ICE Strategy Session: the new PAS 2080 - carbon management in buildings & infrastructure

Keith Howells

Keith Howells served as the 158th President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

Having graduated in civil engineering in 1974, Keith joined one of the founding members of the Mott MacDonald Group and spent the first 10 years of his career in infrastructure design and project management, primarily in the water and transport sectors. After completing an MBA in 1986, he expanded his focus to planning, feasibility, and financial and economic analysis of projects, mainly in the water and environmental sectors. Over the following decade, he contributed to numerous projects funded by international finance institutions as well as UK government bodies.

Keith has extensive experience in the planning, study, and design of hydraulic structures, hydropower, urban drainage, sewerage, water supply, and river engineering schemes. He has worked both in the UK and internationally. He led the firm’s Water and Environment business from 1997 to 2002, before becoming Group Managing Director in 2004, guiding the company’s expansion in North America and Australasia. Keith chaired the Group’s Executive Board from 2011 until mid-2019, overseeing company performance and strategic direction.

Keith’s leadership roles also include serving on the board of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering from 2011 to 2015, including a term as Chair in 2013, membership of the CBI’s Construction Council from 2013 to 2019, and participation on the Cranfield School of Management Advisory Board from 2012 to 2020. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Maria Manidaki

Maria Manidaki is Mott MacDonald’s global technical lead for net zero. A chartered engineer with more than 18 years’ experience in investment planning and carbon and asset management, she has led several strategic infrastructure decarbonisation projects.

Manidaki has helped water companies and other asset owners in the UK, Australasia, North America and the Middle East to plan and implement decarbonisation solutions.

A member of the Green Construction Board in the UK, she co-wrote HM Treasury’s 2013 Infrastructure Carbon Review and worked on both versions of PAS 2080.

Manidaki is a visiting lecturer on low-carbon infrastructure at Cranfield University and a technical adviser on net zero in several industry forums, including the ICE’s Carbon Project. 

Dr Heleni Pantelidou

An enthusiastic advocate of infrastructure decarbonisation, Dr Heleni Pantelidou advances and coordinates sustainable development and whole-life carbon strategies for the built environment at Arup’s infrastructure group in London. 

Pantelidou combines her deep engineering knowledge with the belief that the construction industry is key to achieving net zero. She is convinced that climate change and ecological degradation are linked and that solving these problems requires a greater understanding of complex natural systems and how they interact with the built environment. She retains close links with academia and has acted as the industrial supervisor for several studies. 

A member of the Green Construction Board and the ICE’s Carbon Project, Pantelidou is also a co-author of the updated PAS 2080:2023 standard for carbon management in buildings and infrastructure.

Adrian Johnson

Adrian is a chartered civil engineer and technical director at Stantec, specialising in carbon and sustainability. In recent years he has been helping UK water companies to develop and implement strategies for carbon reduction and climate change across their capital investment programmes and make progress towards their net zero commitments. He has also led various research and pilot studies on carbon accounting, sustainable water systems, natural and social capital, climate change and resilience.

Adrian is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He chaired the Technical Advisory Panel for developing and subsequently updating PAS 2080 Carbon Management in Buildings and Infrastructure. He is also an honorary professor in the School of Energy, Geoscience, infrastructure and society at Heriot Watt University.

Jane Wright

Jane is a systems engineer leading the development of environment and sustainability tools, training and processes in Transport for London's capital delivery office. She sits on the Institution of Civil Engineers Decarbonisation Community Advisory Board.

David Riley

David Riley is the Head of Carbon Neutrality within Anglian Water responsible for developing and implementing energy and carbon strategies for one of the largest water companies in the UK and also chair of the Water UK Carbon Working Group and member of the Green Construction Board Infrastructure Working Group.

In 2013 he chaired the steering group that developed the HM Treasury Infrastructure Carbon Review and more recently was part of the steering group that delivered PAS 2080:2016 Carbon Management in Infrastructure.

David is a graduate from the University of Bath with a Master of Science in Integrated Environmental Management. Having worked in both finance and the manufacturing sectors, David joined the water industry in 2000 focussing on both energy and carbon management.

Ross McKeown

With a background in Mechanical Engineering and a passion for working with others, Ross is a project manager with 5 years’ experience working in the infrastructure sector. He has worked across several major key infrastructure projects at various stages of the project lifecycle. Most recently, has led the detailed design and construction phases of the Low Crosby Flood Risk Management scheme, successfully delivering a sustainable solution to flood risk management.

David Webborn

David is a chartered civil engineer and environmentalist with over fourteen years’ experience operating within the water and environment sector, and a passion for delivering sustainable civil infrastructure projects and digital innovation.

He has delivered multiple flood risk management schemes for the Environment Agency and other Risk Management Authorities, and is now Head of Discipline for Information Management and Digital Engineering in Jacobs’ Water and Environment business sector.