Achieving net zero is a team sport. Businesses across the Morrisroe Group are actively involved in industry initiatives that help to decarbonise the Built Environment. We also aim to collaborate with our clients to optimise designs and minimise the reprocessing of raw materials.

Increasingly, we work on repurposing projects where buildings are adapted, extended andr epurposed in some way.

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The Engineers Reuse Collective

In line with our client’s net zero objectives, our approach to sustainability has shifted from a primary focus on recycling and reducing waste to landfill to a broader focus encompassing regenerative principles and circularity. Restorative solutions we can offer include designing for pile reuse.

GSS Piling is an affiliate member of the Engineers Reuse Collective whose mission it is to increase reuse in the Built Environment, support the transition to the circular economy and reduce the carbon intensity of the Built Environment.

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Engineers Declare

Our group-wide net zero ambitions are further supported by commitments made by our structural design practice, Kingscote Design Limited, who are signatories to UK Structural Engineers Declare. Engineers Declare is part of the Built Environment Declares Climate and Biodiversity Emergency campaign where professionals from across the built environment, from architects to building contractors, acknowledge the extreme seriousness of the climate situation. The declaration is a public commitment to positive change and means that our design practice is committed to designing out carbon wherever possible in line with circular economy design principles.

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For everyone working in the field of engineering, meeting the needs of our societies without breaching the earth’s ecological boundaries will demand a paradigm shift in our behaviour. If we are to reduce and eventually reverse the environmental damage we are causing, we will need to re-imagine our work as indivisible components of a larger, constantly regenerating and self-sustaining system," Engineers Declare states.

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Construct Trade Association Sustainability Forum

In 2025, Dan Bannister, Group HSEQ director, was appointed Chair of the CONSTRUCT Sustainability Forum, with a view to helping the concrete structures sector to pull together to accelerate the decarbonisation of the built environment.