Developer Grosvenor has launched a scheme to help SME suppliers, including contractors, surveyors and architects, reach net zero emissions.
The free programme, called the Net Zero Mentoring Programme, will allow 38 SME suppliers to start a path to a science-based target (SBT) this week.
It is based on Grosvenor’s experience of gaining a validated Science Based Target in 2021. Open to companies with fewer than 500 employees, the scheme will help them map and reduce their own carbon footprint.
Over eight months, companies including Elliott Wood, TFT, Barr Gazetas and Collins Construction will gain support across workshops, clinic sessions and one-to-one mentoring in calculating their baseline, setting an action plan and achieving a validated SBT.
Grosvenor said the 38 SMEs represent 31% of its annual third-party spend in 2021 across a range of industries, including construction and demolition, architecture, engineering, maintenance and building services and marketing.
Under Grosvenor’s net zero pathway, Think Zero, it is committed to reducing emissions across all scopes by at least 52% by 2030. Supply chain emissions accounted for almost 50% of the business’s carbon footprint between 2019 and 2030.
By 2030, the business expects 40% of its supply chain by emissions to have an SBT and, from 2023, does not intend to award contracts over £1m to partners without one.
Victoria Herring, sustainability programme director at Grosvenor, said: “A Our SME partners are incredibly supportive of our environmental ambitions, but resource is often a barrier to their own progress. This first-of-its-kind scheme will help us all accelerate our ability to take effective climate action and support greener, healthier places and lives.”
SMEs participating in Grosvenor’s programme include:
| ATKT II Barr Gazetas Blenheim House Construction Buckley Gray Yeoman Collins Construction Edward Pearce Elliott Wood Partnership Environmental Dimension Partnership Exigere Four Communications Gaysha GDM GRA Architecture and Interiors Grangewood Builders HPM ISS UK Jackson Coles John F Hunt | Knight Harwood Knight Security Group Leslie Clark Construction Consultants Mason Navarro Pledge Morgan Spencer Murray Birrell Opera P J Harte Pi Group Reyooz SW Bruce & CO Taylor Project Services TF Architecture The Lift Consultancy Thompson Cole Trident Building Consultancy Tuffin Ferraby Taylor Useful Studio |
