Transition plan

Kreate’s business outcomes support the objectives of a sustainable economy. Kreate builds infrastructure that is essential for the green transition to materialise. From the perspective of a sustainable economy, a key challenge is that construction requires resources such as concrete, steel products, and aggregates, which account for the majority of the construction footprint. Greenhouse gas emissions related to materials are generated at different stages of the value chain, including processing, transportation, and construction. In our plan, we place particular focus on those areas where we have a direct ability to influence.

Principles of operation, actions and resources

Kreate pays particular attention in its actions to those areas where it has a direct opportunity to influence. In addition to environmental aspects, social, administrative and economic perspectives are also taken into account in the actions. The company’s emission reduction measures focus on the change of energy sources and the gradual electrification of equipment. With regard to energy efficiency and material efficiency, the measures mainly consist of cooperation with clients. The company does not have significant own measures related to supply chain emissions.

Change of energy sources and electrification of equipment (scope 1)
Kreate’s direct greenhouse gas emissions arise from the use of fossil fuels in the company’s own equipment, production vehicles and company cars. The company’s car policy steers towards the use of electric cars. Of the new company cars ordered in 2025, all were fully electric cars, and more than 90% of the entire company car fleet consisted of fully electric or plug-in hybrid cars. The objective is that the company’s company car fleet will be completely emission-free by 2030. In 2024, Kreate introduced the first electric-powered production vehicles, but their number remained low throughout 2025. With regard to production vehicles, Kreate estimates that electric-powered vehicles will become clearly more common by 2030, but will not yet fully replace internal combustion engine vehicles.

With regard to equipment, Kreate also aims to replace the use of fossil fuels with biofuels by actively communicating different alternatives to clients. During 2025, the company planned to review and, if necessary, update its processes related to project start-up to better support the discussion and systematic increase of the use of biofuels and other circular economy solutions. This work remained unfinished in 2025 and the assessment will be postponed to 2026. The processes related to project start-up are linked to the broader development of the operating system, which the company will review and develop during 2026–2027.

Development of equipment and technology and investments
Kreate aims to renew machinery and equipment systematically, whereby the equipment will become less emission-intensive in the long term. The funds required for the company’s investment plan will come from business operations and various financing solutions, and the amount of annual investments has not been estimated to increase materially from the average level of previous years. With regard to commonly used earthworks equipment, instead of replacement investments the company may consider broader use of services, whereby equipment could be rented or purchased as a contracting service instead of being owned. The use of specialised equipment through rental or purchased services on a significant scale is not a viable option in the near future due to the small size of the market in question. For some specialised equipment, there are also no viable electric-powered alternatives in the near future.

Energy procurement and green electricity (scope 2)
With regard to indirect greenhouse gas emissions related to energy production, the company’s measure is to switch to using green electricity in all new projects, whereby the electricity contract portfolio will gradually be renewed. At the end of 2025, an estimated 70–80% of the electricity used was green electricity.

Material and resource efficiency in cooperation with clients (scope 3)
With regard to other indirect greenhouse gas emissions, Kreate’s measure is to actively cooperate with clients and other parties to ensure that construction is carried out as resource-efficiently as possible. Kreate actively communicates about circular economy solutions and, where possible, proposes replacing virgin materials with recycled solutions. The company also strives for all kinds of resource efficiency, with the largest items being the optimisation of material volumes and the minimisation of transport kilometres. It is essential to create an overall picture of all material flows at Kreate’s construction sites and to plan the circulation of resources in advance so that clean material outflows can be utilised as widely as possible at Kreate’s construction sites or other nearby sites. Efficient material circulation must be taken into account broadly in the tender phase, in communication between construction sites and in cooperation with circular economy areas.

Supply chain, logistics and subcontracting (scope 3)
The majority of indirect greenhouse gas emissions arise from the production of materials, related logistics and fuel emissions from subcontracting. With regard to logistics services and subcontracting, the company anticipates that the power sources of equipment will develop and thereby become less emission-intensive. With regard to construction materials, the company’s plan is based on expectations of positive development in the industry, as described above in the section Transition plan. The company has no measures related to these indirect emissions based on industry development.

Scope of operations and project-specific characteristics
With regard to revenue carried out in the rail environment, no new measures have been identified so far. The company is involved in several large rail projects: the Koskela depot, the Tampere passenger rail yard and the eastern section of the Vantaa tramway. In 2025, the first phase of the Tampere passenger rail yard moved to the implementation phase, and the implementation phase of the Koskela depot had already started in 2024. The eastern section of the Vantaa tramway was in the development phase in 2025, and at the end of the year the Junatie metro bridge won by Kreate also moved to the development phase. The implementation of these projects in accordance with plan is the company’s measure in this area for the coming years.

Emission development and impact of own measures
Kreate’s total greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1–3) decreased in 2025 compared to 2023 by 2,879 t CO2e, i.e. the decrease was 4.7%. revenue in 2025 is 2% lower than in 2023. In addition to revenue, changes in the project portfolio affect carbon dioxide volumes. Kreate is not able to report what share of the decrease in greenhouse gas emissions is the result of the company’s own measures, but its share is marginal in the overall picture. The company expects the impact of its own measures on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to be rather small. The Transition plan estimates that the company’s phase-out of fossil fuels would account for only approximately 1% of the reduction of Kreate’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Greenhouse gas emissions

Construction generates significant greenhouse gas emissions across the entire value chain.

Greenhouse gas emissions

Climate change and Kreate

Kreate acts as an enabler of climate change mitigation, while at the same time the carbon footprint of the entire construction value chain is significant.

See the Sustainability Report

Sustainability targets

In addition to climate targets, the company also has other sustainability targets.

See our sustainability targets