How can embodied carbon data be used and included within Scope 3 emissions reporting? The UKGBC wants to the industry’s answer.

The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) launched this week a free-to-access benchmark tool for infrastructure carbon assessment in the UK construction industry.

The construction industry must maintain its commitment to decarbonisation even as the government back-pedals. That’s the message from those involved in the Built Environment Carbon Database, which will launch next week.

Atkins has teamed up with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create digital tools for airports to estimate the embodied carbon in new structures.

Hard data and robust benchmarks are needed for commercial offices to successfully address both embodied and operational carbon. That’s the key finding from a new British Council for Offices report.

The construction supply chain needs clarity on carbon measurement if net zero targets are to be achieved. That’s the key finding from a survey conducted by Balfour Beatty and the Supply Chain Sustainability School

Aecom is set to use carbon emissions analysis software on road projects to help develop more sustainable designs.

The draft version of PAS 2080:2022 Carbon management in buildings and infrastructure is now out for consultation.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.

If the construction industry is meet the Net Zero challenge, it must over come its weakness: carbon reporting, according to Skanska UK head of environment David Mason.

Experts from carbon- and innovation-focused working group Zero consider the challenge of calculating and reducing carbon.

Construction professionals must become life-cycle literate and understand environmental product declarations for the sector to meet climate change demands, the Global Cement and Concrete Association has declared.

Atkins parent SNC-Lavalin has launched a data-driven decarbonisation service for the existing built environment, known as Decarbonomics.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.

The new carbon- and innovation-focused working group Zero has provided further details of its plans for next year following its official launch at the recent Digital Construction Week.

James Bowles teases the launch of a new initiative to address construction’s approach to sustainability, Zero, which is due to launch at Digital Construction Week on 24 November. Construction is…

A common carbon database for the built environment is being developed by a consortium of the sector’s associations and institutions and will be launched in stages next year.