1. Commitment to achieving Net Zero
Legacie Contracts Limited is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050.
We have set ourselves a more ambitious internal target date of 2045 — five years ahead of the United Kingdom’s statutory Net Zero deadline under the Climate Change Act 2008 (as amended) — across our full value chain.
This commitment is made at Board level and is owned by our Chief Operating Officer, who is a statutory director of the Company. It applies to all activities, services and works undertaken by Legacie Contracts Limited within the United Kingdom, and the environmental management measures set out in Section 6 of this plan are in effect today and will be applied when performing contracts awarded to us.
Legacie Contracts Limited is a national building contractor working across the public and private sectors. This plan is published on our own website as the bidding entity; it is not a parent-company plan.
2. Baseline emissions footprint
Baseline emissions are a record of the greenhouse gases that were produced prior to the introduction of any strategies to reduce emissions. They are the reference point against which emissions reduction is measured.
Baseline year: FY2024 — 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024.
| Emissions | Reported source | Total (tCO2e) |
|---|---|---|
| Scope 1 | Fuel consumed for own transport | 48.00 |
| Scope 2 | Electricity purchased from the grid (location-based) | 296.00 |
| Scope 3 (included sources) |
Fuel consumed for transport not owned by the Company — business travel in employee-owned and hired vehicles | 8.00 |
| Total emissions | Scope 1 + Scope 2 + reported Scope 3 sources | 352.00 |
Aggregate energy consumption in the baseline year: 1,271,387 kWh. Intensity ratio as reported in the statutory accounts: 3.01 tCO2e per £1m of turnover.
Additional details relating to the baseline emissions calculations
Source of the figures. The emissions and energy figures in this plan are the figures disclosed in Legacie Contracts Limited’s audited statutory accounts, in the Energy and Carbon Report within the Strategic Report, filed at Companies House. The FY2024 figures were approved and authorised by the Board on 29 September 2025; the FY2025 figures were approved and authorised by the Board on 30 June 2026. Both were signed on the Board’s behalf by Gavin Currie, Director. Using the audited and filed figures means every number in this plan can be independently verified against the public register.
Methodology. Emissions are quantified under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard, on a financial-control organisational boundary, using the UK Government (DESNZ) greenhouse gas conversion factors for company reporting. Scope 1 and Scope 2 are reported in accordance with the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) requirements of the Companies (Directors’ Report) and Limited Liability Partnerships (Energy and Carbon Report) Regulations 2018. Scope 2 is reported on a location-based (grid-average) basis. Reporting covers our UK operations; the Company has no overseas operations.
Why FY2024 is the baseline. FY2024 is the first financial year for which Legacie Contracts Limited assessed and reported its greenhouse gas emissions. The FY2024 statutory accounts carry no prior-year comparative because no earlier assessment had been made. In accordance with the Technical Standard, our first reported period is therefore used as the baseline.
Completeness of the baseline year — stated openly
FY2024 was our first year of emissions reporting and its coverage of own-transport and site-plant fuel was less complete than the coverage we achieved in FY2025. Reported Scope 1 emissions and aggregate energy consumption both rose in FY2025 while turnover fell by 29.4%, from £116.1m to £82.0m. That movement is principally the result of materially improved data capture, not of a comparable increase in underlying activity.
We consider it more useful, and more honest, to publish both years exactly as filed and to explain the movement than to present a single favourable year. FY2025 is the first year measured on a materially complete Scope 1 and Scope 2 boundary. Our carbon reduction standard requires the baseline to be formally reviewed where a data-quality improvement moves the baseline-year total by more than 5%; that review is scheduled for the FY2026 refresh of this plan, and any re-basing will be disclosed here together with the restated comparatives.
