Our Carbon Reduction Plan 2025 Announcement

Granada Cranes Ltd has today published its first Carbon Reduction Plan, prepared in accordance with Procurement Policy Note 06/21. The plan establishes a 2025 emissions baseline of 244 tCO₂e across Scopes 1, 2 and 3, and commits the company to Net Zero by 2050 — a step that makes us eligible for major public sector tenders and strengthens our credentials for any customer specifying overhead cranes or lifting equipment with environmental criteria in mind.

Why we’ve published a Carbon Reduction Plan

A Carbon Reduction Plan is not a sustainability statement or a marketing document. Under Procurement Policy Note 06/21, any supplier bidding for UK government contracts valued above £5 million per annum is required to publish a compliant plan that measures greenhouse gas emissions against the GHG Protocol and commits the organisation to Net Zero by 2050.

For Granada Cranes, publishing this plan has two purposes. First, it formalises our environmental responsibility — giving us a measured baseline and a clear set of actions to work against. Second, it makes us a viable supplier for an expanding set of buyers who apply environmental and ESG criteria when specifying overhead cranes, hoists, lifting gear and servicing.

What we measured

Our 2025 baseline covers Scope 1 and Scope 2 in full, along with a meaningful subset of Scope 3 — measured in line with the GHG Reporting Protocol corporate standard and using UK Government emission conversion factors. The resulting picture is honest and, in parts, unsurprising for a company that runs a national engineering service fleet:

• Scope 1 (151 tCO₂e · 62%) — Direct emissions, overwhelmingly from our fleet of medium diesel vans and cars used by engineers travelling to sites.
• Scope 2 (10 tCO₂e · 4%) — Indirect emissions from purchased grid electricity at our sites.
• Scope 3 (83.6 tCO₂e · 34%) — Well-to-tank (WTT), transmission & distribution losses, business travel, hotel stays, operational waste, and commuting & home-working.

Two Scope 3 categories — upstream and downstream transportation and distribution (Categories 4 and 9) — are currently excluded due to data collection challenges with third-party logistics. We’re actively working with suppliers to capture that data, and it will be incorporated into our 2026 plan.

Our commitment

Granada Cranes is committed to a 100% reduction in our carbon footprint by 2050, measured against the 2025 baseline published here. Reductions will be delivered primarily through practical projects across our operations, our fleet and our premises. Offsetting will only be considered for unavoidable or residual emissions — it will not be used as a substitute for real reductions.

The roadmap to Net Zero is a linear trajectory from today’s baseline to zero over twenty-five years:

Progress will be monitored through an annual review and a KPI framework integrated into our reporting system. We’re honest that 2026 may see a small uptick as reporting data improves and we relocate to new premises — but the overall direction is a steady, auditable reduction year-on-year.

“This Carbon Reduction Plan is more than a compliance document. It gives our customers — and our own team — a clear benchmark to judge us against. It also makes us eligible for a growing set of public sector and ESG-driven tenders where measured environmental credentials are a minimum requirement, not a nice-to-have.”

— Managing Director, Granada Cranes

What we’re doing next

The plan only matters if it translates into real projects. Alongside the measurement framework, we’ve set out the initiatives we’ll deliver across 2026 and 2027:

• Smarter fleet routing (Scope 1) — Route planning and scheduling improvements for our service vehicles to reduce mileage per engineer visit.
• New premises with full EPC assessment (Scope 2) — Energy Performance Certificate and associated upgrades built into our planned relocation.
• Heating and lighting upgrades (Scope 2) — Energy-efficient heating and LED retrofits across office and workshop space.
• Building fabric improvements (Scope 2) — Assessment and upgrade of windows, skylights and insulation at our workshop.
• Scope 3 data capture (Categories 4 & 9) — Supplier engagement to bring upstream and downstream transportation into next year’s reporting cycle.

We’ve also set two KPI ladders that run from Reactive through to Excellence: fuel usage efficiency (Scope 1 and 3) and energy efficiency (Scope 2). Year-on-year improvement of more than 10% on either counts as Excellence under our framework.

Read the full plan

The complete Carbon Reduction Plan 2025 is published on a dedicated page, with the full emissions breakdown, the Net Zero roadmap chart, the KPI framework and our formal declaration signed off at Managing Director level. If you’re evaluating suppliers for a tender or running an ESG review of your supply chain, you can reference the plan directly in your documentation — or download the signed PDF to attach as evidence.