Fusion21 Carbon CO2 Emissions

It is essential that goods and services are procured and implemented in a way that not only achieves value for money but also delivers real long-term benefits to businesses, society and the economy, whilst minimising damage to the environment.

Fusion21 has founded its self on an ability to maximise the effect that its supply chain programmes have on local communities and the economy. With ambitious national carbon reduction targets in place, Fusion21 are now striving to help all of its supply chain partners to minimise the effects their activities have on the environment whilst also driving for further efficiency gains.

To Manage you must Measure - ConstructCO2 allows this by providing a simple, practical and systematic approach to measuring emissions associated with construction project activities. It enables Project Teams to re-engineer their design, procurement, logistics and construction processes to minimise their footprint.

To manage you must first measure - ConstructCO2 is important in providing a simple, practical and systematic approach to measuring project carbon emissions. The ConstructionCo2 aims at reducing the carbon emission of the industry by measuring, mapping, and managing the carbon performance of onsite construction activities. It answers the questions such as: what is the actual carbon emission of the construction activities on your project? What is the share of each construction activity to the emission? How carbon emission can be reduced through re-engineering their design, procurement, logistics and project planning?

In addition ConstructCO2 supports a number of key environmental and sustainable construction schemes:

• ISO 14001 - Carbon emissions that arise at project level through travel of management, operatives, materials and waste, along with the fuel used on site for plant and power are often the number one environmental impact and action item for those committed to an ISO 14001 environmental management system
• Considerate Constructors Scheme Registered Site Checklist includes measuring the project carbon footprint as an issue for assessment
• Strategy for Sustainable Construction calls for a 15% reduction in carbon emissions from construction processes and associated transport by 2012 compared to 2008 levels
• Code for Sustainable Homes requires construction site impacts such as CO2 arising from site activities and from transport to and from site to be assessed and addressed
• The Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), a mandatory carbon emissions reporting and pricing scheme to cover all organisations using more than 6,000MWh per year of electricity (equivalent to an annual electricity bill of about £500,000). Initially allowances will be sold at a fixed price. From April 2013, allowances will be allocated through auctions.

Benefits: Clients, contractors and suppliers using ConstructCO2 are identifying quick win actions that reduce carbon, and generate potential savings through travel arrangements and material/supplier procurement, both on the project in question and on future projects.

ConstructCO2 will enable you to proactively measure and understand your footprint to enable improvement and reduction of additional cost.

David Johnson
dave.johnson@fusion21.co.uk
Tel: 0151 481 3035
fusion21.co.uk