Amazon Breaks Ground on Hybrid Mass Timber Delivery Station in the UK

Amazon has begun construction on its first delivery station designed to achieve zero carbon certification in the UK and Europe, Chain Store Age reported (2-18-26).

The $54 million, 116,000-square-foot facility in Stockton-on-Tees, England, will sort packages for customers across North Yorkshire and parts of County Durham. Amazon expects the project to create about 100 new jobs.

The building will be the first in Amazon’s global supply chain network to register for Living Future’s Zero Carbon Certification (v1.1). It is also being constructed to meet the new UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard.

Sustainability features include locally sourced and lower-carbon building materials, steel with high recycled content produced using renewable electricity, mass timber beams, and lower-carbon concrete, wall panels, and roofing materials. The design is similar to Amazon’s DII5 delivery station in Elkhart, Indiana, known as the “wooden wonder.”

More than 15,000 square feet of rooftop solar panels will power daytime operations, and the facility will use an all-electric heating and cooling system. Amazon estimates water-saving plumbing fixtures will reduce water consumption by about 20% compared to conventional designs. The company is also deploying AI-based analytics to track carbon emissions across building systems and photo-based material tracking to monitor construction inputs and waste.

The delivery station is set to open in fall 2026 and will become eligible for certification in 2027 after a full year of operational data collection and third-party assessment.