Sustainability

Sustainability has long been an important part of the Sale ethos, we received the ISO14001 Environmental Standard in April 2011, refitted our new offices to ensure maximum energy efficiency with no use of gas in 2017 and more recently have achieved Carbon Neutral status on 1st September 2023. Sale provide a top class maintenance service in order to maximise plant longevity and have excellent technical knowledge and specialty subcontractors to help advise clients on the most sustainable approach. Sustainability is ingrained in our business model with our Corporate Social Responsibility policy and through our training with the Supply Chain Sustainability School.

Carbon Neutral

On 1st September 2023 Sale Group first achieved Carbon Neutrality in accordance with PAS 2060. Our GHG emissions totalled 158.6 t CO₂e for the year 2022, and we retired 159 Gold Standard credits from a forestry project in Bolivia in order to offset this.

On 1st September 2024, we successfully retained PAS 2060 accreditation. Our GHG emissions fell by over 9% to 143.7 t CO₂e in 2023. To offset these residual emissions, we retired 144 carbon credits verified under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance. These were sourced from forest ecosystem projects in the Department of Izabal in Guatemala. Through PAS 2060 we are on a journey to becoming a net zero company.

PAS2060 Qualifying Statement

PAS2060 Verification Opinion

BREEAM, SKA, WELL & LEED

Sale have helped many of our clients to successfully deliver projects achieving different environmental assessment methods such as BREEAM good to outstanding, SKA, WELL and LEED. We work closely with client appointed Consultants to ensure the requirements are followed through in all stages of our works and that the necessary evidence is compiled and published as necessary.

Project: Reading International Business Park

Client: Morgan Lovells

Standard: BREEAM

Corporate Social Responsibility

Sale Group prides themselves on providing a positive working environment across all three businesses; Sale Service & Maintenance, Sale Maintenance & Sale NuGen. Adhering to all relevant legislation, our companies uphold the Corporate Social Responsibility principles which are defined under the following four areas:

Environmental Responsibility

PAS 2060 achieved September 2023
ISO14001 achieved April 2011

Ethical Responsibility

Philanthropic Responsibility

Annual Golf Day this year raising over £40k for The Children’s Trust
Encourage volunteering from staff including local youth charities and mentoring.

Economic Responsibility

Rigorous supply chain checks.
Credit insurance on all major clients.

Please refer to our Corporate Social Responsibility Policy to find out more about Sale Group’s commitment towards the Local Community, our Businesses impact on the Environment, and the relationships built with our Staff, Clients, and Supply Chain.

Supply Chain Sustainability School

Sale Group have achieved Silver level with the Supply Chain Sustainability School with the aim to achieve Gold by the end of 2023. The Supply Chain Sustainability School is a free learning environment, which allows us to upskill our workers on sustainability covering Offsite, Procurement, Digital, Lean Construction, Management, People and FIR (Fairness, Inclusion and Respect). It allows our clients to send us learning plans to ensure that staff working on their sites know what standards they expect to maintain and they can monitor how much we are using it as evidence of our commitment to sustainability. We have also found it to be a great learning tool for our apprentices to use towards their required hours.