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Laing O'Rourke Canada office - 1031 Saint-Denis Street, Montreal, Quebec · Transition modelFACILITY

Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited · operating_office · Montreal, CA · 45.503, -73.570
basis: MEASURED · confidence: 0.65 · status: active

Climate & nature exec summaryMontreal, CA · claude-sonnet-5 · 2026-07-07

Laing O'Rourke's Montreal regional office is a low physical-risk facility whose main exposure is transition-linked: Canadian grid carbon intensity, not water stress.

Today

As a regional office asset, this site's dominant dependency is grid electricity rather than water or physical infrastructure; observed grid intensity for Canada (Ember 2025) sits at 190.61 gCO2/kWh, driving the facility's Scope 2 GHG footprint. Water risk is low across the board: baseline water stress is Low (<10%, score 0), overall water risk is Low (0.44/25%), and water depletion is negligible (0.0245). The site draws on the Saint Lawrence (Saint-Laurent) watershed, with riverine flood score of 2.14 (moderate) and a drought score just above 1.0, both unremarkable for an office asset with no process water dependency.

Near-term · 2030

By 2030, the IEA WEO 2024 STEPS pathway projects Canadian grid carbon intensity falling to 75 gCO2/kWh from today's 190.61 — a greater than 60% reduction that will materially lower the facility's Scope 2 emissions with no operational change required. Water-related forward-looking scores (2030 water depletion/stress labels) are not populated in this dataset, so no shift in physical water risk can be evidenced for this horizon; current Low ratings should be treated as the working assumption pending data.

Long-term · 2050+

The decarbonisation trajectory continues to 2050, with grid intensity forecast at just 30 gCO2/kWh under STEPS — effectively near-zero-carbon grid supply for this office by mid-century, sharply reducing Scope 2 exposure. No 2080 grid or water horizon data is available, and residual physical risk (flood, drought, water stress) has no projected trajectory in this dataset, so the long-term physical risk picture rests on today's Low baseline scores rather than a modelled forward view.

Call-outs
OPPORTUNITY
Grid decarbonisation cuts Scope 2
Canadian grid intensity is projected to fall from 190.61 gCO2/kWh today to 75 by 2030 and 30 by 2050, passively reducing this office's Scope 2 footprint.
WATCH
Water horizon data absent
No 2030/2050/2080 water stress or depletion projections are populated, leaving future physical water risk unverified beyond today's Low baseline.
WATCH
Moderate riverine flood score
A riverine flood score of 2.14 on the Saint Lawrence watershed warrants monitoring even though overall water risk is rated Low.

Flows0 total · 0 in / 0 out · plus site context + supply/downstream

Inputs (dependencies)
WATER · site context · Aqueduct 4.0
REALM · FRESHWATER
BWS 0.00 · Low (<10%) · SAINT LAWRENCE (also SAINT-LAURENT) (ex 432, 433, 434, 435, 436)
Water stress: 0.00 · 2030 · 2050 · 2080
Water depletion: 2030 · 2050 · 2080
ENERGY · site context · grid carbon
REALM · ATMOSPHERE
CA · Ember observed + IEA WEO STEPS
2025: 191 gCO₂/kWh2030: 752050: 302080:
Outputs (impacts + product)
None.

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