9 December 2020: Construction Index reports that “Landowner Grosvenor Britain & Ireland is set to spend £90m on revamping its historic London estate in a bid to become net zero carbon by 2030. Measures set out in Grosvenor’s new sustainability strategy including replacing gas boilers in 55 properties with renewable energy sources and not letting any diesel, petrol or even hybrid vehicles deliver to any of its properties.” Read the full article here. Further information on the Grosvenor website here and their new ‘Think Zero‘ sustainability strategy can be downloaded here (direct here).
The three major levers for change have been identified as:
- Reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from our historic London estate in Mayfair and Belgravia by over 70%
- Reducing embodied carbon in construction projects to a maximum of 500kgCO2e/m2 from 2025 and developing buildings that are operationally net zero.
- Reducing the carbon emissions from our supply chain