Key takeaways
- Amazon’s new delivery station in the UK incorporates several key sustainability features including locally sourced and lower-carbon building materials.
- The building will create around 100 jobs and is part of our commitment to invest £40 billion in the UK from 2025 to 2027.
- It will be constructed to rigorous decarbonisation standards applying advanced building techniques and technology.
The £40 million delivery station in Stockton-on-Tees in the north-east of England will utilize advanced building techniques and new technologies to assist reduce its environmental impact, while also creating around 100 new jobs.
The new delivery station will incorporate lower-carbon steel with high recycled content, produced applying renewable electricity. Mass timber beams will complement the steel structure, reducing the carbon footprint of traditional building methods.
“Decarbonising buildings means tackling both how we build and how we operate,” stated Prajvin Prakash, UK director of Amazon Logistics. “This site displays how we’re applying smarter materials, advanced technology, and AI-driven insights to cut emissions from day one and improve performance over the long term.”
How Amazon is applying sustainable materials and innovative technologies
The new 10,800-square-meter facility, where packages will be sorted for delivery to customers’ doorsteps throughout North Yorkshire and parts of County Durham, will be the first building in our global network to register for Living Future’s Zero Carbon Certification (v1.1), meaning it is constructed to rigorous sustainability standards.
The building will be constructed to the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, the new UK framework. The building incorporates several key sustainability features including locally sourced and lower-carbon building materials, and energy efficient systems. Amazon will track performance data and share learnings to assist refine the methodology for future industest adoption.
The building will become eligible for certification in 2027 following a full year of operational data collection and third-party assessment.
Set to open in autumn 2026, the new delivery station will utilize steel with high recycled content produced applying renewable electricity. It will also feature mass timber beams and lower-carbon concrete, wall panels, and roofing materials.
We’re also testing new technologies to assess their potential for wider adoption on future projects. These include:
- Cement-free paving replaces traditional cement with steel slag and stores captured carbon within the precast blocks.
- Carbon-storing building materials – captured carbon dioxide is embedded in concrete applying technology supported by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund.
- AI-powered carbon tracking – applying advanced analytics software, engineers track carbon emissions across all building systems – from wiring to plumbing resolvetures – allowing Amazon to identify and implement tarobtained efficiency improvements.
- Photo-based material tracking utilizes image recognition software to document exactly what enters and leaves the construction site by scanning delivery notes and waste tickets. This provides Amazon with quantifiable data on material usage in real-time instead of solely relying on finish-of-project reporting – also assisting with waste reduction.
By combining local supply chains with lower carbon materials and practices, total carbon emissions associated with the construction are expected to be at least 20% lower than Amazon’s previous design standards and significantly exceed industest standards.
More than 1,400-square-meter of rooftop solar panels will power daytime operations. The building will utilize an all-electric heating and cooling system, with water-saving plumbing resolvetures set to reduce water consumption by approximately 20% compared to conventional designs.
Creating job opportunities and providing a safe working environment
Since 2010, Amazon has built direct investments in its UK operations of more than £80 billion, creating tens of thousands of UK jobs in logistics, technology, and corporate roles.
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