Climate Change Data

Brickability Group PLC

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022, 2023-04 to 2024-03)

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:2,232.684 tCO2e (2019/20); 1,500 tCO2e (2021 estimate for McCann Logistics)
Scope 1 Emissions:2162.304 tCO2e (2019/20)
Scope 2 Emissions:70.380 tCO2e (2019/20)

ESG Focus Areas

  • Decarbonisation
  • Resource Use & Management
  • Responsible Procurement
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Wellbeing
  • Health & Safety
  • Community Engagement
  • Supply Chain Sustainability
  • Good Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Held employee sustainability workshops and recruited over 50 ‘Environmental Champions’
  • Embedded energy, resource and waste measurement processes
  • Measured Scope 1 & 2 emissions and begun to measure Scope 3
  • Began the transition to fully renewable energy
  • Acquired renewable energy specialists, UPOWA
  • Installing EV chargers and solar panels on buildings
  • Launched a new electric car policy
  • New recycling facilities in all offices, warehouses and factories
  • Began removing single-use plastic from workplaces, events and product packaging
  • Removed 1,260m2 of bubble wrap in four months by using a cardboard shredder

Social Achievements

  • Began a review of all group reward and recognition policies
  • Relaunched cycle-to-work scheme and begun rolling out weekly fruit box delivery
  • Completed DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) and gender pay gap analysis
  • Begun rollout of modern slavery training
  • Launched the Brickability Group Foundation Trust (0.5% profit donation)
  • Inspired teams to take action personally to raise money and volunteer
  • Monthly food bank collections
  • Marathon runs and planned future fundraising events
  • Allotment clubs planned
  • Hampers sent to Single Parents Support and Advice Services
  • Working with London First to support employment of Ukrainian refugees

Governance Achievements

  • Following the QCA Corporate Governance Code 2018
  • Regularly review policies and practices
  • Board focus on ESG leadership, values, investments, future-proofing, and TCFD reporting

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Establish route to net zero for entire Group (freight, products, manufacturing)
Medium-term Goals:
  • Carbon net zero in own operations of sales businesses by 2030
Short-term Goals:
  • Develop a set of values reflecting Group’s diversity
  • Deepen understanding through carbon and other data
  • Refine strategy and set milestones and targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Securing data for Scope 3 emissions
  • Understanding embodied carbon in products
  • Historically male-dominated industry impacting gender diversity
  • Missing data in diversity data collection for some acquisitions
Mitigation Strategies
  • Designed and embedded measurement processes in all Group businesses
  • Working across the supply chain to understand embodied carbon
  • Initiatives to increase female participation at senior levels, including NED female appointments
  • Apprentice schemes, diversity training, group HR function, role banding, and transparent bonus scheme
  • Systems now in place for comprehensive diversity data collection in 2023

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Work to understand and manage risk in the supply chain, including zero modern slavery and no deforested timber
  • Build expertise in supply chain management and create partnerships to drive change

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Opportunities
  • Acquiring and developing new businesses, products and services facing into the low carbon economy

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard

Reporting Period: 2023-04 to 2024-03

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:4,294.8 tCO2e/year
Scope 1 Emissions:4,041.8 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:253.0 tCO2e/year
Renewable Energy Share:50% of meters use renewable energy
Total Energy Consumption:13,546,442.4 kWh/year
Carbon Intensity:7.23 tonnes of CO2e per £m of Revenue

ESG Focus Areas

  • Decarbonisation
  • Responsible Procurement
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Wellbeing
  • Health & Safety
  • Community Investment
  • Governance

Environmental Achievements

  • Completed a full carbon measurement of all Scope 1 and 2 emissions; energy and emissions decreased, predominantly through increased use of electric cars.
  • 57% of car fleet is now electric.
  • Over half of owned premises purchase some renewable energy.
  • Made good progress to improve transparency and understand waste across businesses.

Social Achievements

  • Launched Employee Assistance Scheme.
  • Introduced enhanced sickness scheme.
  • Graduation of first sales apprenticeship cohort from Brickability Academy.
  • Donated £230k to good causes.
  • Partnership with Earth Trust and Woodland Trust for tree planting and environmental education.

Governance Achievements

  • Followed the QCA Corporate Governance Code.
  • Will comply with the new QCA Code.
  • Board and leadership changes.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Net Zero Carbon by 2050 across the supply chain.
Medium-term Goals:
  • All owned sites to be powered by renewable energy by 2030.
  • Improve energy efficiency by 15% by 2030.
Short-term Goals:
  • Net-zero carbon emissions in sales operations by 2030.

Environmental Challenges

  • Challenging macroeconomic conditions, including uncertainty around inflationary pressures and high interest rates.
  • Talent retention.
  • Margin management.
  • Maintaining customer relationships.
  • Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).
  • Extreme weather.
  • Failure to integrate key acquisitions.
  • Cyber & Information security.
  • Sustainability & Climate Change.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Close monitoring of core markets and relationships with customers and suppliers.
  • Robust debtor control and working capital monitoring.
  • Prudent expansion of geographical presence and business diversity.
  • Active promotion of internal recruitment and training.
  • Review of remuneration policies.
  • Regular review and monitoring of margins and pricing.
  • Securing fixed pricing with key trading partners.
  • Diversification of products and services.
  • Continuous review of acquisition integration processes.
  • Recovery plans and up-to-date cyber protection.
  • Ongoing training on cyber security risks.
  • Implementation of sustainability initiatives and data collection/reporting.
  • Checks on suppliers to ensure high standards.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement
  • Training on modern slavery.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Extreme weather events
Transition Risks
  • Carbon pricing legislation
  • Emerging legislation impacting product availability and costs
  • Legislative changes impacting housing specifications
  • Potential unavailability of gas
  • Market shift towards retrofitting
Opportunities
  • Development of renewable energy technology products
  • Development of low-carbon products

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: TCFD

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Air Source Heat Pump Cylinder
  • Lowie eco-brick
  • Envirotile

Awards & Recognition

  • Timber Trade of the Year
  • Softwood Trade: Importer of the Year