Powering the Superpower
Upgrading the UK’s industrial infrastructure to unlock technological transformation for growth.
Industrial buildings and warehouses are an integral and essential part of the UK’s supply chain providing the space and core infrastructure that enables the efficient and reliable distribution and delivery of goods, data and services to communities and businesses up and down the country.
Today, high street clothing and food retailers, online businesses, film makers, high tech manufacturers, engineering firms and post and parcel companies – large and small - all require high quality, sustainable and well-located warehouse, and industrial space to service the needs of their customers, enhance their productivity and achieve their own ambitions to be net zero.
Our customers are leaders in these sectors - Netflix, Mars, John Lewis, Brompton Bicycles, Ocado, British Airways, DHL, Sainsbury, Amazon, Hello Fresh and Royal Mail are not only helping to drive the UK economy through the creation of tens of thousands of well-paid jobs, but they are also at the forefront of technology and innovation.
We are innovating using sustainable building materials to reduce embodied carbon, solar panels, sensors, EV charging, whilst enabling our customers to embrace new technologies from AI to automation, robotics to electric vehicles and data centres to green energy.
This approach is aligned to the UK government's own vision to make Britain a science and technology superpower by 2030. Any Government that wants to become a technology superpower needs to embrace and support growth of the industrial and warehouse sector and ensure the policy environment unlocks the potential of the sector to be a driving force in innovation, job creation and net zero.
SEGRO commissioned DEMOS to take a fresh and independent look at the challenges, opportunities and recommendations what will provide a framework to help meet the government's vision, unlock the growth of the sector and create the modern industrial infrastructure that will enable the UK to compete in a globally competitive technology driven market.
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