Join us online to learn more about the PAS 2080 standard for carbon management in the built environment at a webinar hosted by ICE Republic of Ireland, which will feature a Q&A session with experts in the field.
PAS 2080 is a globally applicable standard for managing carbon in the built environment. Covering the whole value chain, it aims to reduce both carbon dioxide emissions and costs through intelligent design, construction and operation.
Drafted by a steering group of experts from across industry and developed by a similarly diverse set of authors, PAS 2080 was originally published in 2016 to cover infrastructure, but in April 2023 it was updated and extended to cover buildings as well. The World Economic Forum has described this version as a “game-changer for construction”.
In the UK, it is published as a national standard by the British Standards Institution (BSI), but its creators hope that it will be adopted by many other countries so that it becomes a truly international standard.
Thanks to ICE sponsorship, the latest version of PAS 2080 is available free from the BSI’s website. To help those implementing it, the ICE has published a guidance document on its own website, which is free to download too. The BSI also offers a PAS 2080 certification, enabling companies to demonstrate their commitment to sustainable development.
Seminar breakdown:
Maria Manidaki, net zero technical lead at Mott MacDonald, will discuss how some of the concepts in PAS 2080 have been applied in infrastructure delivery since the revised standard’s publication, alongside other decarbonisation initiatives.
Richard Patterson, NEC and procurement specialist at Mott MacDonald, will outline the practical application of the new NEC secondary option, X29. This prompts the client to include climate-change requirements in the contract scope and allows for the inclusion of a performance table that asks bidders to offer targets for climate-related issues or even issues of social value.
Úna Barrett, construction carbon associate at Felix O’Hare & Co, will focus on the evolving role of the contractor in managing emissions over the lifetime of building projects through the framework of PAS 2080. She will highlight some of the factors hindering the widespread adoption of the standard among built-environment stakeholders.
David Deakin, technical director at AECOM, will discuss the development of the road emissions model for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). This is TII’s response to the need for improved modelling of transport-based emissions in light of the Climate Action and Low Carbon (Amendment) Act 2021, which has committed Ireland to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 51% by 2030.
Dr David Jackson, associate net zero consultant at WSP, will describe how carbon management has been considered during the N20/M20 road project linking Cork and Limerick. He will outline how PAS 2080 is being used to guide practice through the current design and environmental evaluation phase and beyond.
These presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and a Q&A session in which all attendees will be invited to quiz the experts.
