Climate Change Data

Keepmoat

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2022, 2023-2030)

Reporting Period: 2022

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:4,596 tCO2e/year
Scope 1 Emissions:3,711 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:247 tCO2e/year
Scope 3 Emissions:303,788 tCO2e/year
Total Energy Consumption:20,165 MWh/year
Water Consumption:83.7 liters per person per day
Waste Generated:23,982 tons/year
Carbon Intensity:1.42 tonnes CO2e per 100m² (2022); 1.46 (2021)

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate Change
  • Biodiversity
  • Social Value
  • Supply Chain Sustainability
  • Building Safety
  • Health and Safety
  • Employee Wellbeing
  • Diversity and Inclusion

Environmental Achievements

  • Reduced direct operations carbon emissions by 2.7% to 1.42 tonnes per 100m² of build area.
  • Saved 1,332 tonnes of carbon in homes built using low-carbon bricks.
  • Diverted 99% of construction waste from landfill.
  • Used 4.5 million low-carbon bricks, producing 50% less carbon during manufacture.

Social Achievements

  • Launched a Social Value and Community Benefits framework.
  • Supported local suppliers with £263.3m worth of contracts, generating £229.3m of social value.
  • Opened a Bricklaying Training Hub in partnership with NHBC.
  • Maintained 5-star builder status in the HBF Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Governance Achievements

  • Signed the DLUHC Building Safety Pledge.
  • Established an Executive Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Committee.
  • Achieved Gold H&S Award by RoSPA.
  • Retained Investors in People accreditation.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Net zero emissions by 2050

Environmental Challenges

  • External economic factors (macroeconomic environment changes, political instability, house price inflation, interest rates, unemployment, mortgage availability, government housing policy, infectious diseases, geopolitical impacts).
  • Build costs and availability of resources (labor and material shortages).
  • Supply chain disruptions (Ukraine conflict, COVID-19, semiconductor shortage, high energy costs, inflation).
Mitigation Strategies
  • Strong partner relationships and multi-tenure delivery model.
  • Monitoring of Government policy and business KPIs.
  • Appropriate capital structure and balance sheet control.
  • Strategic supply agreements with major material suppliers.
  • Broad sub-contractor base.
  • Regular contact with suppliers to ensure continuity of supply.
  • KPI monitoring of supply chain partners.
  • Partnership with Supply Chain Sustainability School.
  • Partnership with Achilles BuildingConfidence Network.

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: 100% of timber suppliers have FSC or PEFC Chain of Custody certification; 94% of supplier and subcontract spend is with externally accredited organisations.

Responsible Procurement
  • Sustainable procurement policy
  • Strategic framework agreements with suppliers
  • Use of low-carbon materials (bricks, asphalt)

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Extreme weather events (droughts, floods)
  • Dust and silt pollution
Transition Risks
  • Regulatory changes (Building Regulations, Future Homes Standard)
  • Market shifts (consumer demand, energy prices)
Opportunities
  • Development of energy-efficient products and technologies

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

Certifications: ISO 45001:2018 (Safety Management), ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management), ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management), Social Value Management Certificate Level 1 from Social Value International

Third-party Assurance: Action Sustainability

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Energy-efficient homes (EPC rating A or B)
  • Homes designed to meet Future Homes Standard

Awards & Recognition

  • Gold H&S Award by RoSPA
  • Gold member of the 5% Club

Reporting Period: 2023-2030

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Engaging communities
  • Social value
  • Workforce skills and availability
  • Fairness, inclusion and respect
  • Health, safety and wellbeing
  • Local economic value
  • Homeownership
  • Multi-tenure homes
  • Quality
  • Nature
  • Healthy living places
  • Transport links
  • Weather resilient places
  • Low carbon / active travel
  • Community energy generation
  • Careful use of nature’s resources
  • Low carbon homes
  • Air quality
  • Quality (assurance)
  • Safety, health
  • Climate change impacts on construction
  • Waste management
  • Carbon impacts in construction
  • Innovative design, materials and construction

