Impact & dependencies
Impacts and dependencies
Impacts are the changes a business causes to nature through its activities, positive or negative, direct or indirect, across its full value chain.
Dependencies are the ecosystem services a business relies on to function, such as freshwater, raw materials, or flood protection.
Together, they form the foundation of any nature assessment, because impacts create risks for society while dependencies create risks for the business itself.
We are currently in the early stages of mapping our own impacts and dependencies as part of our nature strategy project. This is not a final or exhaustive list. A full mapping will be available in our next report.
What we depend on
- Fresh water for concrete mixing, dust suppression, site operations
- Raw materials sand, gravel, timber, stone (all nature-extracted)
- Stable soils load-bearing capacity for foundations
- Climate regulation predictable weather for project planning and safety
- Biodiversity healthy ecosystems that keep material supply chains viable long-term
Our negative direct impact from our own operations
- Land use for own developments
- Land use and CO2 emissions for the procurement of concrete, sand, water and other raw materials
- Waste from construction and production operations
- Embedded carbon (in materials and machinery)
- Air and noise pollution
- Artificial light pollution on sites
- Water consumption
Our negative indirect nature impacts from our value chain
- Land clearing / deforestation / habitat destruction
- Biodiversity loss and ecosystem fragmentation
- Upstream extraction impacts (quarrying, mining for materials)
- Waste from demolition
Our positive impact across our value chain
- Soil remediation and land regeneration
- Production of bio-based construction materials that can act as carbon sink
- Renewable energy solutions
- Improving biodiversity with our energy hills
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