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Main contractors (Mace, Overbury, Skanska, ISG, Bouygues, Vinci) carry vast embodied carbon through the materials they specify. Concrete and steel dominate. Their own operations (Scope 1+2) are small relative to what flows through the projects they build.

Companies tracked
5
Phase 2 cohort
With SBTi target
0/ 5
0% coverage
Median operational intensity
74.61tCO2e / $m OpEx
from 2 firms · USD-normalised
Reporting years
2020–2026
latest disclosed per firm
SBTi coverage
0%of 5 firms

Where this sector sits globally

Median operational intensity (Carbon / USDm OpEx) per sector · log scale · click any dot to switch
9 sectors · this sector 141.1
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1.0M
Construction & Contractors (n=3) · 141.12 ↓
← cleanest: Consulting (25.2)dirtiest: Utilities — Electricity (309.8k) →
Key carbon drivers
  • Materials specified
    Concrete, steel, aluminium, glass, insulation. The 'A1-A3' production stage of every material lands here.
    Scope 3 · cat 1 (purchased goods)
  • Site plant + fuel
    Diesel for excavators, cranes, generators. Electrification is the cheap-to-cut S1 lever.
    Scope 1
  • Subcontractor operations
    Tier-1+ subcontractors carry their own S1+2 (transport, equipment, site offices).
    Scope 3 · cat 1
  • Office + site offices
    Headquarters + temporary site cabins. Small absolute share for an asset-light contractor.
    Scope 1 + 2
  • Use phase of completed assets
    Buildings the contractor delivered will emit for decades. Not formally counted by most contractors but increasingly reported under WLCA.
    Scope 3 · cat 11 (use of sold products)
Scope references follow the GHG Protocol Corporate Standard + Scope 3 Standard.
Reference transition plan
SBTi 1.5°C corporate + RICS WLCA + LETI + WGBC

RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment (UK + global) is the industry standard for measuring embodied + operational carbon. LETI provides design targets for new buildings. World Green Building Council coordinates national green building councils.

Methodology
MethodologyWhy embodied carbon, not operational, for contractors
A contractor's office and plant emissions are dwarfed by the concrete + steel + glass + aluminium they specify into projects. Per-revenue intensity is structurally noisy — a contractor on a high-spec data centre will look 'worse' than one building cheap warehousing for the same financial scale. Embodied carbon per £m project value is the real diagnostic.

Sector benchmarks · headline intensities

Per-company latest year · USD-normalised at 12-month average rates · snapshot 2026-05-05
5 firms in cohort

Each strip shows where every firm in the cohort sits on one intensity axis. Lower is better — left of the strip is best, right is worst. Each peer dot tooltips its value and the year it came from. Financial denominators are converted to USD before computing so cross-currency comparisons are apples-to-apples.

Revenue intensity

Carbon / USDm revenue
n=2 · median 235.30 · IQR 121.54–349.05
0.00
73
145
218
291
364
436
509
median 235.30

Operational intensity

Carbon / USDm OpEx
n=2 · median 74.61 · IQR 41.35–107.86
0.00
22
44
67
89
111
133
155
median 74.61

Economic intensity

Carbon / USDm EVIC
n=2 · median 153.67 · IQR 81.89–225.45
0.00
47
93
140
187
234
280
327
median 153.67

Asset intensity

Carbon / USDm PP&E + leased
n=2 · median 8076.14 · IQR 4095.14–12057.14
0.00
2.5k
5.0k
7.6k
10k
13k
15k
18k
median 8076.14

Asset intensity (full)

Carbon / USDm PP&E + leased S3
n=0
no firms in this cohort have the inputs needed for this intensity

Companies · 5 firms

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RVB IDCompanyTickerSubtypeHQRevenueOperationalEconomicAssetAsset (full)Sources
RVBA-BALFOBalfour BeattyBBYEngineering & ConstructionUnited Kingdom462.81141.12297.2416038.15—
SBTiCDPReport
RVBA-BOUYGBouyguesENEngineering & ConstructionFrance—————
SBTiCDPReport
RVBA-KIERKier GroupKIEEngineering & ConstructionUnited Kingdom—————
SBTiCDPReport
RVBA-SKANSSkanskaSKABEngineering & ConstructionSweden7.798.1010.10114.14—
SBTiCDPReport
RVBA-VINCIVinciDGEngineering & ConstructionFrance—————
SBTiCDPReport

Reference carbon factors · Construction & Contractors

Authoritative benchmark factors curated from published sources. Citation-anchored · pre-pilot vintage · refreshed manually as new releases land.

Below sit every reference factor relevant to a construction & contractors firm. Use these as starting points when you need to estimate emissions for a category the cohort doesn't disclose, or to spot-check disclosed figures against the consensus range. Each value is anchored to the published source — click any source slug to open the citation.

No carbon-factor reference set built yet for Construction & Contractors.

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