Innovating for a more resilient built environment
Our approach enables CRH to drive value from the transition to a more sustainable built environment
By uniquely integrating our essential materials, products and services, we have developed the expertise and capabilities to meet our customers’ needs for highly innovative, value-added solutions for their water, circularity and decarbonization challenges.
Revenues from products with enhanced sustainability attributes in 20241
tonnes of wastes and by-products recycled in 2024
Reduction in Scope 1 and Scope 2 (market) CO2e emissions in 2024
Our integrated approach to sustainability
Our Framework for a Sustainable Future guides how we integrate sustainability throughout our business – innovating materials, products and services that positively impact the quality of the built environment.
We create long-term value by supporting our customers and communities to address the key challenges for the built environment – water, circularity and decarbonization.
Our approach is underpinned by helping to protect the natural world, supporting our people and communities and continuing to operate as a responsible business.
Our performance and progress
Explore our 2024 Sustainability Performance Report to learn how we’re innovating toward more resilient communities and creating long-term value for our customers. Read our note about forward-looking statements.
Innovation in action
Innovating on Stormwater Management
CRH companies created a stormwater solution for the city of Renton, Wash. to protect neighborhoods from flooding and address pollutants in stormwater runoff.
Rethinking Material Use
CRH in Denmark developed a way to cast new concrete elements by re-using whole pieces of recovered concrete components, reducing the need for primary materials. Reusing these pieces reduces the CO2 emissions of the new elements by up to 26% compared to standard concrete elements.
Investing in Decarbonization
CRH Company Danucem installed new SRF handling equipment at the Rohoznik, Slovakia cement plant, enabling it to use a more diverse range of fuels with enhanced biomass content. Rohoznik now has one of the highest alternative fuel rates in CRH.
Codes of conduct
Codes of Business Conduct
Our corporate culture, while having a global dimension, is firmly based on the belief that local management, with a real understanding of its business and culture, can best serve the needs of all stakeholders. This flexibility to manage and make decisions creates a commitment to the important concept that each company is both individual and part of the global organization that is CRH. In the Code there is a recurring phrase: “It Begins with Me.” Living up to our values as a company is only possible when each of us plays their part. Keeping everyone safe, following the law, doing the right thing, showing respect to others – it all begins with me.
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CRH places business ethics and sustainability at the forefront of all business interactions, including those with our suppliers, recognising they are key stakeholders in the success of our business.
We expect our suppliers, both direct and indirect, to share our unwavering commitment to ethical business practices and meet our standards including respect for human rights, health & safety and environmental stewardship.
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Ukranian CodeModern Slavery Act Statement
CRH believes that slavery, in all its forms, is unacceptable and that all CRH companies must do everything they can to prevent any form of slavery or any other unethical behavior. Our Modern Slavery Statement outlines the steps CRH and its subsidiaries have taken to ensure that slavery, child labor, and human trafficking is not taking place within either its own business or its supply chains. This statement is being made in compliance with requirements for supply chain reporting in applicable jurisdictions as noted in the Modern Slavery Statement.
Download 2024 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2023 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2022 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2021 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2020 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2019 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2018 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2017 Modern Slavery Act Statement
Download 2016 Modern Slavery Act StatementPreventing Discrimination and Harassment in the Workplace
CRH is committed to doing business in a sustainable, responsible and ethical manner. This applies to our customers, suppliers, business partners, local governments, communities, shareholders and employees alike, building lasting relationships based on our values of doing what we say and leading with integrity.
Gender Pay Gap
In line with Irish legislation that came into effect in 2022, CRH plc’s three companies in Ireland – Irish Cement Ltd, Roadstone Ltd and CRH Group Services Ltd – publish gender pay gap reports on an annual basis.
Irish Cement Ltd. is the leading supplier of cement in Ireland, with plants located in Co. Limerick and Co. Meath, and employs 311 people. Roadstone Ltd. is Ireland’s leading supplier of construction materials, with a national network of quarries and outlets, and employs 696 people. CRH Group Services Ltd is the administrative head office of the global Group and employs 445 people.
All three of our businesses in Ireland saw an improvement in results and consequently there is a zero mean gender pay gap across the three entities combined (down from 8.8% last year). This reflects the progress being made as we continue to enhance inclusion and diversity in our workforce. Details of each company’s gender pay gap for the year, and initiatives to close the gaps, are included in the reports below.
Download CRH Group Services – Gender Pay Gap Report 2024
Download Irish Cement – Gender Pay Gap Report 2024
Download Roadstone – Gender Pay Gap Report 2024Maintaining Positive Stakeholder Relationships
At CRH, we are committed to building strong relationships with our stakeholders and making a positive difference in the communities where we operate. Our stakeholder engagement procedures empower our businesses to deliver local engagement in an inclusive and transparent way.
Payments to Governments
We have prepared Reports on Payments to Governments for Extractive Activities in line, for each of the applicable periods, with the EU Accounting (2013/34/EU) and Transparency (2004/109/EU) Directives as amended and as transposed into Irish Law and the disclosure and transparency rules of the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. Our Reports on Payments to Governments for Extractive Activities for the year ended 31 December 2017 – 2024 are available to download below.
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2024
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2023
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2022
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2021
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2020
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2019
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2018
Download Report On Payments To Governments 2017Climate Advocacy Review
At CRH, we fully support the Paris Agreement, and are working to ensure we are part of the solution to climate change. We are also committed to transparent climate advocacy and have undertaken this review to ensure our climate policies, direct lobbying and trade group advocacy align with the goals of the Paris Agreement, as we recognize a supportive public policy environment can help us deliver our ambition to be net-zero by 2050.
1 – Revenues derived from products that incorporate any, or a combination of; recycled materials; are produced using alternative energy and fuel sources; have a lower carbon footprint as compared to those produced using traditional manufacturing processes; and/or are designed to specifically benefit the environment (i.e. water treatment and management systems, products with strong thermal mass/U-values).