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Laing O'Rourke Ireland office - 25/28 North Wall Quay, Dublin 1 · Transition modelFACILITY

Laing O'Rourke Delivery Limited · operating_office · Dublin, IE · 53.349, -6.261
basis: MEASURED · confidence: 0.65 · status: active

Climate & nature exec summaryDublin, IE · claude-sonnet-5 · 2026-07-07

Laing O'Rourke's Dublin 1 regional office carries low physical water risk and a grid decarbonising fast, making Scope 2 electricity the primary — and rapidly shrinking — impact lever at this site.

Today

This is a standard regional office asset with no material water dependency: the site sits in the Ireland (ex 602) watershed with a baseline water stress label of Low-Medium (10-20%, score 1.07) and an overall physical risk score of 0.96 (Low, <25%), including modest coastal (1.20) and riverine (0.86) flood scores and low water depletion (0.58). The dominant impact channel is Scope 2 GHG from grid electricity: Ireland's grid carried an observed intensity of 256.38 gCO2/kWh in 2025 (Ember Yearly Electricity 2025), meaning the office's operational footprint is driven almost entirely by purchased power rather than site-level physical exposure. No flow data (energy/water consumption volumes) is available at the facility level, so absolute impact magnitude cannot be quantified here.

Near-term · 2030

By 2030, IEA WEO 2024 STEPS projects the Irish grid intensity falling to 130 gCO2/kWh — roughly a 49% reduction from the 2025 observed value — meaning any given kWh consumed at this office will carry about half today's embedded emissions with no change in operational behavior required. Physical risk indicators (water stress, flood, drought) have no 2030 horizon values reported in this dataset, so the water/flood risk profile should be treated as static at today's Low-Medium levels pending updated horizon modelling.

Long-term · 2050+

The decarbonisation trajectory steepens further to 2050, with grid intensity projected at 50 gCO2/kWh — an ~80% reduction versus 2025 — effectively neutralising Scope 2 as a material transition risk for this office by mid-century. No 2080 grid or water-stress/depletion horizon data is provided, and residual physical risk (coastal/riverine flood, drought) remains unquantified beyond today's Low baseline, so long-term physical exposure should be revisited once longer-horizon climate layers are populated for this location.

Call-outs
OPPORTUNITY
Grid decarbonisation cuts Scope 2 automatically
IE grid intensity is projected to drop from 256 gCO2/kWh (2025) to 130 by 2030 and 50 by 2050, passively decarbonising this office's electricity-driven footprint.
WATCH
Missing flow and horizon data
No energy/water consumption flows and no 2030/2050/2080 water-stress or flood horizon scores are populated, limiting quantification of absolute impact and forward physical risk.
WATCH
Low but non-zero flood exposure
Coastal (1.20) and riverine (0.86) flood scores are modest but present for this Dublin quay-side location and warrant periodic re-check as horizon data becomes available.

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

Inputs (dependencies)
WATER · site context · Aqueduct 4.0
REALM · FRESHWATER
BWS 1.07 · Low - Medium (10-20%) · Ireland (ex 602)
Water stress: 1.07 · 2030 · 2050 · 2080
Water depletion: 2030 · 2050 · 2080
ENERGY · site context · grid carbon
REALM · ATMOSPHERE
IE · Ember observed + IEA WEO STEPS
2025: 256 gCO₂/kWh2030: 1302050: 502080:
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