ESG Framework
Environmental Sustainability
In the areas where we can make a genuine difference, not just where we're required to, Taylor monitors, measures, and acts on its environmental footprint.
Waste Recycling Business
Net Zero by 2040
Exceeding Green Star Targets
Climate Change Action
Taylor has signed The Climate Pledge, committing to net zero carbon emissions by 2040, ten years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Alongside Amazon and fellow signatories, we’re working to decarbonise our industry through real changes to how we build, not just how we report.
Circular Economy & Waste
Taylor consistently recycles more than 85% of construction waste, and we're not stopping there. We're working with partners to repurpose and reuse waste streams, increase segregation on site, and push the number higher.
Biodiversity & Land Use
Construction has an impact on the land around it. Taylor takes that seriously, working with NGOs and conservation groups to protect native flora and fauna on and around our sites, minimise biodiversity loss, and where possible, give more to the land than we take.
Partnerships
Low Embodied Carbon Materials
The First Building and Wildlife Retreat used FSC and PEFC-certified Cross Laminated and Glue Laminated Timber, rammed earth, and pigmented concrete to reduce embodied carbon, enhance thermal performance, and reflect local culture through sustainable design and construction.
Design for Disassembly
The First Building’s modular ‘kit of parts’ enables future adaptability, reuse, and relocation—supporting circular construction through prefabricated, mechanically fastened timber and steel components designed for easy disassembly.
Renewable Energy Adoption
Taylor integrates solar PV and battery systems into our builds, reducing emissions, lowering grid reliance, and delivering energy performance that holds up long after handover.
Safeguarding Native Flora
At PolAir Bankstown Airport, Taylor adapted construction methods to protect the endangered Hibbertia Fumana, coordinating with ecologists and stakeholders to preserve the species without compromising delivery. Biodiversity and program don't have to conflict.
Recycling 20,000 Bricks
At Rosebery Engine Yards, Taylor salvaged more than 20,000 bricks and heritage elements from the existing structure. The materials stayed on site, in the building, where they belong.
Roseville College Learning Partnership
Taylor's partnership with Roseville College puts students in front of real industry challenges, using design thinking and site visits to build genuine pathways for young women into construction. It's one of the most direct actions Taylor takes to shift the industry's gender balance.
Ravenswood Art Prize (Indigenous Female Artists)
As a major partner of the Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, Taylor supports Australia's highest-value art prize for women, because recognition, opportunity, and visibility for female artists matters, in the same way it matters in construction.
Future Connect
Future Connect brings emerging construction professionals together for real industry connection, not a networking event with name tags, but genuine peer community for the people shaping the industry's next decade.
Bringing Safety Home Pledge
The #BringingSafetyHome pledge is Taylor's commitment, in writing, that every person on a Taylor site goes home, physically safe and psychologically supported. It's the most important standard we hold ourselves to.
Social Sustainability
People are the measure. Taylor’s social impact work runs through three areas: the people who work here, the communities around our sites, and the industry we are part of. Each one matters. Each one has specific targets behind it.
3230 Volunteer Hours FY24/25
35 Education Outreach initiatives FY24/25
$280K Social Impact FY25
Safety, Health & Wellbeing
Taylor’s approach to safety starts from a simple premise: every person on a Taylor site goes home. That’s not a target, it’s a non-negotiable. The #BringingSafetyHome program, Employee Assistance Program, and ongoing health checks are how we make that concrete, for employees and contractors alike.
Diversity, Inclusion, People & Culture
Construction has a diversity problem: on gender, on background, on representation at every level. Taylor is working to change that: through TWIC and the Women Breaking Ground scholarship for gender equity, and through our social procurement strategy and indigenous spend targets for broader inclusion. These aren't aspirations. They have numbers behind them.
Belonging is something you feel from day one at Taylor. The framework we’ve built covers psychological safety, flexible work, inclusive leadership, and the day-to-day behaviours that make a team genuinely inclusive rather than superficially diverse.
TWIC exists because good intentions don't change industry ratios, deliberate action does. It brings together Taylor's female team members for mentorship, peer connection, and professional development, alongside our Women Breaking Ground scholarship which creates pathways for women earlier in their journey toward the industry
Taylor has set targets for indigenous business spend and is building genuine, long-term relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander enterprises. This isn't a procurement policy, it's a commitment to doing business in a way that creates real economic opportunity for First Nations communities.
Taylor recruits for mindset, and trains for skill. Our workforce reflects the communities we build in, across backgrounds, experience levels, and career stages. We invest in development at every level, because a skilled and diverse team consistently delivers better outcomes than a homogeneous one.
Culture at Taylor is built deliberately, not by default. It shows up in how teams support each other on site, in the quality of our internal programs, in the retention numbers, and in the fact that our people refer their own networks here.
The 'You Matter' program is what that looks like in practice, the brand promise of Made to Matter applied to the people who deliver it.
Community Engagement
Taylor’s community engagement is built around a straightforward idea: the places we create belong to the communities around them, and so does our time and resources.
That means fundraising, volunteering, education outreach, and long-term partnerships with organisations doing work that matters.
Sporting Chance uses sport to support people living with cancer and their families. Taylor's partnership reflects a genuine alignment between their approach (active, community-based, people-first) and the way Taylor thinks about the people who use the spaces we create.
The PIF funds crisis accommodation and support programs for young people experiencing homelessness. Taylor contributes through fundraising events, the Taylor Golf Day, and volunteer time, because the construction industry has both the capacity and the responsibility to address housing insecurity in the communities it operates in.
As a major partner of Australia's highest-value art prize for women, Taylor supports the recognition and advancement of female artists, emerging and established. It's an expression of the same commitment to gender equity that drives our TWIC program and Women Breaking Ground scholarship.
Future Connect is Taylor's series for emerging construction professionals, bringing together younger people from across the industry for networking, peer connection, and genuine insight into where the industry is heading. It's about building a stronger, more connected construction community for the next generation.
Taylor's learning partnerships put our people in classrooms and students on construction sites. The Roseville College partnership is the flagship, using design thinking and real industry challenges to build pathways for young women into the built environment. It's one of the more concrete things Taylor does to address the industry's gender imbalance.
Taylor's 15-year PCA partnership keeps the business connected to industry leadership, policy advocacy, and the talent pipeline shaping Australia's built environment. It's a deliberate investment in the industry's future, not just Taylor's.
Taylor’s NAWIC membership reflects a straightforward view: a more diverse industry produces better built outcomes, and advocacy organisations do the industry-wide work that individual companies can’t do alone.
Partnerships