M Group has launched its first Sustainability Strategy alongside its FY2026 ESG Report, following a year in which the infrastructure services group posted record revenue, profit and order book. The five-year strategy follows the Group's first Double Materiality Assessment, carried out with independent sustainability advisers ERM.

M Group is a UK and Ireland infrastructure services provider serving the energy, water, transport and technology sectors, reporting turnover of £3.1 billion for the year to March 2026, up 23% year on year, with EBITDA of £217.6 million and an order book of £10.4 billion. The strategy sets seven material outcomes across three pillars: Environmental Stewardship, Social Responsibility and Trusted Operations, each with a named executive owner reporting through the Group's risk and assurance processes.

The structural driver is regulated utility and infrastructure clients increasingly requiring supply chain partners to hold their own credible, externally verified sustainability commitments before award of long-term contracts. M Group's headline targets include cutting Scope 1 and 2 emissions 42% from an FY22 baseline by FY30, reducing Scope 3 emissions intensity per pound of value added by 51.6% over the same period, and moving to a fully electric company car fleet by FY30.

The accompanying FY2026 ESG Report shows M Group's EcoVadis score rising from 56 to 64, earning its first Bronze medal and placing it in the top 35% of companies assessed globally, while its Technology and Communications division earned a Silver medal. Scope 1 and 2 emissions are now 20.7% below the FY22 baseline, and carbon intensity has fallen from 50 to 16 tonnes of CO2e per £1 million of turnover since 2020.

Chief executive Andrew Findlay said the Group's clients "need like-minded partners who can help them deliver their binding environmental commitments," adding that its ambition is "to leave things better than we found them." ESG director Andrew Hunt said the strategy gives each material outcome "an owner and a measurable target or milestone" against which the business "will report progress every year."

For the sector, M Group's strategy shows large infrastructure contractors treating externally assured ESG performance as a condition of winning regulated-sector work, not a reputational add-on.

Source: news.railbusinessdaily.com / constructionnews.co.uk / channellife.co.uk