CARBON PLAN

The Climate Pledge is the call to businesses and organisations around the world to take collective action and build towards a safe and healthy plan for future generations. Mackenzie Construction have recognised the importance of carbon reduction for our business, our clients and the Scottish Government and steps to move towards our Net Zero goals are already underway.

To meet our targets, we shall be taking a step-by-step approach with all everyone involved in their part of this reduction plan, from small changes like paperless processes to big changes like moving to an electric or hybrid vehicle fleet.

As a civil engineering business our largest carbon impact is from the fuel used across our vehicle fleet, company cars, employees’ own vehicles and site plant. To address this, we have implemented use of HVO fuel on site and we are investigating incentivising staff to change to electric vehicles.

We have scoped three phases to focus on in our Carbon Plan:

• Scope one focusses on where most of our carbon is expelled (98.8%), our vehicle fleet. We will be looking at our hired vehicles, company cars, contract staff vehicles and site plant.

• Scope two addresses the energy suppliers for our office and our sites which currently accounts for 1.1% of our carbon emissions. In spring 2024, our head office will automatically move to a green tariff and our Green Site approach will consider transferring all temporary and permanent energy sources to renewable sources at our sites.

• Scope three will look at the remaining 0.1% of emissions which covers a wide area of elements from waste, business travel, supply chain and digital services. Scope three has been included to ensure we step up and increase reporting year on year as we identify areas we have perhaps missed.

At Mackenzie Construction we appreciate the words of Greta Thunberg “we have to wake up and change” and this will mean changing our approach to our sites, offices and how we go about our daily lives.

Copies of the plan can be requested from requested from Mark.Wilson@mackenzieconstruction.com.