Sustainable Development Review 2021

Being a leader in sustainable development

Welcome to our 2021 Sustainable Development Review. This publication shows the progress we made in 2020 in the delivery of our 2013-2020 Sustainable Development Strategy, which supports our ambition of being a leader in sustainable development.

Welcome to our 2021 Sustainable Development Review

Rick Willmott, Group Chief Executive

It's Now or Never - are you with us?

Julia Barrett, Chief Sustainability Officer

Now or Never. Our decisive decade.

2020 year in brief

Level 3

First in our sector to achieve Level 3 of the Carbon Trust’s Supply Chain Standard

66%

reduction in carbon emissions intensity since 2010 – exceeding our 50% target three years early

£28m

worth of social return on investment in addition to the amount we spent on goods and services in local communities

100%

natural renewable electricity powered all our sites and offices (where we are responsible for energy procurement)

£1.07m

The value of our people’s time, skills, donations and gifts-in-kind, through the Willmott Dixon Foundation

99%

non-hazardous construction waste diverted from landfill

Carbon neutral

Since 2012

Our 2020 performance

We launched our 2013-2020 Sustainable Development Strategy, Transforming Tomorrow, in 2013, and reviewed and updated it in 2017. By the end of 2020, we had either achieved or were on track to achieve nearly all of the Strategy’s actions and targets.

This section of the Review provides an update on our 2020 performance.

Building Lives

Supporting our people, our communities and our supply chain

Change makers

Adapting to a changing world

Better Planet

Reducing the environmental impact of our operations

Verification and accreditation

We have robust systems in place to challenge and drive our performance, ensuring that what we report is honest and accurate

Brilliant Buildings

Exemplar projects we worked on in 2020

Industry leadership