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Infrastructure design has a key role to play in the decarbonization of the built environment. “Infrastructure designers have to move away from the traditional thinking of designing infrastructure,” says Dr. Heleni Pantelidou, Associate Director Infrastructure, Arup. Since the carbon footprint of infrastructure is a big part of the national carbon footprint, infrastructure design plays a […]

The potential for innovation in the construction material sector is huge. Some key issues to look at are the waste phase and the reuse of materials as well as policy innovations and extending knowledge in the sector. Mats Wendel, Innovation Advisor at Swerock AB/Peab Asfalt AB in Sweden, thinks that the greatest driver for innovation […]

The Carbon Infrastructure Transformation Tool (CITT) project seeks to develop an open access software tool for calculating and managing embodied carbon emissions for infrastructure construction projects. To deliver maximum value, the project also investigates the potential barriers and solutions to the adoption of carbon management within the infrastructure sector. This stage of the project is […]

The CCC research project Impres has now completed case studies in USA, Australia, UK, Netherlands and Sweden. The Impres team has interviewed key actors in major infrastructure projects on their experiences from implementing procurement requirements for reduced carbon emissions during construction, operation and maintenance. Stefan Uppenberg, WSP project manager for the Impres project, and Anna […]

Around 38 percent of global energy related emissions come from building and construction. Leadership, procurement and innovation are key to being able to reduce carbon emissions in the industry, says Terri Wills, CEO, World Green Building Council (WGBC). Since the construction and infrastructure industry plays a huge role in producing greenhouse gas emissions there is […]

Skanska is a world leading project development and construction group and has had a leading role in developing the roadmap to implement Sweden’s low carbon plan 2045.  While leading the process Skanska has succeeded in gathering the whole sector around common targets for carbon. “The construction industry is a really important part of emissions in […]

In what could prove to be a first but significant step forward, participants at a recent Construction Climate Challenge seminar took the opportunity to meet and discuss possible international collaboration for making infrastructure more sustainable. “Just in Sweden alone, we see that there are several different initiatives who are all doing similar things, and we […]

Civil engineers need re-train themselves to think about how – through design – they can influence the very long operational life of infrastructure projects and make them efficient, low-carbon and fit-for-purpose for years to come, said Helen Patelidou, ARUP’s Associate Director Infrastructure at the CCC Summit ‘The Road to Carbon-Neutral Infrastructure’. Engineers in general are […]

The Sweden Green Building Council (SGBC) has been a pioneer in focusing on low carbon infrastructure,” says CEO, Cecilia Ehrenborg Williams. Speaking at the CCC Summit in Gothenburg, 19 June, she said: “We have a sense of urgency when it comes to really trying to fix it by being carbon neutral by 2050 and the […]

Speaking at the CCC Summit in Gothenburg 19 June, Mats Landén of WWF stressed the importance of business building sustainability into their business models. “From the business perspective, sustainability is at the end of the day really what needs to happen as a standard procedure for any business. Simply speaking, if you are not sustainable […]

When Volvo CE joined the WWF Climate Savers programme it committed to reducing CO2 by 7 million tonnes in 5 years. It is fully on track to achieve this and is even ahead of the target, said Thomas Bitter, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product Portfolio, Volvo CE. Speaking at the CCC Summit in […]

Summarising the CCC Summit ‘The Road to Carbon Neutral Infrastructure’ held in Gothenburg 19 June, conference moderator Dr Paul Toyne said the keys are collaboration and integrated supply chains. “What we need is collaboration, and that means we need to have integrated supply chains so we all understand what we are trying to achieve and […]