Sustainability
Sustainability
Our Low Carbon Mission
The built environment contributes up to 15% of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and up to 50% of waste to landfill. We want to lead the way in reducing those numbers to zero and have developed a plan to do this: Our Low Carbon Mission. As a result, we have become one of New Zealand’s first net carbon-zero certified building contractors.
At the same time, we don’t want to stop there; we aim to become the leader in low-carbon construction whilst providing our clients with the highest quality construction to the LT McGuinness standard.
Our Low Carbon Mission has three pillars:
- reducing our carbon footprint to zero
- building with lower embodied carbon and less waste, and
- partnering with our clients towards a low-carbon future.
The plan addresses our direct impact and significant positive improvements through using lower embodied carbon materials and construction methods, and passing on this experience to our clients and construction partners.
TOITŪ / NEOCRETE
We do not see offsetting as the end of the road; however, the offsets do help reduce our impact in the short term, especially in areas where the market and technology have not yet caught up with our needs.
The audits found that the biggest contributors were our vehicle fleet, air travel and our electricity use. To reduce these we have set policies and we are constantly looking at other areas where we can improve.