3. Current emissions reporting
Reporting year: FY2025 — 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025. This is the most recent financial year for which audited statutory accounts have been filed.
| Emissions | Reported source | FY2025 (tCO2e) |
FY2024 baseline |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scope 1 | Fuel consumed for own transport | 304.00 | 48.00 | +256.00 |
| Scope 2 | Electricity purchased from the grid (location-based) | 220.00 | 296.00 | −76.00 |
| Scope 3 (included sources) |
Fuel consumed for transport not owned by the Company | 29.00 | 8.00 | +21.00 |
| Total emissions | Scope 1 + Scope 2 + reported Scope 3 sources | 553.00 | 352.00 | +201.00 |
Aggregate energy consumption in the reporting year: 3,222,843 kWh (FY2024: 1,271,387 kWh). Intensity ratio as reported in the statutory accounts: 6.4 tCO2e per £1m of turnover (FY2024: 3.01). The intensity ratio rose principally because turnover fell 29.4% year on year while measurement coverage improved — a denominator effect combined with a completeness effect, as explained in Section 2.
Scope 3 — sources included, and the sources not yet quantified
The Scope 3 figure reported above covers business travel in vehicles not owned by the Company, which is the Scope 3 source we are required to report under SECR and which is quantified in our audited accounts. We report it here on that same audited basis.
We have not yet completed audited quantification of the full subset of Scope 3 categories described in the Technical Standard for the Completion of Carbon Reduction Plans. The position on each category in that subset is:
| Category | Description | FY2025 position |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Upstream transportation and distribution | Not yet separately quantified. Freight and delivery activity is captured in our procurement system at trade-package level; quantification is being built for FY2026. |
| 5 | Waste generated in operations | Not yet separately quantified. Site waste is measured by stream through waste-carrier records under our site waste management plans; conversion to tCO2e is being built for FY2026. |
| 6 | Business travel | Reported — 29.00 tCO2e (fuel consumed for transport not owned by the Company), as disclosed in the audited accounts. |
| 7 | Employee commuting | Not yet separately quantified. An annual staff commuting survey is being introduced to provide activity data from FY2026. |
| 9 | Downstream transportation and distribution | Not material to our activities. As a building contractor we do not routinely contract downstream freight; where we do, it will be captured under category 4. |
Our commitment on Scope 3 completeness
We will report the full Technical Standard subset of Scope 3 categories — categories 4, 5 and 7 alongside category 6 — in the FY2026 edition of this plan, following our year end on 30 September 2026, and we are commissioning an independent limited-assurance review of our greenhouse gas inventory. We would rather publish a smaller number we can stand behind, and say plainly what is missing, than publish an unassured estimate of our wider value chain as though it carried the same weight as our audited disclosure.
Independent verification
Every emissions and energy figure in Sections 2 and 3 of this plan can be checked against Legacie Contracts Limited’s audited accounts on the public register, in the Energy and Carbon Report within the Strategic Report:
Companies House — Legacie Contracts Limited (09494137), accounts filing history
4. Emissions reduction targets
In order to continue our progress towards achieving Net Zero, we have adopted the following carbon reduction targets. Targets for Scope 1 and Scope 2 are absolute reductions against the FY2024 baseline. Our interim Scope 3 target is set on an intensity basis — tCO2e per dwelling practically completed — because the reported Scope 3 boundary will widen as the categories in Section 3 are brought into measurement, which makes an absolute year-on-year comparison misleading during that transition.
| Milestone | Scope 1 + 2 vs FY2024 |
Implied Scope 1 + 2 (tCO2e) |
Scope 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 baseline | — | 344 | 8 tCO2e reported |
| FY2025 reported | +52% | 524 | 29 tCO2e reported |
| 2030 — milestone 1 | −50% | 172 | −25% intensity |
| 2035 — milestone 2 | −75% | 86 | −50% intensity |
| 2040 — milestone 3 | −90% | 34 | −75% intensity |
| 2045 — Net Zero | −95% or more | ≤17 | Residual ≤10% of baseline |
FY2024 Scope 1 + Scope 2 baseline = 48.00 + 296.00 = 344.00 tCO2e. FY2025 reported Scope 1 + Scope 2 = 304.00 + 220.00 = 524.00 tCO2e.
