Resumen de Understanding carbon factors – new guides available
At Arup, the BIPAS (Buildings and Infrastructure Priority Actions for Sustainability) team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers, funded via the firm’sinternal investment programme. We carry out research and create resources relating to sustainability, primarily for use within Arup, but shared externally when appropriate.
Our objective is to address those areas that engineers engage with on a daily basis, to enable them to address sustainability in aninformed and effective manner.
These guides are intended to help practising engineers understand the origins of carbon factors for three key construction materials: steel, timber and concrete. Asengineers, we need to understand how the carbon factors we use are determined, as well as the global impact of our decisions.
The documents provide a snapshot of the industry, highlighting carbon hotspots, as well as the major opportunities for each material that will help us on the path to net zero. The guides will be updated periodically to reflect industry changes.
In line with our Construction Declares commitments, Arup has published these guides externally via the Institution of Structural Engineers, to reach a wider audience, and to promote discussion.
