Tag Archives: Sustainability

The ICE and the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) are hosting a free online event about making infrastructure more sustainable.

The event will present two different policy tools: Unep’s International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure and the ICE-led Enabling Better Infrastructure guidance. It will also showcase ways that officials and…

Getting engineers to live, breathe and deliver on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals is the ambition of the ICE’s new President Keith Howells.

When the United Nations’ (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were first launched in 2015, the ambition was to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030.…

The number of sustainability directors and environmental leads within the construction sector has seen a meteoric rise within the past decade.

Net zero targets and the growing understanding of the climate emergency has created the need to build things more efficiently. To do so, many contractors, consultants and clients alike have…

The construction industry faces urgent sustainability risks and finding solutions to the challenges we face requires looking at the issues from a multi-dimensional point of view.

One of the most critical challenges is that the built environment contributes 39% of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with the construction industry…

There’s a lot of talk about net zero. Everyone’s heard of it and it is ubiquitous across business and the media, but what do we really mean when we talk about net zero?

The Office for National Statistics defines net zero for the UK as the point at which “…the…

Fully adopting sustainable practices has the potential to move construction from being climate villains to climate heroes but there is still a lot of work to do. 

Climate resilience, circularity and net zero are now common parlance in the civil engineering sector and the industry has come a long way in…

There are opportunities as well as challenges in readying infrastructure to cope with climate change.

Designing infrastructure to ensure that it remains resilient in the face of climate change is becoming more urgent – but effective adaptation involves more than just making it tougher or bigger.  There is increasing awareness that…

A change of mindset among construction firms and their clients is essential to meet net zero target, according to the panel of industry experts at Copper Consultancy’s 'Net Zero: A Material Consideration' event.

Murphy & Sons group director of safety, health, environmental and sustainability John Kinirons believes that one of obstacles…

Over two thirds (67%) of Network Rail’s suppliers have signed up to the organisation’s Science Based Targets initiative, which focuses on the reduction of its carbon emissions.

The initiative, part of Network Rail’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy announced in 2020, sets targets to limit carbon emissions according to a 1.5°C degree global…

A new report by engineering consultancy Patrick Parsons, based on interviews with 100 senior executives of UK construction firms that have been collectively involved in £26.6bn projects last year, has demonstrated the industry’s increasing focus on sustainable design.  

The findings of the Sustainable by design report indicate that construction firms…