Policies

These Mandatory & Optional Project Environmental Standards should be read in conjunction with SCAPE’s Environmental Sustainability Policy.

These standards are designed to offer clients and project delivery teams routes to identify the outcomes-focussed project objectives that enable our Frameworks to deliver the decarbonisation of the UK’s built environment, promote the reduction of waste and increased materials circularity while encouraging a wider focus on environmental sustainability and enhancement during every phase of a project’s lifecycle.

While recognising that every project is unique and will have embedded client ambitions and objectives, we must also recognise that our Frameworks are embodiments of our own sustainability aspirations, and our supply chain partners are selected on both their alignment with and capability to deliver against them. These standards represent those we believe are required as a minimum on projects to deliver a sustainable future.

Should a client’s sustainability aspirations for project delivery be greater than ours, those will take precedence. And vice versa. Greater than or equal to will always apply.

Sustainability considerations are continuously evolving. These standards will be regularly reviewed and updated, and we will engage our partners via our Contractor Sustainability Group to further evolve them to ensure they reflect industry best practice.

As part of our Policy commitments and future compliance-based refinement of them, the SCAPE Group audit team will sample projects randomly and assess how reporting of the requirements of these Standards are implemented across projects delivered through SCAPE’s Frameworks, and we will respond where required elements are not being met.