SUSTAINABILITY
BMJ: What is Aggregate Industries currently doing to push the sustainability agenda?
Anna Baker: Our mission is to make sustainable construction a reality and so sustainability is integral to our success as an organisation. We know it is an area that gives purpose to our people as it is the thing we can all contribute towards, to do the right thing and make a differ-ence.
We recognise our impact has the potential to be significant and know we can deliver the greatest capacity and agency in the areas of Decarbonisation, Circularity and Nature. We’re committed to decarbonising our operations, growing our offering in making new prod-ucts from old and through our most recently launched Nature Strategy we’re on a mission to contribute towards a Nature Positive future.
Our latest annual report shows us very much in the ’doing phase’ – working hard to deliver against our commitments. Three of our main measurable goals include:
1.Becoming a Net Zero Organisation by 2050 – our Net Zero strategy launched in 2023 identified the 5 key workstreams that we are focusing on to tackle this. 2. 40% + of our turnover to come from sustainable products by 2030. With our products, we are continuously innovating, developing low-carbon construction materials such as ECOPact, ECOPlanet and ECOCycle. 3.We’ll contribute towards a Nature Positive Future by 2030 – Our nature strategy launched in Sept 2024 outlines three work streams that we are focusing on to tackle this.
BMJ: How is Aggregate Industries changing its processes to improve sustainability? AB: We know that when we have great people who share and believe in a collective purpose that the performance that can be transformative.
We’ve tried to concentrate our efforts in areas where we can make the biggest impact and ensure that our people connect with those and understand how their role contributes to ‘mov-ing the needle’.
Our Net Zero Strategy, which follows a science based targets approach, focuses around 5 key areas – renewable energy, alternative materials, low carbon fuels energy demand and efficiency and carbon capture, utilisation and storage. Our latest annual report shows we are on track to meet our near term 2025 Scope 1 and 2 carbon targets. 2023 saw a 7% reduction against our emissions intensity, our lowest to date, of 17.4 kgCO2e/T. Our solar power gen-eration
TOWARDS NET ZERO
Making moves towards a fully sustainable business model has to be part of any modern building materials supply business, as BMJ finds out from Aggregate Industries sustainability director Anna Baker.
Delivering innovative and sustainable building solutions is good for business as well as the planet. Not to mention the boost we get as an organisation from improved environmental per-formance and enhanced brand reputation. A strong sustainable performance also makes us a more resilient and an attractive organisation for the next generation of talent and future in-vestors alike.
across our estates continues to progress along with the roll out of our electric vehi-cles and low carbon fuels. Our involvement in the transformative Peak Cluster Carbon cap-ture and storage project also continues. As part of our circularity efforts we double the amount of construction demolition materials (CDM) we reclaimed in 2023 to 1.5m tonnes. We have built our capacity to further increase CDM use in building new products from old with significant acquisitions such as Sivyer and Land Recovery to our portfolio. Our Nature Strategy sets a number of clear performance indicators from now to 2026. It fol-lows a science-based approach, and builds from the develop and successful roll out of our Biodiversity Indicator Reporting System (BIRS) in 2023. The Nature strategy also goes be-yond just our direct impacts as we look to advocate for nature across our supply chain as well as reduce or negative impact and restore, renew and enhance our sites.
BMJ: What difference has it made to the company? AB: Putting sustainability at the core of our values has given clarity of purpose for our people, our customers and supply chain. We know that there is an increasing demand and con-sciousness on the impact of the built environment and our customers are looking for solu-tions to help them solve their sustainability commitments.
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BMJ: What has Aggregate Industries been doing that will be of sustainable benefit? AB: We’re committed to providing customers with sustainable products and solutions which support delivery of their sustainability ambitions without compromising on quality or perfor-mance.
We created ‘your carbon report’ - a report that provides accurate carbon data from across our product ranges. This can be split down by project, customer account and manufacturing plant. Alongside your carbon report we can work in partnership with customers to identify op-portunities to lower the carbon footprint further.
Our Environmental Product Declaration (EPDs) also continues to grow with our ready- mix concrete now having independently verified and product and plant specific EPD’s across the London region. EPD’s are third party verified life cycle assessments and until recently were only available as averages or product groups for readymix.
BMJ: What do merchants need to know about what you’re doing? AB: Merchants who work with us should know that we are fully committed to playing our part in enabling the UK to transition to a net zero, support by a circular economy which contrib-utes overall to a nature positive future. If customers are looking for lower carbon products or products with recycled components and they need data to support the decision-making process Aggregate Industries can pro-vide the necessary support to deliver the best solution for them. BMJ
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