Five Client Carbon Commitments: Setting A Path To Net Zero Construction

This week saw the launch of Five Client Carbon Commitments, a five-point plan for the construction industry to transition to net zero.

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This week saw the launch of Five Client Carbon Commitments, a five-point plan for the construction industry to transition to net zero.
Five Client Carbon Commitments

Five Client Carbon Commitments is a client-led initiative which comprises five commitments or pledges for client organisations:

1. Procure for low carbon construction and provide incentives in our contracts
2. Set phase out dates for fossil fuel use
3. Eliminate the most carbon intensive concrete products
4. Eliminate the most carbon intensive steel products
5. Adopt PAS 2080, Carbon Management in Infrastructure, as a common standard

Andrew Kidd, Director of Environmental Sustainability at Lower Thames Crossing, has been closely involved in the development of the plan. Andrew kindly shared details of the Five Client Carbon Commitments ahead of the launch to the MPA sustainability ambassadors at a recent meet-up of the network and also at the sustainability seminar, No Planet B! So what can I do?, in April.

MPA Executive Director, Andy Murray, commented: “Constructzero is a great industry initiative aligned to the recommendations from our own Net Zero Position Paper that we launched alongside COP26. The power of this initiative is its simplicity of the pledges focusing on five areas where construction can make the biggest impact – using an A to E scale in the style of energy performance ratings familiar to us all brings to life practical steps we can take to move from E to A as quickly and as deliberately as we can. The Major Projects Association endorses and supports this great initiative.”

Details of the Five Client Carbon Commitments can be found here.

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