Jones Engineering achieves accurate emissions tracking with Sweep

Background

Established in 1890, Jones Engineering has worked across all sectors of the construction industry, the company primarily services the data centre, semiconductor, pharmaceutical and life sciences, food and beverage, energy, healthcare, and commercial office fit-out sectors. It has offices across Ireland, Central Europe, the Nordics and the Middle East. Jones Engineering deploys over 4,500 people globally and directly employs 2,800 people from over 55 different nationalities across 18 countries.

The Jones Engineering ambition is simple – to continue to grow their business in a responsible and sustainable manner, with consideration for the environmental and social impacts of everything they do. They endeavour to create value for all stakeholders, including clients, business partners, employees, and those working within the supply chain, in order to positively impact the communities in where they live and work.

In 2022, Jones Engineering launched their Responsible Business Framework, which supports them in reaching this ambition. It consists of four pillars: Our People, Our Planet, Our Products & Services and Our Community.

Under its “Our Planet” pillar, Jones Engineering seeks to minimise its environmental impact through measures to improve resource efficiency, reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, water use, and waste generation. In 2024, the company’s Science Based Targets were approved. As such, Jones Engineering has committed to
Reduce absolute Scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions by 50.4% by 2032 (from a 2022 base year).
Reduce Scope 3 GHG emissions by 50.4% within the same timeframe.

Challenge

Jones Engineering have been calculating their Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions since 2019. In 2022, they completed a comprehensive GHG footprint assessment covering Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

While this was a great start Jones Engineering identified several challenges and began to search for workable solutions. Challenges included:

• Low frequency of reporting
• Manual data processing
• High resource demand
• Scope 3 data collection challenges

In order for Jones Engineering to move towards becoming a leader in the area they understood there was serious investment required for its carbon accounting programme.

Solution

Jones Engineering signed up to Sweep in 2024. Jones Engineering opted to deploy a systematic process of collecting and measuring company data metrics, to support business growth and meet disclosure requirements. This approach helps the company understand its ESG impacts and performance, providing transparency to stakeholders about responsible business practices and contributions to societal and environmental wellbeing. Core to this, Sweep has provided Jones Engineering with a centralised platform for tracking, disclosing, and acting on its carbon data.

Sweep now allows Jones Engineering to manage its GHG emission data and model decarbonisation pathways with ease. In 2024, emissions, on average, continued to trend downward. Jones Engineering will continue to monitor its emission profile closely and develop and deploy decarbonisation initiatives as required.

Additionally, since the rollout of the Sweep sustainability data management platform, key benefits have included:

• Accurate emissions tracking
• Better informed decarbonisation strategies
• Streamlined data and reporting
• Enhanced and transparent reporting compliance
• Alignment with international standards GHG Protocol (Scope 1, 2, & 3) and ISO 14064

Emissions reduction modelling
Jones Engineering now utilises Sweep to model its decarbonisation trajectories and monitor and develop initiatives, based on the underlying data.

The key decarbonisation trajectory levers include:

• Energy Efficiency: optimising energy use in offices and sites by adopting energy-efficient practices and technologies.
• Green Energy Solutions: Implementing green energy solutions for office buildings such as PV solar.
• Transportation: considering electric vehicles for company fleets and using lower-carbon fuel sources.

With Sweep, Jones Engineering has been able to focus on the decarbonisation strategy for Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions and assess the contribution of carbon reduction initiatives, towards the 2032 SBTi-approved target.

Jones Engineering and Sweep will continue to work together and further improve and automate the collection of carbon data and other ESG data across the Group. Moving forward, the company aims to leverage Sweep’s collaborative features to streamline engagement with its supply chain via the software, targeting further Scope 3 emissions reductions in line with its 2032 goals.