Tarmac

Tarmac, the UK's leading sustainable construction materials and solutions business, launched its Levelling Up Impact Report today, in partnership with the Purpose Coalition. The report was launched at Next Gen 2030+, an event hosted by Tarmac to discuss business solutions to climate change in the construction industry. Tarmac is the first organisation in the materials or construction sector to publish a Levelling Up Impact Report.

Chair of the Purpose Coalition and former Education and Transport Secretary, Rt Hon Justine Greening, said: “Tarmac has a huge reach across the country. That means it also has huge potential to deliver purposeful impact on the communities where it operates, not just in terms of the company itself but extending that to its supply chain and to the local projects it supports. As a people-focused anchor institution, it has the capacity to create a pipeline of talent that starts with its outreach in schools and continues with its nurturing of employees, demonstrating that a large business can produce social value through employee engagement and development programmes. Its willingness to ensure that it recruits from every part of the community and to measure and evaluate its progress means that opportunity is spread much more widely.

“I am delighted to take part in today’s event which is another example of Tarmac’s willingness to develop collaborative and workable solutions to the challenges the construction sector is facing. Its people-centric approach is balanced with its planet-focused strategy, using the very best of its research to ensure sustainability and the achievement of net zero within its own organisation and that of its supply chain. I’m looking forward to continuing to work in partnership with them to promote meaningful social impact.”

Graeme Boylen, HR director - Europe West at Tarmac’s parent company, CRH, said: 

“We’re incredibly proud of the work we’ve done so far on delivering tangible social impact, and that it’s been recognised today by the Purpose Coalition. In particular, we welcomed the findings about the work Tarmac is doing in schools, through our apprenticeships and our engagement with both our staff and the communities we operate in.

“We’ve found this a really valuable process and, as the first in the sector to publish its Levelling Up Impact Report, we hope that we can encourage other parts of the construction industry to take part. However, we recognise that we can go even further, and plan to take action on the recommendations in today’s report to create even more opportunities, build communities and continue our journey to net zero.”