Sustainability : Carbon Neutral

ProLogis is the first industrial property company in the UK to announce that all newly developed UK build-to-suit warehouse buildings will be certified Carbon Neutral. The significance of this announcement is that we can help our customers to make a positive environmental impact immediately.

ProLogis has developed a process for measuring, reducing and offsetting all the carbon embodied within the structure and fabric of our distribution centres, which is monitored and assessed by carbon and sustainability consultants dcarbon8. Working with our supply chain to put in place measures such as off-site construction, we are able to reduce embodied carbon by up to 25% in comparison with a typical new build distribution centre. We then invest in high quality, verified carbon credits to offset 100% of any unavoidable embodied emissions, allowing each building to be certified ‘Carbon Neutral’.

All new ProLogis buildings save energy and will reduce operational carbon emissions by up to 79% compared with existing facilities. But, because it would take up to 20 years for a typical new build warehouse to compensate for the carbon embodied in the building through operational carbon savings alone, we address the embodied carbon at the construction stage, so that the environmental benefit of moving into one of our buildings is immediate.

Environmental Impact

The graph illustrates the environmental benefits of a ProLogis Carbon Neutral building in comparison to a typical new build offering only operational carbon savings.