Insights from leading experts into the main developments in British Standards, including PAS 2080 Carbon Management in Infrastructure as an industry game changer. Speakers with first-hand experience will highlight how this specification (PAS) is helping the sector address key challenges and opportunities for energy and carbon reduction. BSi will provide a briefing on PAS 2080 and other key standards, PAS 2050 on carbon footprint and PAS 2060 on carbon neutrality that can help organisations reduce carbon emissions and improve business practice to support sustainability goals.

1. Construction and PAS 2050 at
the Carbon Trust
Dr John Kazer
john.kazer@carbontrust.com
+44 (0)20 3944 0968
12/12/2018

2. Agenda
■ Status of PAS 2050 at Carbon Trust
■ What can you do?
■ Case studies
- Construction materials
- Fixtures and fittings
- Machinery
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3. Carbon Trust and standards
■ Energy policy & technology development
■ Energy efficiency advice & audit
■ GHG footprints, certification, labelling
■ There’s a standard for that…
- (PAS 2080)
- PAS 2050, 10 years on
- ISO 14067
- BS EN 15978
- Science-based Targets, Scope 3
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4. What can you do?
■ Quite a lot…
■ Approaches to sustainable construction
- Collaboration or go it alone
- Inventory vs neutrality
- Footprints vs targets
- Management systems vs specific items
- Products vs services
- Comparisons and reduction
- Building operation vs construction
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5. Footprint list
■ Materials
- Holcim cement
- Marshalls paving
- Bio-based paints
- Metalsider pig iron -> steel
- Collaboration
- Pipe insulation material
■ Fixtures & fittings
- Arauco laminated wood panels
- Carbon neutral
- Formica panels
- Full range (20,000 SKUs)
- Dyson hand dryers
- Comparisons to paper towels
- Polythene UK plastic wrap
- Carbon neutral
■ Equipment
- JCB Diggers
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6. Some case studies
■ Metalsider pig iron (& steel)
■ JCB diggers
■ Holcim cement
■ Polythene UK plastic film
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7. Pig iron and steel
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8. The Carbon Trust worked with JCB to carry out a whole life cycle analysis of JCB’s backhoe loader,
and provide insight and recommendations oh how to reduce the associated environmental impact
› The Carbon Trust developed a lifecycle
footprint model that established the
carbon and cost impact of detailed
engineering component-based design
› This resulted in significant re-
design extending the product life
and reduced the impact of the use-
stage. Advice was provided on
changing of the business based on
total life cycle cost of ownership
› Significant opportunities were
identified in JCB’s own operations
and within their supply chain
Product design innovationCase Study
JCB
20% carbon reduction
10-30% energy cost savings identified
£10,000-£120,000 supply chain savings
£2 million
Operational
savings

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In a competitive product market where the price, quality,
availability of your products closely match our competitors, it is
our products environmental credentials that are increasingly
seen by buyers/specifiers as the next real differentiator.
Eva Carranza, Project Manager, Sustainable Development
The Carbon Trust worked with Holcim to enable all group companies to calculate and report their
Product Carbon Footprints of ready-mix in a consistent manner that could be externally verified
› The Carbon Trust worked with Holcim to:
› Ensure harmonization, credibility
and comparability across the
group’s carbon footprinting
activities for RMX products
› Stimulated marketing and sale
strategies and customer choices
towards the product with the
lowest CO2e footprint for a specific
application
› Ensure common understanding of
product footprints, enabling the
management and communication
of the risks and opportunities
Reviewing client carbon footprint methodologyCase Study
Holcim
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By working with the Carbon Trust to better understand the
lifecycle impacts of our biopolyethylene bags we can be
confident that they are in fact carbon neutral, which helps us to
provide our clients with a more sustainable product.
James Woollard, Managing Director
Polythene UK shows the circular-economy potential bioplastics with carbon neutral polyethylene
bags
› The Carbon Trust calculated the carbon
footprint of biopolyethylene plastic bags to
PAS2060
› This material was certified as carbon
neutral
› The CO2 absorbed by the sugar
cane Is greater than the total
emissions from the processing and
transportation of raw materials to
the UK, as well as energy used in
manufacturing
› Energy for the process is from
sugar cane residue ‘bagasse’ used
as biofuel in a combined HP plant.
Carbon Neutral certification for bioplasticsCase Study
Polythene UK
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Good design and environmental responsibility go hand in
hand. By considering the environment from the start, our
engineers develop machines that are more powerful, perform
better and work using less energy and materials.
James Dyson, Inventor
Enabling accurate understanding of the effect of design innovation and changes on product
environmental performance
› Dyson wanted to measure the total carbon
footprint of the Dyson Airblade and
compare it against
› traditional hand driers
› paper towels
› Working with the Carbon Trust Dyson was
able to reduce the environmental impact
and energy consumption during the use-
phase of the product
› Dyson uses the footprinting label in
advertising, sales brochures and exhibits in
more than 20 countries globally
Enabling sustainable product designCase Study
Dyson
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Dr John Kazer
john.kazer@carbontrust.com
+44 (0)20 3944 0968