The research, led by Expedition Engineering and the Useful Simple Trust, is looking into the carbon impact of enabling works.

ICE members are invited to contribute to research analysing the carbon impact of enabling infrastructure for large-scale developments and regeneration projects.
Expedition Engineering and the Useful Simple Trust are leading the project, which is backed by the ICE’s Research and Development Enabling Fund.
As part of the research, they have compiled a short online survey for ICE members, clients, designers and suppliers involved in all aspects of delivering enabling infrastructure.
Enabling infrastructure includes preparatory works (such as demolition and earthworks), access routes, drainage networks and utilities serving a site.
The research’s aim
The researchers want to gauge the sector’s levels of knowledge and practice.
Specifically, on how clients and designers currently consider and manage the embodied carbon impacts of enabling infrastructure throughout the delivery stages of a project.
They are particularly interested in the impact of early-stage planning and design decisions.
They’re also aiming to understand the barriers to effective carbon management in the value chain.
They want to pinpoint factors that could help to significantly reduce the footprint of enabling infrastructure.
The ICE Research and Development (R&D) Fund
The Research and Development Enabling Fund exists to support ICE members and non-members working on R&D projects in aid of the membership and the wider infrastructure sector.
For further information, visit the fund’s web page.
If you have any queries about the survey or you’d like to discuss a potential fund application, please email [email protected].
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