Customer satisfaction
What it is: : The percentage of our customers who rate their experience as occupiers of our buildings as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ as opposed to ‘poor’ or ‘average’. Our customers are at the heart of our business and we strive to ensure that we are providing the best level of service possible to maximise customer retention.
Our performance: Satisfaction as an occupier of our buildings was rated as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ by 90 per cent of the 247 customers who participated in the 2021 survey (2020: 87 per cent). The continued high satisfaction rate reflects our focus on communication, being responsive and understanding the needs of our customers and we intend to target similarly high levels in the future. 97 per cent of our customers said that they would recommend SEGRO to others
Employee engagement
What it is: We carry out an employee engagement survey every two years which asks all employees to comment on various aspects of their work at SEGRO and the results of this are shared with the Board and Leadership team. The result given here is for the 2020 survey but in future, we will be carrying out the survey annually. In 2020 we also asked employees a question that focused on Diversity & Inclusion and the result of this will be integrated into remuneration from 2022.
Our performance: Our 2020 employee engagement score was a record 94 per cent and 97 per cent of employees said that they are proud to work at SEGRO and care about the future of the Company. 95 per cent of employees felt that SEGRO respects individual differences.
Embodied carbon emissions
What it is: The largest source of carbon emissions within our control is the embodied carbon in our newly developed buildings. Within our verified Science Based Targets, we are committed to reducing the average carbon intensity of all new developments by 20 per cent by 2030 (compared to a 2020 baseline of 400 kgCO2e/m2).
Our performance: The average embodied carbon intensity in our development programme in 2021 was
391 kgCO2e/m2, reflecting a 2 per cent improvement from the baseline. We reduced this by trialling low carbon or recycled materials, including concrete, steel and timber across multiple projects.
Operating carbon emissions
What it is: Our operating carbon emissions cover our own operations under Scope 1 and 2 and our customer emissions under Scope 3. We have visibility of just over half of the energy use from our buildings by floorspace and for buildings where we do not receive data we have estimated energy use. Within our verified Science Base Targets, we are committed to reducing the absolute carbon emissions of our portfolio by 42 per cent by 2030 (compared to a 2020 baseline of 312,115 tCO2e), in line with a 1.5 degree scenario.
Our performance: During 2021 we reduced the emissions of our portfolio by 10 per cent to 280,575 tCO2e.
This reduction was largely due to the transfer of the last major contracts over which we have control, in Poland and Czech Republic, onto a Green tariff which means that all SEGRO controlled electricity is now zero-carbon.
Visibility of customer energy use
What it is: Under the terms of most of our leases we do not have automatic visibility of customer energy usage data. We recognise the importance of having good visibility of this data so we can accurately assess our Scope 3 emissions and help our customers to reduce their own carbon footprint as well as improving their energy efficiency. We are therefore proactively engaging with our customers requesting access to this data.
Our performance: The visibility of our customer’s energy use improved to 54 per cent (2020: 41 per cent) of our total property footprint by area.
Number of Community Investment Plans
What it is: The target for the Investing in our local communities and environments pillar of our Responsible
SEGRO framework is to create and implement Community Investment Plans (CIPs) for every key market in our portfolio by 2025 (see page 43 for further details of our CIP programme). As we are at an early stage of this programme the KPI involves the number of plans that are created. Once the plans are in place in most markets, this KPI will evolve towards measuring the impact of them.
Our performance: During 2021 we established the framework for our CIP programme and established teams, led by 41 Community Investment Champions, to create the first plans for our largest markets. We expect to launch these during 2022.