Bentley
For over 39 years, Bentley has served the engineers and other professionals responsible for designing, constructing, and operating sustainable infrastructure, essential to the quality of life for everyone, everywhere.
Event organised by ICE
ICE’s Carbon Champions initiative celebrates individuals and their teams who are committed to achieving net zero and have a case study to prove this.
Hosted by ICE President Keith Howells, this hybrid session will welcome some of our current ICE Carbon Champions to the stage. They will present progress on their projects, highlighting where they have harnessed opportunities for carbon reduction, and challenges they have faced. We will also hear how PAS 2080, the BSI Standard on carbon management in infrastructure, has factored into their case studies.
A Q&A session, moderated by Lara Young, will be your opportunity to learn from our champions and hopefully generate your own carbon-saving ideas. Finally, we’ll bring together three of our esteemed Carbon Champions Expert Review Panel members to discuss how ICE’s carbon community can help to promote the adoption of the newly released PAS 2080.
Join us to find out more about our Carbon Champions and get some ideas of how to save carbon on your own projects.
In the meantime, think about submitting an application, or check out our Carbon Champions hub.
For over 39 years, Bentley has served the engineers and other professionals responsible for designing, constructing, and operating sustainable infrastructure, essential to the quality of life for everyone, everywhere.
Registration and refreshments
[Registrations start at 10:30 BST for those attending in person. For those joining online, we recommend logging in at 10:45 to test connections]
Introduction from ICE President Keith Howells
Introduction from Lara Young (Cromwell Property Group), Chair of the Carbon Champions Expert Review Panel
Carbon Champions case studies – PAS 2080 in practice
David Jackson, Sweco – Cross Tay Link Road case study
Q&A session with the Champions, hosted by Lara Young
Fireside chat: How can ICE’s Carbon Community help drive PAS 2080 adoption?
Closing remarks from Lara Young
Session close
Institution of Civil Engineers
president 2022/23
Keith Howells is the 158th President of the ICE.
Having graduated in civil engineering in 1974, Keith joined one of the founder members of the Mott MacDonald Group and spent the first 10 years of his career in infrastructure design and project management, mostly in the water and transport sectors. On completing an MBA in 1986, he became involved with the planning, feasibility, and financial and economic analysis of projects, principally in the water and environmental sectors. Over the next decade he worked on numerous projects funded by the international finance institutions as well as by UK government bodies.
Keith has built career long experience in the planning, study and design of hydraulic structures, hydropower, urban drainage, sewerage, water supply and river engineering schemes. He has worked in numerous countries as well as in the UK. He ran the firm’s Water and Environment business from 1997 to 2002, before becoming the Group Managing Director in 2004, directing the firm’s expansion in North America and Australasia. Keith became Chair of the Group’s Executive Board in 2011, responsible to shareholders for the performance of the company and its strategic direction – a role he continued until mid-2019.
Keith was on the board of the Association for Consultancy and Engineering from 2011 to 2015, and its Chair in 2013; he was a member of the CBI’s Construction Council from 2013 to 2019; and a member of the Cranfield School of Management Advisory Board from 2012 to 2020. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
University of Oxford
associate professor of engineering science & tutorial fellow of the new college
Barbara leads the Sustainable Metal Structures Research Group at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the role of metals in structures to improve the construction sector sustainability and resilience. Barbara joined the University of Oxford in March 2019 as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Engineering Science (Structures & Mechanics). Prior to this, she was an associate professor in Engineering Technology at KU Leuven in Belgium, where she led a research group exploring the structural behaviour of metallic structures, with a special interest in stainless steel and harsh environments, where corrosion plays an important role.
Barbara gained ICE Carbon Champion status for her work on the Gradel Quad development in New College Oxford, which used less carbon-intensive materials and techniques to dramatically reduce the project’s embodied carbon.
Transport for London
senior project engineer
Ben is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Senior Project Engineer working at Transport for London, the local government body responsible for most of the transport network across London.
