Bellway’s carbon reduction strategy wins leading industry award

Bellway has won a prestigious award for our strategy to reduce carbon emissions across the business as it helps lead the housebuilding industry towards net zero.

We have scooped the prize for Best Carbon Reduction Innovation or Practice at the 2024 Building Innovation Awards, and it is the second year running that we have picked up this accolade.

The award was presented at a gala dinner and awards ceremony held at The Hilton Deansgate in Manchester last week.

Carbon reduction is central to Bellway’s Better with Bellway sustainability strategy, which aims to put people and the planet first.

Carbon reduction forms one of the three key priorities of our over-arching Better with Bellway sustainability strategy and we are delighted that our industry-leading work in the drive towards net zero has been recognised at the Building Innovation Awards.

Simon Park, Group Head of Sustainability for Bellway, said: “Carbon reduction forms one of the three key priorities of our over-arching Better with Bellway sustainability strategy and we are delighted that our industry-leading work in the drive towards net zero has been recognised at the Building Innovation Awards.

“The ability to deliver carbon reduction at scale is an essential part of Bellway’s low-carbon strategy – in fact, scaling up is the very purpose of it, to ensure the industry can meet the challenges faced by climate change.

“We are taking the lessons learned from the experimental Future Home we have built in a climate chamber at The University of Salford – where pioneering research is being conducted on a range of low-carbon technologies – and rolling out this knowledge to live development sites across the country.

“Homes heated by air source heat pumps are now being built by each of our divisions and we’re the first national housebuilder to partner with energy provider Octopus on low-carbon Zero Bills homes.

“We have also created a Future Hub within four Future Home exemplar plots at our Barton Quarter development in Bolton to provide training for our employees and other small and medium-sized housebuilders on Future Home technologies. This is spreading knowledge and expertise more widely, to help deliver the changes required to meet net-zero targets.”