Circular space, real‑world impact
Adapteo’s 2025 Sustainability Report (SR2025) is showing how our Space‑as‑a‑Service model is helping communities stay open and resilient, while we keep pushing down the footprint of the buildings we provide. External analysis by Upright assesses Adapteo’s overall net impact ratio at +71%, placing us among the top tier of 50,000+ companies evaluated, with particularly strong contributions to societal infrastructure and knowledge. This translates into strong revenue alignment with UN SDGs 9, 11 and 12.
At its core, SR25 is about using modular, reusable space to make everyday life work better for people, with less impact on the planet.
Keeping social infrastructure running through change
In 2025 our 1.6 million square metre fleet of modular buildings supported around 250,000 inhabitants across Europe. Most of the space we rent out goes to social infrastructure – education, healthcare, elderly care and worker accommodation – and we estimate our buildings enabled about 5.3 million hours of education during the year.
When cities face renovation waves, demographic shifts or large industrial projects, our buildings help keep schools, clinics and workplaces open instead of closing their doors.
Cutting the footprint of buildings, while building ambition
SR25 shows steady progress on climate:
- Our total market‑based greenhouse‑gas emissions fell to 90,210 tCO₂e in 2025, a 3% reduction from 2024.
- Carbon intensity improved more clearly, down to 57 kg CO₂e per square metre of fleet and 203 tCO₂e per million euro of revenue.
- All electricity used in our own operations now comes from renewable sources, and renewables account for 63% of our total energy and fuel mix.
We conducted life‑cycle assessments of our core modules to tangibly understand why circular modular space matters. Compared with a comparable new permanent building, new Adapteo modules can have up to 60% lower embodied emissions, and reused, refurbished modules can cut embodied emissions by up to 96%. All validated by RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden.
Putting people and communities at the centre
Our impact is ultimately about the people who work, learn, recover and live in our buildings. To better understand and describe our social impact, we co‑developed a Social Value Creation Model with RISE. The model links Adapteo’s inputs and modular solutions to end‑user wellbeing, organisational continuity and societal resilience.
“Adapteo’s model breaks new ground in measuring social value in temporary spaces, offering a highly plausible and research-based approach.”
— RISE Research institutes of Sweden
Adapteo also used the Upright Project’s impact model to map its net impact and SDG alignment. Upright assessed Adapteo’s overall net impact ratio at +71%, placing the company in the top 4% of assessed companies. According to Upright, Adapteo’s strongest positive contributions are in societal infrastructure and distributing knowledge, with high revenue alignment to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production).
SR25 is our most complete picture yet of how Adapteo’s circular modular space can support a more adaptable, lower‑impact built environment – one school, care home, office and worker village at a time.
