The drive for sustainable construction
The construction industry is responsible for around 40% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
Hence, much needed regulations are now coming into force in the US and across the globe, to help slow down our global warming rate and keep emissions to safer levels. It is clear our industry must take action and fast.
As a result, many of our clients are asking us how to best respond to these regulatory pressures, ensuring that they are playing their part to reduce carbon emissions, while their projects run to time and budget. In my new role, as the lead of US Business Sustainability, I will be responsible for helping our clients navigate this. My background in construction costs and the knowledge we have on business intelligence and embodied carbon, will support clients from a range of sectors to establish accurate budgets and project plans to support their sustainability goals and challenges.
In this edition of our market overview report we focus on just this. Upon review of the expected forecasts for construction costs, we examine the opportunities and considerations needed to be taken to enable sustainable construction projects.
Source: Forbes.com
We are all used to quantifying, managing and comparing costs to budgeted expenses. But are you quantifying, managing and analyzing embodied carbon? Without knowing our carbon baseline, we cannot measure or track improvement. Whole-life carbon estimating can help solve this problem by establishing a baseline. Analytics that combine embodied carbon and costs can help you understand how to reduce embodied carbon in a cost-effective manner.
Rachel Personius Associate Director, U.S.
The drive for sustainable construction
The construction industry is responsible for around 40% of total global greenhouse gas emissions.
Hence, much needed regulations are now coming into force in the US and across the globe, to help slow down our global warming rate and keep emissions to safer levels. It is clear our industry must take action and fast.
As a result, many of our clients are asking us how to best respond to these regulatory pressures, ensuring that they are playing their part to reduce carbon emissions, while their projects run to time and budget. In my new role, as the lead of US Business Sustainability, I will be responsible for helping our clients navigate this. My background in construction costs and the knowledge we have on business intelligence and embodied carbon, will support clients from a range of sectors to establish accurate budgets and project plans to support their sustainability goals and challenges.
In this edition of our market overview report we focus on just this. Upon review of the expected forecasts for construction costs, we examine the opportunities and considerations needed to be taken to enable sustainable construction projects.
Source: Forbes.com
We are all used to quantifying, managing and comparing costs to budgeted expenses. But are you quantifying, managing and analyzing embodied carbon? Without knowing our carbon baseline, we cannot measure or track improvement. Whole-life carbon estimating can help solve this problem by establishing a baseline. Analytics that combine embodied carbon and costs can help you understand how to reduce embodied carbon in a cost-effective manner.
Rachel Personius Associate Director, U.S.