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SUSTAINABILITY


TRAVIS PERKINS PLC CONFIRMS DECARBONISED PROGRESS


The UK’s biggest builders merchant, Travis Perkins has announced its latest progress on its carbon reduction targets.


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arlier this year, the Group confirmed that efforts are focused on ensuring the Group is at the forefront of driving sustainability across both its own operations and the supply chain. Among the areas being targeted are ensuring that employees have the right skills to help their customers make more sustainable choices, improved carbon data for customer deliveries, accelerated decarbonisation of the Group’s fleet and buildings, and the development of more sustainable products and services.


Upskilling of colleagues Travis Perkins has evolved its Apprenticeship offering via LEAP by incorporating ESG into the core curriculum. Ensuring that all apprentices cover this topic area will help build a workforce for the future that is better equipped to meet the skills shortage and decarbonisation challenges faced by the business and the industry more widely The Group is also working with The Retrofit Academy; a not for profit organisation, to develop the expertise required to deliver high- quality retrofit at scale. Customer teams from Travis Perkins Managed Services, CCF and support functions have completed their level 2 Understanding Retrofit qualification. Improved carbon data for customer deliveries


Travis Perkins’ specialist insulation, drywall and ceiling product distributor, CCF, has launched a new carbon reporting trial service for customers. This provides information on the carbon emissions relating to the delivery of products to site. As soon as trusted data is available, this reporting solution will also incorporate the embodied carbon of products in order to give insight and transparency to customers, and enable customers and end users to make better informed decarbonisation choices.


The use of HVO as a low carbon fuel in fleet vehicles has continued to expand. Following last year’s successful trial, which resulted in higher carbon savings than anticipated (92%


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where solar panels, electric forklift trucks, EV charging points and a heat pump are helping to keep the carbon footprint of the branch to a minimum.


Development of more sustainable products and services for customers


vs 90%) in the Group’s Travis Perkins, Keyline, BSS and CCF businesses, HVO has now been expanded to 40 sites to supply over 240 vehicles, saving over 1.3m litres of diesel per annum.


The group is also starting to take delivery of its new electric forklift trucks as part of Project Switch, which will see up to 1,100 diesel powered forklift trucks replaced with electric alternatives by mid 2024.


Accelerated decarbonisation As part of a new initiative, Travis Perkins plc has installed EV chargers for colleagues and visitors, and continued its LED roll out programme across its branch network. It has also identified key locations to test a range of low carbon technologies, such as air source heat pumps and solar panels. This new technology is then rolled out to all new branches, such as the recently opened Travis Perkins branch in Witney, Oxfordshire,


The Travis Perkins merchant business has launched WholeHouse; a new digital platform, which simplifies the traditionally complex process of planning, costing and building new homes at the click of a button. This service aims to help customers navigate an increasingly complex construction landscape with new legislation and decarbonisation targets, and to build better, more sustainable homes quickly and safely, but still keep control over the creative design elements and save time and money.


Group director of sustainability, Megan Adlen, said: “We are committed to supporting customers with the information, products and services they need to help modernise and decarbonise construction. “As we continue to demonstrate, that means working relentlessly on their behalf to improve the data we collate and provide, including embodied carbon and recycled content, and with colleagues to upskill our knowledge, and with customers and suppliers to collaborate on products and solutions to meet the industry’s shared ESG challenges. We are encouraged by the progress we have made and, given the scale and urgency of the climate change challenge we all face, we remain determined to accelerate the delivery of our decarbonisation plans at pace . BMJ


www.buildersmerchantsjournal.net August 2023


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