The Carbon Project

Chair: Kat Ibbotson - Programme carbon and cost manager – Environment Agency

The net zero challenge, in all its scale and complexity, requires a cross-industry response with collaboration at its heart. An open approach to carbon reporting will hasten industry transformation and bolster collaborative efforts. The whole value chain – including asset owner/managers, designers, constructors and product/material suppliers – should be able to contribute to and benefit from these developments.

With thanks to the following working group members:

Chair: Steve Denton - Executive Director & Head of Civil, Bridge and Ground Engineering at WSP

Making progress on net zero carbon design and delivery against the demands of clients, society and pressures on costs requires new skills, refreshed knowledge and professional support, especially when it comes to new regulations, challenging design standards and codes, specification of zero carbon solutions and designing for automated delivery.

With thanks to the following working group members:

Chair: Tim Chapman – Director - Arup

Infrastructure is heavily networked and interconnected, composed of ‘systems within systems’. Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with its use therefore requires a strategic approach. As the majority of the assets that will be in use by 2050 have already been built, we will have to make these assets work more efficiently, to help achieve the net zero target.

The Covid-19 pandemic is an opportunity to ask searching questions of what society truly wants from its infrastructure systems, and whether long-term demand will continue to increase unchecked.

With thanks to the following working group members: