logistics facilities

Supply chains play a critical role in society. As the vital link between industry and consumer, the logistics sector is a key driver of global and local economies.

• Choose sites close to large consumer populations – helping our customers meet rising delivery and service expectations
• Focus on urban infill locations – minimising travel distances and related carbon emissions, offering easy access to existing transport infrastructure, reducing traffic congestion and freight transportation. All of this allows for greater supply chain resilience and sustainability benefits
• Acquire and redevelop brownfield sites – turning outdated buildings into modern logistics facilities, improving the quality and performance of existing building stock without requiring additional land
• Look for opportunities in our existing portfolio , industrial or logistics areas – supporting their continued economic development and employment growth.

Sustainable space for the long term.

• Design based on lifecycle analysis - understanding the overall environmental impact of our buildings over the long term, is helping us transition to carbon neutral developments and meet growing market demand for reducing carbon emissions  
• Take a circular approach to deconstruction and construction - reducing, reusing and recycling existing resources 
• Minimise energy consumption - using sustainable lighting and HVAC features across our developments  
• Produce on-site renewable energy - including solar PV. We’ve installed 35 MWp across new and existing facilities to date in CE 
• Install EV charging infrastructure - increasing our roll-out of dedicated parking bays and battery charging stations for customers’ vehicles.

• Enhance the local environment and improve biodiversity - establishing urban forests, linking wildlife corridors, installing gardens with beehives and expanding conservation areas at our sites for example  
• Promote workforce wellbeing - creating a comfortable working environment for customers’ staff by providing more natural light and designing indoor and outdoor space such as outdoor fitness equipment, amenities and breakout areas 
• Invest in sustainable innovations in our properties todrive efficiencies in logistics and transportation operations. Examples include smart metering to track energy performance, or infrastructure to enable automation and robotics