Sustainability/ EPD’s

Working collaboratively with our longstanding supplier, GO Power Ltd, we have established a 100% certified green electricity supply across our Northern Ireland footprint, complementing our UK sites which commenced a green supply in January 2025.

Creagh consumes over 6 million units of electricity each year, and with business growth coupled with increased technology and automation, electricity demand will increase. Decarbonising energy supplies requires strategic commitment and planning. Given the diverse nature of Creagh, we aim to make tactical decisions early in our roadmap to consistently eliminate large portions of carbon emissions.

We are excited to announce this major strategic sustainability improvement measured through our Net Zero Roadmap Pathway.

Creagh’s Net Zero Roadmap requires an absolute reduction of 30% carbon emissions, or 3447 tonnes from its 2019 base year, by 2029.

At the end of 2024, which included the Norman Emerson Group acquisition, Creagh achieved an absolute reduction of 841 tonnes of carbon. With the total electricity supply now converted to a green tariff, the company removes an additional 1,305 tonnes, totalling 2,146 tonnes, or 62.3% of Creagh’s 2029 target from the 2019 base year to eliminate carbon from Creagh’s carbon inventory.

This exciting step, early in the 2^nd milestone of our Net Zero Roadmap, illustrates Creagh’s commitment to ‘Paving its Roadmap’ in this important aspect of the construction sector.

The carbon avoided by a green tariff is 1,305 tonnes, equivalent to an average petrol car driving 3,320,260 miles. This means we could send a car to the moon 6.5 times

Sisk has successfully completed testing of a new low-carbon concrete technology at its Wembley Park redevelopment project, demonstrating carbon savings of over 70% compared to standard concrete. The testing forms part of a wider initiative to decarbonise concrete, which is a major contributor to global emissions, accounting for nearly 8% of CO2 production annually.

Sisk collaborated with a consortium of experts, including Ecocem, Ramboll, Loughborough University, Creagh Concrete, Capital Concrete, and BRE Group, to carry out the testing. Innovate UK is also supporting the project as part of its initiative to accelerate the adoption of low-carbon solutions in construction.

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Creagh Concrete Ltd have entered the second phase of its Net Zero Roadmap 2025-2029

Resulting from internal decarbonization analysis Creagh have from January 1^st 2025 switched two large factories within the group to a certified Green electricity supply. One based in Newbridge Industrial Estate, Scotland, and our second facility is in Hoveringham, Nottingham.

This now totals three sites operating on Green supplies totaling 1.63 million kwhs of electricity annually.

Enough electricity to charge almost 10,000 electric cars for 1 year.

This equates to 337 total of carbon removed from the atmosphere annually.

This strategic objective generates direct and indirect benefits to our planet and society

Direct Benefits:

1. Removing 337 tons of Carbon equates to 858,951 miles driven by a petrol car for 1 year
2. Clean Air. Green electricity does not create particulates responsible for respiratory ailments

Indirect Benefits:

3. Investment in Green supply stimulates the Green energy market, including new jobs and skills with apprenticeships in this green growth sector

This exciting start to the year springboards Creagh’s Net Zero Roadmap into its second phase

Through a dedicated Predictive Maintenance Programme our site engineers invested in a high efficiency air compressor deployed in our stairs manufacturing facility at our Toome Site.

The air compressor was installed with optimal design characteristics in mind, during the scoping stage the internal engineering team determined how to produce maximum energy from the compressor and utilise resulting heat which is a by- product of compressing air.

As cold air is denser than warm air it requires less energy to compress, it was important to ensure intake air was drawn from outside the manufacturing building avoiding warm air, the team ducted the air intake manifold to an exterior wall to achieve the objective. Given the production facility requires heat to expedite the cement curing process the heat byproduct was directed internally thereby supplementing the heating systems used in the manufacturing processes.

Over the Company’s 50 year history strategic investment has positioned the business in an optimal ‘Vertically Integrated’ position, as such the Company owns and operates several Quarries, enabling Creagh’s strict Policy  criteria for Responsible Aggregates Sourcing, such as high quality sand and gravel. These aggregates are all sourced within a 25 mile radius of the main product facility at Toome, Co Antrim, thereby eliminating significant transport miles compared with competitors, importantly delivering lower embedded carbon build choice for Creagh’s valued customers who continue to push the boundaries on the Sustainable Build Environment.

Heavy plant investment: Loading Shovel replacement for Higher Fuel Efficient model reducing fuel demand, resulting in much lower activity related Carbon emissions.

Through a dedicated Predictive Maintenance Programme our site engineers optimised absorbed power from our electricity supply by replacing deteriorating Capacitors this optimised power usage by 8% reducing the total power required from the national Grid  resulting lower carbon emissions.

As part of Creagh’s drive towards Net Zero Carbon Emissions the company continuously adapts to global and national influences and evidenced based Science.

Phase 1 of this project contributing to our Net Zero Goals we have introduced electric charging at our largest site enabling charging during working hours.

The company has elected to provide access to the charging points to the Public encouraging uptake of hybrid and EV vehicles.

Publicly available fast charge stations will be Phase 11 of this project  located at our facility adjacent to a major traffic route outside the village of Toome.

By allocating space within our facility we are supporting & encouraging our employees, and the wider Public with the transition to the low carbon transport mandated by Government Policy.

As part of Creagh Concrete’s drive towards Net Zero Carbon emissions,

the company continuously invest in People & Processes to continuously improve how we conduct business.

A major sustainability result emerged from the Continuous Improvement programme embedded within the Technical Director, Mark Magill’s function.

From 2017 to 2023, under Mark’s leadership and with the help of the team, they eliminated 3,848.2 tonnes of steel mesh from our Spantherm® product lines.

Since Mark approved the design update, the company has avoided 7,202 metric tons of carbon from its Spantherm product line.

7,202 metric tons of carbon is equal to 810,429 gallons of petrol used.

Transport emissions contributed more than 92 metric tons because deliveries were not necessary for these product lines. This meant that delivery trucks did not cover 74,499 miles throughout the period.

The operation also removed waste offcuts from the steel mesh. While 100% of our metal is recycled, it is true that ‘the greenest steel is the steel you do not use’.

This innovation is part of Creagh’s commitment to decarbonising the built environment, as stated through Creagh’s Net Zero Roadmap.