Buildings and construction

Overview

If you want to understand where the carbon impacts arise in your construction projects so that you can make effective decisions around carbon reduction, then we can help.

BioRegional has technical expertise in sustainable construction that allows us to provide a specialist carbon footprinting and embodied carbon assessment service for buildings and construction materials. We use a variety of techniques and tools, and our flexibility allows us to choose the most appropriate method for the required outcome and available data.

We will work with you to determine your requirements, collecting and analysing the data to give you what you need. 

Case study

London 2012 Media Centre carbon footprint

Client: Carillion 

Carillion is the principal contractor for the Media Centre on the Olympics site in east London. BioRegional has been working with Carillion on-site to deliver sustainability integration since 2009. In 2011 we undertook a study to review the carbon footprint associated with the building of the Media Centre. 

The study includes an assessment of the carbon embodied in the materials used, energy used on-site during construction,  emissions from transporting materials, staff travel, temporary buildings and catering. Carillion will use the information to compare the project’s performance against future projects and to ensure that low carbon construction is embedded in the organisation.

The  client report also covers the methodology that we used to calculate the carbon footprint, and highlights ways that this could be made easier in future. We also gave recommendations  to Carillion to help make carbon footprinting simpler and more cost effective in the future.