Ben was one of ICE’s first Carbon Champions in 2021 for his work on the Colindale Station Redevelopment project in North London, which I’m hoping we will hear much more about later on.
Since becoming an ICE Carbon Champion, Ben has presented the case for saving carbon on projects at an ICE event alongside Past President Rachel Skinner and fellow Carbon Champs, and contributed towards the UK Green Building Council’s programme of events at COP26.
WSP
associate net zero consultant
Dr David Jackson, associate net zero consultant at WSP, spent the early years of his career as a weather forecaster with the Met Office, which gave him an extensive view of the environmental impacts of climate change. Rather than continue predicting worsening events, he decided to change paths and help mitigate the effects of climate change.
Since completing his PhD on carbon management tools for the built environment at the University of Edinburgh, Jackson has worked at Costain, Sweco UK and WSP on embedding PAS 2080 and carbon management practices in construction projects.
An associate member of the ICE, he is also a chartered environmentalist and member of the Institute of Environmental Measurement and Assessment.
Cromwell Property Group
head of esg
Lara joined Cromwell Property Group in January 2023 after working in the construction and engineering industry for over 10 years. As Head of ESG, she works on further developing Cromwell’s existing ESG framework and aligning the ESG strategy with the business’s overall strategic objectives.
Prior to joining Cromwell, Lara was the driving force behind establishing and implementing Costain’s Climate Change Action Plan, which set out a detailed 15-year plan to transition to a net-zero organisation by 2035. She was most recently shortlisted as 2023 Net-Zero and Energy leader of the year at the edie sustainability awards (winners to be announced in March) and was named 2022 Young Person of the Year by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and Energy and Carbon Leader of the Year at the 2021 edie Awards. Lara has been the Chair of the Carbon Champion Review Panel since May 2021.
AECOM
technical director decarbonisation
Chris Landsburgh is a technical director of AECOM's Carbon and ESG practice, focusing on decarbonisation. He has led several important initiatives, assisting government departments and large-scale infrastructure projects with their decarbonisation strategies.
Chris also represents the UK in climate change discussions with the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). At AECOM, Chris provides guidance on life cycle assessments and carbon management for various international mega-projects, including High-Speed Rail, and events such as COP28. He also represents several bodies as an expert witness.
His work impacts national sustainability projects and AECOM's corporate environmental strategies. Chris's dedication to promoting sustainability and decarbonisation marks him as a key driver of environmental excellence within the construction and infrastructure sectors.
Chris' influence on AECOM's carbon management and climate strategies has been crucial in advancing sustainability and PAS 2080 (Carbon Management in Buildings and Infrastructure).
His efforts have earned him esteemed committee positions and national recognition, including becoming the first Chartered Infrastructure Engineer in 2024.
He is currently pursuing a PhD in Carbon Responsibility, building on his degrees in Civil Engineering and Environmental Management and Planning.
Department for Transport
senior policy advisor
Dr Tom Mclenachan is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Infrastructure Carbon team at the Department for Transport, UK. His work focusses on driving consistent whole life carbon assessment in infrastructure, building carbon management capability and supporting carbon reduction strategies in DfT and across Government.
He has contributed to key technical standards, for example sitting on the Technical Advisory Panel for the update to PAS 2080, and Government Guidance, such as IPA’s Best Practice in Benchmarking. He has represented Government at COP 26 and joined the ICE’s Carbon Champion Review Panel in 2022 – recognising exceptional performance in carbon reduction.
He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Equal Aqua, an international NGO that is tacking inequalities in access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in East Africa, as well as addressing associated environmental issues. Working primarily in Uganda, Equal Aqua’s flagship projects include building rainwater harvesting tanks for schools from recycled plastic bottles, leading menstrual hygiene workshops for community groups, and restoring biodiversity through tree planting and other activities. In 2020 Equal Aqua was awarded the Points of Light Commonwealth award for its pioneering work in the WASH sector.