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Measured savings on live UK construction sites

Three sites, three periods, all whole-period figures from each site’s own meter data. Every percentage carries the period it was measured over, because the period is what makes it meaningful.

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89% Morgan Sindall
Swynnerton
20 cabins · grid
3 Mar to 31 May 2026
65% Select Plant Hire
Wincham HQ
15 cabins · grid
13 May 2025 to 30 Apr 2026
57% Morgan Sindall
Maendy
7 cabins
7 May 2024 to 31 Oct 2025

Measured energy savings over whole monitored periods. Electricity rates are supplied by each customer and range from 24p to 30p per kWh, so the rate is printed next to every £ figure. £ savings are not comparable between sites and are never averaged or totalled.

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89% Swynnerton

Morgan Sindall
Site
20 cabins · grid · 3 March to 31 May 2026
Energy
30,310 → 3,151 kWh
27,159 kWh avoided
Cost
£6,518 saved at 24p/kWh

A three-month spring window, the strongest part of the year, which is why it is our highest figure.

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65% Wincham HQ

Select Plant Hire
Site
15 cabins · grid · 13 May 2025 to 30 April 2026
Energy
105,141 → 36,129 kWh
69,012 kWh avoided
Cost
£20,704 saved at 30p/kWh

Select run Gaia on their own head office.

Monitoring was not continuous across this span: no data for February 2026, and a wifi outage 2 to 17 July 2025.

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57% Maendy

Morgan Sindall
Site
7 cabins · generator to 10 Sep 2024, grid after · 7 May 2024 to 31 October 2025
Energy
52,129 → 22,636 kWh
29,492 kWh avoided
Cost
£11,669 saved at 25p/kWh

The 57% is the whole period, including the diesel saved on the generator. The £ figure is on the grid basis only.

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How to read these numbers

The period is part of the figure

Savings peak in spring and autumn. Summer has low consumption so there is little waste to remove; in winter the heating is genuinely needed and can’t be switched off. The shoulder months carry the most removable waste.

The same site read 37% across a summer (13 May to 31 July 2025) and 65% across a full year (13 May 2025 to 30 April 2026). That is why Swynnerton’s 89% (3 March to 31 May 2026) is our highest figure, a spring window, not a better site, and why we never publish a percentage without its period.

Pounds don’t travel between sites

Electricity rates are supplied by each customer and vary from 24p to 30p per kWh, so every £ figure carries the rate it was calculated at.

We never average or total £ savings across sites. kWh and percentages are the comparable metrics. How we calculate a saving.

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