Whether you’re starting
on your low carbon
journey or want to move
up to the next level,
we can help you to:
• Develop and
communicate low
carbon targets
• Establish baselines
and measure project
performance
Carbon:
the new
bottom line
Advisory and assurance services
to help you cut emissions and costs
Carbon is fast catching up with cost as
a measure of efficiency in the infrastructure
industry. Introduction of the infrastructure
industry’s first standard for managing carbon,
PAS 2080, will accelerate the pace of change.
We can help you achieve low carbon,
lower cost outcomes systematically,
in a way that is repeatable and changes
your business for better, for good.
• Build knowledge
and skills
• Create the necessary
business information
and reporting systems
• Strengthen the
confidence of investors
and regulators
Making carbon
mainstream
In May 2016 the first carbon
management standard for
infrastructure was launched.
PAS 2080* provides a common
framework for managing carbon
across all sectors of the infrastructure
industry – communications, power,
transport, waste and water. It
enables all members of the value
chain to make carbon management
a central part of their strategies
when delivering infrastructure projects
and programmes of work.
Less carbon, better business
– how we can help you
1.
Let’s find out what your
current level of ‘carbon
maturity’ is. It’s a simple and
swift Q&A exercise but a great
way of revealing to us – and
you – where your strengths
and weaknesses are… what will
help propel you forward and
where action is needed.
3.
PAS 2080 is voluntary. But it will assist in making
carbon reduction increasingly mainstream in the
business agenda. It is likely that companies will
be expected to show they are following PAS 2080
processes, or equivalent, in future.
PAS 2080 at a glance
Do your business leaders give
carbon reduction their full support?
Strong, high profile, long-term
leadership is a prerequisite.
Without it you can’t pass ‘go’.
Leadership
Governance
Carbon management process
Target setting
You also need robust and effective
governance for the carbon
management process. It provides
the framework and the rigour for
setting reduction targets, establishing
baselines to measure emissions
against, and monitoring performance.
Monitoring
Baselines
End of life
Operation
Handover and closeout
Construction and commissioning
Design
Concept and brief
Brief
Strategy
Quantification of carbon emissions
Challenge the status quo to drive low carbon actions
Adapted from PAS 2080
Carbon reduction
Reporting
Continual improvement
Work stages of infrastructure delivery
Once you’ve worked out the right
carbon reduction strategy for your
business and your activities, you’re
ready to quantify your carbon
emissions. Findings need to be
reported back into the project to
ensure that targets are being met
– and hopefully beaten! And you
should be learning as you go so that
each project is better than the last.
The magic ingredient in achieving
carbon reduction is innovation.
PAS 2080 provides the framework
for you to challenge the status quo
and encourages you to find solutions
that are radically more efficient
than business as usual.
* PAS 2080 was co-written by Mott MacDonald
and published by the British Standards Institution
We’ll train, share information
and if needed help you recruit
staff to create the knowhow
in your company to continue
managing down carbon long
after our role has ceased.
5.
Your staff and suppliers hold
the keys to success: we’ll
help you to communicate
the vision and the benefits
(and can suggest commercial
incentives if you’d like) to get
them engaged and active in
helping you reach your goals.
2.
PAS 2080 sets out the need
for governance, data, targets,
tools and reporting. But every
business is different. We’ll help
you put in place the right
‘components’ for yours.
4.
Using our BIM-compatible
modelling tool, Carbon Portal,
we’ll help you pinpoint the
carbon hot spots in your
projects and programmes,
and identify more carbonand cost-efficient solutions.
6.
And we’ll enable you to
gain the greatest possible
benefits by bringing the right
players on board at the right
time, so that they can share
ideas and advice, innovate
and collaborate.
“Until now, businesses have had
to steer their own carbon cutting
agendas, using the example of
leading clients. PAS 2080 provides
much needed guidance. For most,
complying with PAS 2080 will lead
to a complete rethink of business
as usual.”
Scott Steedman, director of standards,
British Standards Institution
20 years’ experience
at your command
Ever since the agenda began to
bite in the 1990s, we have been
working with the infrastructure
sector’s most progressive clients
to drive capital down and operational
carbon. We’ve been in the front
line, developing technical, cultural,
management and commercial
innovations that have helped
a number of industry leaders
achieve beacon status.
Working with us you get experience
of driving low carbon outcomes
in the transport, power, water,
communications and waste sectors.
That’s practical know-how gained by
developing and delivering capital and
operational projects, modelling and
decision support tools, business plans
and contracts, and engagement and
communications plans.
You gain access to the infrastructure
industry’s most comprehensive carbon
and cost dataset, and benchmark data
enabling comparison of projects and
programmes of work.
And you receive support from expert
practitioners. If you need help to build
low carbon capacity, we can second
specialists. These are people who
have been with low carbon leaders
like Anglian Water, National Grid,
Network Rail and Highways England
on their journeys; and key members
of the author teams behind the
Government’s Infrastructure Carbon
Review and PAS 2080.
Build confidence through expert
independent certification
Your board, shareholders, investors,
insurers and regulators will be
looking for reassurance that carbon
management is effective and reduction
promises are being kept. And statutory
carbon reporting is likely to become
much more common across the
infrastructure industry.
Third party audit and certification
provides the rigour and transparency
your stakeholders demand.
PAS 2080 recommends that all
members of the value chain, from
clients to suppliers, gain certification
from an accredited body in order
to verify and validate their carbon
management process and results.
If they choose not to use an accredited
body, their systems and reporting
should comply with the standards
used by accredited bodies.
MMRA is a wholly independent
assurance body owned by
Mott MacDonald. It is UKAS accredited
to ISO/IEC 17021:2011, the international
standard for impartial assessment,
certification and registration of
management systems.
Unlike all other assurance bodies,
MMRA can call on the deep technical
expertise of its parent group:
Mott MacDonald is one of the global
top 20 engineering consultancy
firms and, as co-author of both the
UK Government’s Infrastructure
Carbon Review and PAS 2080,
one of the world’s leading providers
of low carbon engineering and
management solutions.
Become PAS 2080 certified and…
• Demonstrate that the necessary
management systems are in place
to control carbon and cost
• Show that precautions
and provisions are being
handled correctly
• Improve your rating with financial
and regulatory stakeholders
• Signal your low carbon commitment
to staff and suppliers
Need help cutting carbon and cost?
Talk to us:
Assurance:
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Buildings:
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Power:
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Transport:
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Water:
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Whole-life carbon management:
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