Progress, Not Promises
Targets only matter if they’re backed by action. Across our sites, offices and fleet, we’re making real, measurable progress, and we’re proud to share it.
Helping our clients cut carbon too
Our biggest impact comes through the buildings we deliver. Through decarbonisation, retrofit, heat pumps, solar PV and fabric-first upgrades, our businesses help clients reduce carbon across their estates. We also build new homes to Passivhaus standard.
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Carbon out, value in
Seddon looks for carbon savings across a building’s whole life, from the first conversations about a project, through construction, to aftercare and how the building performs once it’s in use. We work alongside our clients as partners, so cutting carbon goes hand in hand with better value, smoother programmes and less disruption for building users and neighbours.
A project’s biggest savings often come from getting involved early, before the design is fixed, when we can shape materials, methods and design to deliver what our clients and communities need with fewer resources and less carbon. Where we join a project later, our site teams still find savings, from innovative construction methods to reusing materials, and from sourcing locally and sharing transport.
We work out every saving using the Government’s published carbon factors, so clients can use our figures in their own reporting.
We’ve also started carrying out whole-life carbon assessments in-house, to BS EN 15978, the recognised standard, and we’re building this into how we support clients from early design.
We’re building a library of sustainability case studies across our sectors and regions, so clients can see the savings on projects like theirs.
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Greener site set-up
Site power, plant vehicles and welfare cabins are some of the main sources of fuel use on our sites. Through our Net Zero Heroes’ Green Site Set-Up work, our site, plant and sustainability teams find the right lower-carbon set-up for each project, balancing carbon, cost and practicality.
That starts with planning for an early grid connection and choosing well-insulated welfare cabins that need less energy to heat. Where a site can’t connect straight away, we use lower-carbon fuels such as HVO, and we’re trialling battery storage more widely on sites where the conditions suit it.
