The document introduces five new sustainability applications developed by URS Scott Wilson to help clients achieve resilience in the face of climate change: 1) The Sustainability Strategy Analysis Tool helps project teams evaluate sustainability initiatives based on cost, return, and benefits throughout a project's lifecycle. 2) The Whole Life Cost/Carbon Tool calculates the whole life costs and carbon emissions of different road maintenance options to aid decision making. 3) Rapid Energy Modelling enables evaluation of building energy usage and design changes to reduce costs and emissions. 4) The Adapting to Climate Change Application identifies climate change risks and opportunities to prioritize project adaptation responses. 5) The Sustainability Performance Review benchmarks corporate sustainability performance to

1. Introduction Sustainability Strategy Analysis Tool (SSAT) Whole Life Cost/Carbon Tool (WLCC)
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URS Scott Wilson is developing solutions for our clients that will SSAT is a decision support app for infrastructure project teams to make The WLCC app allows highway managers to evaluate whole life financial
help them achieve resilience in the face of a rapidly changing informed choices about sustainability initiatives based on cost, rate of costs and carbon emissions for different road maintenance options.
return and programme.
environment.
WLCC enables users to calculate both
Fuel-cell buses Safer communities
whole life cost and carbon footprint for a
Challenges are coming from all quarters – adapting to climate range of different pavement maintenance
options providing integrated decision-
change, switching to low carbon systems, de-risking energy,
Education provision
making capability without the need for
storage
catchment &
Rainwater
Local health services
water and critical resources supply, and responsibly sourcing multiple tools. Food production
materials and components while reducing costs and contributing
Solar panels
The WLCC app:
to community life. • Incorporates a generic cost/carbon Five New Applications from URS Scott Wilson
database derived from peer-reviewed
data available in the public domain
These combined pressures are creating unique opportunities • Allows highways managers to Adapting to a Sustainable Future
for innovation throughout the lifecycle of our infrastructure and understand the cost/carbon
proportionality associated with
everyday products. alternative treatment options and
helps with selection of preferred
options
While URS Scott Wilson has been offering bespoke
sustainability development services to our clients for more Identifying the cost saving and performance benefits of integrating sustainability at each The WLCC app can be used by:
phase of a major infrastructure project can be a real challenge. • URS Scott Wilson design teams,
than 20 years, we have recently embarked on a global effort to
adding value to preliminary designs
mainstream and embed sustainability thinking and approaches SSAT addresses and scores 13 sustainability themes, providing concise tabular • Highway PFI consortia to optimise
throughout our services. reporting and scenario evaluation at regular intervals during the project cycle. It is design sustainability
designed to: • Local authorities to optimise their short
• Be applicable to any development / infrastructure project / medium-term maintenance budget
As part of this Sustainability Challenge we have developed • Facilitate forward planning at the beginning of each project phase
• Provide programme-specific information for sustainability opportunities WLCC has initially been applied to road
new applications that directly address climate change and • Provide cost and rate of return information for sustainability opportunities maintenance activities – future scope
sustainability and the first five of these Apps are presented here. • Account for corporate reporting and draws on a database of case studies will be extended to other major linear
infrastructure.
Rapid Energy Modelling (REM) Adapting to Climate Change Application (ACCA) Sustainability Performance Review (SPR)
REM is an innovative technique that uses 3D building assessment to ACCA allows users to identify the potential impacts of climate change on SPR is a sustainability “health check” for corporations, allowing them to
create powerful, accurate energy models for simulating design changes their projects and how resilience to these impacts can be increased. benchmark their performance against a wide range of categories and
or building improvements. identify areas for improvement.
Climate change is expected to have
significant implications for the design,
construction and maintenance of buildings
and infrastructure. ACCA can help
infrastructure owners and managers
understand the climate change risks and
opportunities related to their projects, and
develop prioritised adaptation responses. Scott Wilson is now part of URS Corporation.
URS Scott Wilson offers an expanded portfolio of professional services,
ACCA is applicable to design, construction access to increased professional and technical resources and a broader
and maintenance projects across the network of offices throughout the world.
buildings, transportation, water, energy
and waste sectors in all regions of the
world.
REM enables the rapid evaluation of capex scenarios, allowing for the development of ACCA is designed to:
optimal solutions to: • Provide a summary of the main likely
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• Reduce CO2 emissions • Estimate the likelihood and magnitude Owing to increasing global public is a checklist system and asks a series of
• Enhance the quality of a buildings environment of these impacts through a simple risk awareness, connectivity and stakeholder questions around the themes of:
and probability assessment demands, there is rising demand • Energy efficiency 100%
REM provides unprecedented insight into the energy performance of buildings based on • Facilitate the selection of the most for corporations to present their • Green buildings
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their specific design and usage including: effective and realistic adaptation environmental, social and governance • Supply chain management
• Accurate energy and carbon footprint based on 3D building performance model – no responses activities. These are measured by market • Carbon footprinting
need for drawings or legacy data intelligence reports, sustainable stock • Management and reporting
• Identification of largest energy uses within the building and anomalies like poorly listings and corporate rankings.
controlled plant SPRs diagnostic approach provides a For further information please contact:
• Rapid simulation of improvement scenarios including building fabric and glazing, The wide-ranging nature of the strategic overview that can be followed robert.spencer@scottwilson.com
lighting design, HVAC and renewable technologies sustainability agenda can make it difficult up with more detailed appraisal and
• Modelling of the building environment including day lighting levels and thermal for a corporation to assess its overall recommendations on specific areas of
comfort performance and identify where efforts to concern.
improve should best be focussed. SPR www.urs-scottwilson.com

2. Adapting to a Sustainable Future
Sustainable food
&
agriculture
Sustainable air transport
Wind turbines
Biomass Forests
& Ports
Brownfield developments water Sustainable logistics
management Flood defence
Functional
floodplain
Integrated
Smart Grids
Adapting the Urban Marine current turbines
Infrastructure
District heating networks
Energy Digital communications & IT
mix Ground source heating
Anaerobic digestion Combined heat
&
power plants Transport hubs -
High speed rail -
Public transport -
Low Carbon Future
City Living
Solar panels
Green roofs & green walls
through
Food production
Behavioural Change
Retrofitting
buildings
Local health services
Rainwater
catchment &
storage
Education provision
Local amenities
Zero carbon homes
Farmer’s market
Waste recycling
Play areas
& open space SUDS Local produce
Safer communities Fuel-cell buses
Electric cars
Renewable Social Transport & Green
& Low Carbon Energy Infrastructure Logistics Waste Water Design & Planning Infrastructure
Creating energy from natural and local Ensuring that regeneration includes schools, Moving people and goods the most energy Reducing waste, using waste as a resource for Conserving our water resources, while Utilising best practice solutions to deliver a Using the natural environment to absorb
sources, such as energy from waste, district health and recreation facilities to create efficient way whilst supporting the regeneration recycling and energy, and transporting it maximising their use for transport and energy high quality sustainable future at local and surface water, provide alternative transport,
heating, combined heat and power, offshore sustainable communities of high streets and town centres effectively generation regional level produce food and energy and cool our cities
wind and biomass
Sustainability Help Desk
Alex Tosetti Tel: +44 (0)208 944 3424 Mob: +44 (0)7803 627 116 Email: alex_tosetti@urscorp.com Robert Spencer Tel: +44 (0)1256 315 107 Mob: +44 (0)7765 242 482 Email: robert.spencer@scottwilson.com