Carbon emissions

Kingspan Technical Insulation has introduced a new carbon calculator, helping consultants to understand how pipe insulation specifications can impact whole life carbon emissions and operating costs associated with heat losses from pipework systems. The Kingspan Kooltherm Pipe Insulation Carbon Calculator ...

New partnership research between infinitSpace and Instant Group exploring the state of sustainability within the UK office market, has revealed that the office market is falling behind on environmental policies. Key findings from the research include:   Almost half (47 per ...

Infrastructure services and engineering company, Amey, has gained verification of its carbon footprint from 2019 to 2021 with the British Standards Institution (BSI). Achieving verification with the globally recognised ISO 14064-1 (quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals), ...

The recycling and resource recovery specialist has improved its carbon avoidance performance for the third consecutive year. Releasing its latest Sustainability Report, Enva announced that in the financial year to April 2022, the use of its recovered materials avoided the generation ...

The UK government is currently missing one of its core Net Zero commitments to reduce CO2 emissions by 101 years, according to the Public Building Energy Efficiency Report. CO2 emissions from public buildings need to be reduced five times faster ...

Integrated facilities management firm, Vertas, has partnered up with fleet management specialist, Trakm8, to enhance the operating efficiency of its 280-vehicle fleet, consisting of vans, pool cars, mini-buses and coaches. With a focus on fleet efficiency and carbon footprint reduction, ...

The Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) and Partners’ latest report brings together expertise from across the industry to explain why incorporating a diverse range of low-carbon technologies into heat and buildings policy is crucial to delivering Net Zero. Government policy should ...

The British Property Federation (BPF), in partnership with JLL, has released a report today that identifies the key challenges the property sector faces as it decarbonises and provides a series of policy recommendations. Access to data is a major challenge ...

Sustainable manufacturing concepts help to increase the resource efficiency of factories. With its Green Factory Solutions, Leadec offers new, green services along the entire life cycle of the factory. With these solutions, which reduce waste or energy consumption, for example, ...

Sodexo UK & Ireland has reported a 33 per cent reduction in its scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since its baseline year of 2017, equating to over 300,000 tCO2e. According to the company, the reduction in ...