{"id":5927,"date":"2025-12-09T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/12\/09\/peel-ports-champions-sustainable-construction\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:20:00","slug":"peel-ports-champions-sustainable-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/projects-initiatives-greenport\/peel-ports-champions-sustainable-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Peel Ports champions sustainable construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By joining the framework, Peel Ports is positioned to champion greener port infrastructure, marine construction logistics and sustainable construction practices nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs decarbonisation deadlines approach, the demand for greener construction propositions is rising fast,\u201d said&nbsp;David Huck, chief operations officer at Peel Ports Group<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction industry has made good progress in reducing building emissions, but there remains a big opportunity to cut carbon earlier through smarter sourcing and logistics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Low-carbon supply chains<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CO2nstructZero, created in response to the UK Government\u2019s 10-point plan for a \u2019Green Industrial Revolution\u2019, brings leading businesses together to accelerate decarbonisation across the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Peel Ports is looking to help the sector reduce emissions by enabling more efficient, lower-carbon supply chains, including importing construction materials closer to their final destinations. It\u2019s a pertinent time to join the framework as the operator pushes ahead with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/port-and-terminal-news\/peel-ports-names-construction-contractors\/1501171.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">construction framework across its ports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group has also launched its Sustainable Construction Partner programme, connecting materials suppliers, logistics providers and end users to streamline port operations and embed sustainability at every phase of marine construction delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Founding partners, including Ecocem, Hercules, Bretts, Holcim, Mibau Stema and others, are already benefiting from greener, more efficient supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, the programme will support the development of dedicated construction consolidation hubs at every Peel Ports location, building on successful pilots at London Medway and Great Yarmouth.<\/p>\n<p>These hubs will play a critical role in major UK infrastructure projects, enabling large-volume materials to move cost-effectively by rail or water and strengthening the construction industry\u2019s long-term sustainability goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peel Ports Group has become the first UK port operator to join the CO2nstructZero framework, strengthening its drive toward sustainable construction and lower-carbon port operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[843,553,539,342,2399],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-marine-construction","tag-peel-ports-group","tag-port-infrastructure","tag-supply-chain","tag-sustainable-construction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5929,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions\/5929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}