Governance Achievements

  • Governance structures were changed to better represent sustainability in 2022.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • All new homes designed to be net zero carbon in use
  • Carbon neutral construction operations for all new construction sites (scope 1 and 2)
Medium-term Goals:
  • Carbon neutral construction operations for all new construction sites (scope 1 and 2)
  • Refine engagement guide
  • Create framework for ensuring every new development is net social positive with a methodology for measurement
  • Review what a being a purpose-driven business would mean for Keepmoat, including consideration of B-Corp and self-assessing against B-Corp criteria
  • Declare that we are a purpose-driven business on a sound basis of evidence and robust external backup
  • Develop and measure a KPI(s) through which ‘affordability’ (referring to open market sale) of products sold can be clearly demonstrated
  • Review financial sustainability implications of an affordability target for the business
  • Review consequences of potential changes to HBF satisfaction survey including 9-month survey
  • Engage customers on satisfaction implications of Future Homes Standard range as built (using a pilot development)
  • Review processes and training based on the findings of the Future Homes Standard satisfaction research
  • Set a minimum internal standard for public transport access for all new land purchase approvals
  • Develop a methodology for measuring placemaking quality through a KPI
  • Review Keepmoat design guidance for climate change resilience taking into account best practice frameworks
  • Integrate findings of design review into Keepmoat design guidance
  • Baseline and set a target for design quality across new developments
  • Partner with Birmingham City University in researching design and build of low carbon homes at our Gedling pilot scheme including on operating behaviour of occupiers
  • Partner with other research institutions in development of the Future Homes Standard
  • Finalise design routes and components choices for the Future Homes Standard
  • Clearly communicate findings of low carbon pilots to inform practice
  • Form a partnership to explore fresh water reduction approaches
  • All new homes designed to be net zero carbon in use
  • Trial advanced water reduction technologies on at least one home
  • Outline our climate-related construction risks (i.e. pollution risk and mitigation costs) in our FY23 Annual Report
  • Hold an educational session on pre-manufactured value for our central technical, commercial, supply chain and sustainability teams with an expert partner to support baselining our housetypes
  • Outline an internal BIM/ Revit roadmap
  • Create a report identifying potential opportunities for increasing pre-manufactured value with our range, and risks. Lay out a roadmap
Short-term Goals:
  • All new homes built to the Future Homes Standard of a 75-80% carbon reduction in use (from a 2013 regulation baseline)
  • Produce an internal report on further opportunities to save water in the specification of our homes
  • Set waste targets to report against for FY25
  • Conduct a scoping exercise on excavation and demolition waste
  • Launch a major internal communications campaign on the issues of waste, diesel and pollution
  • Set science-based carbon reduction targets
  • Develop a short-term onsite diesel reduction plan
  • Model embodied carbon of a typical product
  • Embodied carbon calculations for all housetypes
  • Develop embodied carbon reduction plan with targets
  • Record groundworker diesel consumption data and set targets
  • Minimum carbon reduction standards for groundworkers introduced
  • No more petrol/diesel cars ordered to fleet after 2026
  • Baseline pre-manufactured value through calculating it across our housetypes
  • Integrate pre-manufactured value opportunities within a housetype range review

Environmental Challenges

  • High fuel bills in older, less efficient homes
  • Climate change impacts on construction
  • Waste management in construction
  • Carbon impacts in construction
  • Diesel use in construction
Mitigation Strategies
  • Building all-electric homes with high levels of energy efficiency
  • Produce and implement above-ground construction waste reduction/elimination strategy
  • Develop a long-term carbon reduction roadmap
  • Develop a short-term onsite diesel reduction plan
  • Hybrid generators for all new sites where required

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Climate change impacts on construction

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 7
  • Goal 8
  • Goal 11
  • Goal 12
  • Goal 13
  • Goal 15

Keepmoat will contribute by building all-electric homes with high levels of energy efficiency at prices within reach. Goal 8 is not only about providing good quality work, but providing opportunities for all through the right kind of economic growth. Keepmoat will contribute by spending with local businesses, providing opportunities for disadvantaged groups and working towards decoupling growth from environmental harm. We will build quality homes in great places, taking communities along with us on that journey. Construction is resource-heavy and is (with excavation and demolition) responsible for over 60% of all UK waste*. We can play a meaningful role in reducing that proportion. It is also about ensuring that places are resilient to the climate change that is set to occur. Keepmoat can play an important role in both of these aspects from the way we build, to the places we design. Through sensitive design and building practices and through careful sourcing choices we can limit harmful impacts on nature and even create new spaces which allow nature to thrive.