Carbon management conversations: applying PAS2080 and sharing best practice

Mark Hansford

Mark is the director of Engineering Knowledge at ICE. He is also a civil engineer and Fellow of ICE, and throughout his 20-plus year career he has sought roles that have allowed him to work with others to both promote the profession and provide professional engineers with the information to help them become better engineers.

He has a MEng in Civil Engineering (First class) from the University of Birmingham and spent three years as a practicing engineer with consultant Atkins before joining New Civil Engineer in 2000, a title he edited for five years before joining the ICE in February 2020.

At his previous role with New Civil Engineer, he’s visited and written technical reports on some of the world’s most spectacular structures in including the Burj Khalifa, the Brenner Base Tunnel and Vladivostok’s Russky Island bridge.

He’s also reported from the scene of a host of international engineering disasters including a bridge collapse in northern Portugal, a tunnel fire in Baltimore and tsunami-struck Sri Lanka. And in 2003 he was the first construction reporter into Iraq following the second Gulf War.

Jessica Postance

Jessica is the climate change programme lead for the Strategic Road Network (SRN) division of Transport. Jessica is responsible for managing the programme of carbon (net zero) measures in line with Net Zero Wales and the Welsh Transport Strategy associated with the operation, maintenance and improvement of the Strategic Road Network (SRN) in Wales. Jessica is also responsible for developing the climate resilience measures for the SRN.

Jessica is responsible for working with the SRN Division to ensure integration of these climate themes to ensure the SRN can respond to the potential impacts of climate change and to enable decarbonisation of the network.

Jessica is leading on embedding carbon management into all the management of all SRN assets, identifying measures to decarbonise the operation of the trunk road network through the implementation of new procedures and guidance. Jessica and her team have specifically been working to embed carbon management into the maintenance of the Strategic Road Network (SRN) in Wales, with the ambition of PAS 2080 accreditation in future.