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Our approach to environmental sustainability reflects our role in tackling the interconnected global crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity. This informs how we design and manufacture our products, and how we work with our partners.
We focus on the areas where we can have the greatest impact: decarbonisation, resource conservation and biodiversity promotion.
To achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, we focus on four areas:
Fuel switching – moving away from traditional fossil-fuel based energy sources, to renewable energy sources.
Optimising raw materials – reducing the carbon intensity of the materials that we use to manufacture building products.
Developing new products and services – adding low-carbon impact products to our portfolio, and supplementing these with services to support others reduce their carbon emissions and/or adapt to climate change.
Pursuing energy efficiency – searching for opportunities to reduce our energy consumption per manufacturing unit.
Our approach to resource conservation goes beyond efficient use of materials. We are working towards adopting circular business practices, where waste is designed out and resources are kept in use for as long as possible.
Our efforts to conserve resources span raw material selection, water efficiency, waste prevention, product design and packaging, with a commitment to continuous improvement.
Our operations rely on and impact upon nature. By minimising our impact and actively promoting biodiversity, we can help halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
We are adopting a nature-positive approach: enhancing habitats across our land, considering the biodiversity impacts in our supply chains, enhancing the wellbeing of our people via access to green spaces at work, building partnerships and sharing data, and providing construction products that support birds, insects and bats to thrive within our built environment.
Explore the core themes of our biodiversity strategy below:
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