Five-year projection. We project that our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions will reduce to 172 tCO2e by 2030. Against the FY2024 baseline of 344 tCO2e that is a reduction of 50%; against the FY2025 reported position of 524 tCO2e it is a reduction of 67%. We state both figures because our FY2025 reported position is above our baseline for the measurement-completeness reason given in Section 2, and the larger of the two reductions is the one we actually have to deliver.
By 2045, residual emissions will be matched by removals from a permanent, independently verified removals portfolio, consistent with ISO 14068-1:2023. We do not use avoided-emissions offsets in place of reducing our own emissions.
5. Carbon reduction projects
Completed carbon reduction initiatives
The environmental management measures and projects set out below have been completed or implemented since the FY2024 baseline. These measures are in effect now and will be in effect when performing the contract.
Measured effect against the baseline. Reported Scope 2 emissions reduced by 76.00 tCO2e between FY2024 and FY2025, a reduction of 25.7% against the FY2024 Scope 2 baseline of 296.00 tCO2e. This is attributable to our renewable electricity contract, the head-office lighting and controls retrofit, and the continuing decarbonisation of the UK grid. Reported Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions increased over the same period, principally reflecting the improvement in measurement coverage described in Section 2. We have not claimed a reduction in total reported emissions, because there was not one.
Energy and buildings
- Head-office electricity supplied on a 100% REGO-backed renewable tariff, in place since FY2024.
- LED lighting and building-controls retrofit at head office — first phase completed in FY2025.
- LED and occupancy-sensor lighting adopted as the standard specification for temporary site accommodation and site lighting on new site set-ups.
Fleet and travel
- Electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles reviewed first on every new or replacement Company vehicle; a non-electric choice requires written justification approved by the Finance Director.
- Four-bay electric vehicle charging installed at head office.
- Rail travel by default; long-haul flights require director-level approval; video conferencing is the default meeting format.
- Cycle-to-work and electric-vehicle salary-sacrifice schemes available to all directly employed staff.
- Annual fuel-efficient driver training delivered through our fleet-management partner.
Site operations and plant
- Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) substituted for fossil diesel in site plant — introduced at our Gateway site and being extended across live sites as fuel logistics allow.
- Generator run-time targets set in every Construction Phase Plan, with generator utilisation checked at weekly site walks and recorded in our project management system.
- Plant idle-shutdown protocols included in operative induction and monitored by site management.
- Site waste segregated by stream with diversion from landfill managed under a site waste management plan on every project.
Materials and design
- Cement replacement (GGBS or PFA) specified as standard on structural concrete — a target of 50% by mass in mass-pour applications and 30% in suspended slabs, verified at procurement gate on every concrete package.
- Electric-arc-furnace structural steel preferred over blast-furnace primary steel, with declared carbon content verified against Environmental Product Declarations before award.
- Recycled aggregate specified in preference to virgin aggregate for sub-base and pipe bedding where the engineering specification allows.
- Lower-embodied insulation and rainscreen cladding systems specified in preference to high-embodied alternatives, where the fire strategy permits.
- Air-source heat pumps specified as primary heating in new-build dwellings; photovoltaic, battery and electric-vehicle charging provision included as standard on new residential developments.
Supply chain
- Every shortlisted subcontractor on a trade package of £200,000 or more is required at pre-award to provide either their own Carbon Reduction Plan aligned to PPN 006 and signed by a director, a statement of alignment with this plan, or a dated engagement plan capped at twelve months from award.
- Environmental Product Declarations required at pre-award on structural, envelope and services packages above £200,000.
- Responsible-sourcing certification (BES 6001) sought for construction-product manufacturers, and FSC or PEFC chain-of-custody required for timber packages.
- Sustained underperformance against a supplier’s own stated carbon trajectory is managed through supplier coaching and, where it persists, removal from our approved-vendor panel.
Management system
- Carbon performance reported through our certified environmental management system, with a quarterly carbon performance dashboard presented to the Chief Operating Officer.
- Carbon and sustainability form a standing scope item in the annual ISO 14001 internal audit cycle.
