Sustainability

We have created our sustainability strategy as a team with a view to it becoming a central pillar of our thinking as our business evolves. Our strategy involves the consistent use of environmentally friendly materials, responsible sourcing, better estimations to allow more accurate material purchasing, reduce waste, more joined-up, sustainable travel and community engagement.

Our sustainable vision

To design, build and maintain sustainable, fun, safe and adventurous places that inspire the next generation to value and protect our planet.

The four commitments

– We are committed to reaching Net Zero by 2040, with some significant interim steps to get us there.

– We will better understand our materials and construction practices and work with our suppliers to identify and utilise more sustainable materials.

– We shall minimise our environmental impact across all operations through smart design, more joined-up travel planning and reducing or removing the carbon impact of our travel wherever possible.

– We will work hard on our community engagement and social impacts to leave the areas we work in, slightly better than when we arrived.

Net Zero by 2040

We have committed to reach net Zero by 2040 if not before. To some, this sounds like years away and obviously too easy. We could take the simple route, change nothing and just pay our carbon offset penance.

But that isn’t our way and it never will be.

So, we have chosen to do it the hard and honest way.

By working our way through every one of our carbon outputs and trying to find ways to reduce them. We had already made some small steps by switching to 100% renewable energy in our workshop unit. We’d also agreed to invest in new AV equipment to make it far easier for those who live away to join board meetings and other important get-togethers remotely. This alone we estimate will save some serious CO2 tonnage. But we DO still have to make site visits and somehow we have to find ways of reducing their CO2 impact.

And there will be many more small steps to take.  We will aim to work with our suppliers, our clients and our team to look for incremental improvements and the occasional huge leap forward.

We will report our progress on this page.

Baseline Carbon Summary

As you can see here, these reports hide a multitude of sins, but it is already apparent that our biggest issue is our supply chain, the materials we build with and our travel.

Carbon Emissions Breakdown 2023

As above, Scope Three is where the work is needed. We have made some progress on this already and briefed it through the team.

Working closely with Suppliers

We have implemented changes to enable us to reach net zero by 2040 and make some chunky incremental improvements in the meantime too.  Our first steps have included the following changes to processes or policies.

Supplier Code of Conduct

We want to ensure that the companies we work with are genuine partners that we trust and whose business aligns with our values. You can see that here.

Sustainable Procurement Policy

This documents how we buy and what we’re looking for in a supply partner. You can read that here.