Glencar Launches 2025 Carbon Reduction Plan to Drive Net Zero Construction and Sustainability Goals.

Contractors play a key role in delivering sustainable buildings. Glencar strives to stay ahead of the curve in this regard, and we are passionate about our ability to influence change within the industry and share our learnings with customers and stakeholders. As part of our continued commitment to reducing carbon emissions and meeting our Net Zero carbon targets, Glencar has made public the strategy that builds on our existing approach to reducing Scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions via the Carbon Reduction Plan.

Glencar’s approach to carbon reduction is centred around being a responsible business. The key themes of our plan include:

• Delivering sustainable and low-carbon buildings.
• Driving responsible procurement across a sustainable supply chain.
• Reducing waste and enabling circular economy principles.
• Enhancing operational efficiency across construction sites.
• Embedding sustainability in corporate activities and culture.

The Carbon Reduction Plan outlines our current carbon emissions and the work done to date to reduce them, including mandating HVO across our construction sites, eliminating fossil fuels in our offices, and certifying with Planet Mark. The document builds on our existing strategy to become Net Zero for Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2025 and Scope 3 by 2045 and establishes a roadmap to maintaining this status in the years to come.

The plan emphasises the extensive work required to lower our Scope 3 emissions in line with our Net Zero carbon target by 2045. It proposes a number of workstreams to reduce our construction impacts by minimising embodied carbon. This will be done through supply chain collaboration by prioritising low carbon materials, reducing transport emissions and onsite resource use and waste through trialling new technologies. Furthermore, Glencar acknowledges that to bridge the gap in carbon literacy, efforts need to be made to increase supply chain awareness, integrate behaviour change, and maintain continuous industry engagement and collaboration.

To deliver the plan, we placed the key milestones on our Net Zero Carbon Delivery Roadmap, which informs the steps we need to take for Glencar to be Net Zero carbon by 2045. As part of the journey, we will set out interim targets for Scope 3, including limits for upfront carbon in line with the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard across our construction projects. We are confident that by addressing and reducing upfront carbon in a phased approach will enable us to reduce our emissions across each Scope 3 category.