- An annual Board climate review approves each refresh of this plan.
Future carbon reduction initiatives
In the future we hope to implement further measures such as:
- Completing the Scope 3 inventory — reporting the full Technical Standard subset of Scope 3 categories in the FY2026 edition of this plan, and obtaining independent limited assurance over our greenhouse gas inventory.
- Whole-life carbon assessment on every new project — delivered to the RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment for the Built Environment (2nd edition, 2023) methodology and structured against BS EN 15978 modules, targeted for all new project starts from FY2027.
- Heat-pump heating at head office — feasibility study followed by installation, subject to landlord consent as our head office is leasehold.
- Battery energy storage on site — trial deployment to displace diesel-generator run-time during low-load overnight and weekend periods, on a site to be confirmed.
- Electric vehicle charging on live sites — trialled where welfare power capacity allows.
- Site-generated solar photovoltaic power — assessed project by project, targeting a long-duration site where the energy economics work over the build programme.
- Extending HVO substitution — towards all major plant on our principal sites.
- PAS 2080:2023 certification — carbon management in buildings and infrastructure, targeted for FY2028 once whole-life carbon assessment is embedded.
- Science Based Targets initiative — submission of targets for validation once two full reporting years of inventory data are on file.
- Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS) Phase 4 — audit programme against the reference period ending 31 December 2026, for compliance by 5 December 2027.
6. Environmental management measures and certification
The following certifications and standards are held or in progress. Those marked as held are current at the date of publication and the management arrangements they certify will be applied when performing contracts awarded to us.
- ISO 14001:2015 — Environmental management systems Certificate 006463 · valid to 11 May 2027 Held
- ISO 9001:2015 — Quality management systems Certificate 006462 · valid to 11 May 2027 Held
- ISO 45001:2018 — Occupational health and safety management Certificate 006464 · valid to 11 May 2027 Held
- ISO 27001:2022 — Information security management Certificate 006465 · valid to 11 May 2027 Held
- CHAS Elite Membership CHAS-29019215 Held
- Common Assessment Standard CAS ID 141017 Held
- Constructionline Silver Registration 1400293 Held
- Build UK — member Held
- Construction Innovation Hub — member Held
- PAS 2080:2023 — Carbon management in buildings and infrastructure Certification targeted FY2028 In progress
- Science Based Targets initiative — target validation Submission planned In progress
- Independent limited assurance of the GHG inventory Planned for the FY2026 report In progress
Our ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and ISO 27001 certificates are issued by Qualitas Veritas on behalf of CDL Group Ltd.
Governance and accountability
This plan is owned by the Chief Operating Officer, who is a statutory director of Legacie Contracts Limited and who signs the Energy and Carbon Report in the Company’s statutory accounts. Day-to-day ownership of carbon measurement, reporting and the reduction programme sits with our Health, Safety, Quality and Environment Manager as Carbon Lead. The Finance Director owns the financial and energy data that underpins the inventory and the intensity ratio. Our Procurement and Supply Chain Director owns the supplier requirements in Section 5.
Carbon performance is reviewed quarterly at management review and annually by the Board, which approves each refresh of this plan. This plan is reviewed and re-published at least annually, and sooner if there is a material change in our operations, in the reporting requirements, or in the emission conversion factors we apply.
7. Declaration and sign off
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been completed in accordance with PPN 006 and associated guidance and reporting standards for Carbon Reduction Plans.
Emissions have been reported and recorded in accordance with the published reporting standard for Carbon Reduction Plans and the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and uses the appropriate Government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.
Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions have been reported in accordance with SECR requirements, and Scope 3 emissions have been reported for the sources set out in Section 3 of this plan in accordance with the Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard. The Scope 3 categories within the Technical Standard subset that are not yet separately quantified, and the date by which they will be reported, are stated in full in Section 3.
This Carbon Reduction Plan has been reviewed and signed off by the board of directors.
- Signed on behalf of the supplier
- Gavin Currie
- Position
- Director and Chief Operating Officer
Legacie Contracts Limited - Date