News Morgan Sindall secures £1m to enhance its carbon tool Morgan Sindall Construction has secured nearly £1m funding from Innovate UK to enhance its whole life carbon assessment (WLCA) tool.
News Can embodied carbon data be rolled into Scope 3 reporting? How can embodied carbon data be used and included within Scope 3 emissions reporting? The UKGBC wants to the industry’s answer.
News Cross-industry database set to be main source of carbon estimating The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) launched this week a free-to-access benchmark tool for infrastructure carbon assessment in the UK construction industry.
News New construction carbon database: ‘No let up on decarbonisation’ The construction industry must maintain its commitment to decarbonisation even as the government back-pedals. That’s the message from those involved in the Built Environment Carbon Database, which will launch next week.
News Atkins helps develop carbon measurement tools for airports Atkins has teamed up with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create digital tools for airports to estimate the embodied carbon in new structures.
News Commercial offices need verifiable carbon data to meet net-zero targets Hard data and robust benchmarks are needed for commercial offices to successfully address both embodied and operational carbon. That’s the key finding from a new British Council for Offices report.
News Balfour Beatty: ‘The supply chain wants carbon clarity’ The construction supply chain needs clarity on carbon measurement if net zero targets are to be achieved. That’s the key finding from a survey conducted by Balfour Beatty and the Supply Chain Sustainability School
News Aecom set to design greener roads with AI carbon analysis at design stage Aecom is set to use carbon emissions analysis software on road projects to help develop more sustainable designs.
News Carbon management standard out for consultation The draft version of PAS 2080:2022 Carbon management in buildings and infrastructure is now out for consultation.
News BIM in brief 17.05.22: $45m invested in robot that prints plans on site floors A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.
News Carbon reporting: construction’s Achilles’ heel? If the construction industry is meet the Net Zero challenge, it must over come its weakness: carbon reporting, according to Skanska UK head of environment David Mason.
Analysis Meeting the challenge of calculating carbon Experts from carbon- and innovation-focused working group Zero consider the challenge of calculating and reducing carbon.
News Focus on life cycle to meet climate demands Construction professionals must become life-cycle literate and understand environmental product declarations for the sector to meet climate change demands, the Global Cement and Concrete Association has declared.
News SNC-Lavalin launches data-driven decarbonisation service Atkins parent SNC-Lavalin has launched a data-driven decarbonisation service for the existing built environment, known as Decarbonomics.
News BIM in brief: 11.1.22 A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.
News Zero working group reveals initial industry change targets The new carbon- and innovation-focused working group Zero has provided further details of its plans for next year following its official launch at the recent Digital Construction Week.
News What construction needs now: fresh thinking from Zero James Bowles teases the launch of a new initiative to address construction’s approach to sustainability, Zero, which is due to launch at Digital Construction Week on 24 November. Construction is…
News Industry unites to develop common carbon database A common carbon database for the built environment is being developed by a consortium of the sector’s associations and institutions and will be launched in stages next year.