Carbon-reduction measures – cutting through the pushback

Setting company-wide carbon targets for projects is an effective way to bring about behavioural change within a firm, leading to widespread carbon accounting and reductions across a firm's portfolio. This report summarises a roundtable held to discuss barriers and opportunities for setting targets within firms.

David Leversha, Diego Padilla-Philipps and Emma Francois explain how their firm, WSP, has approached its decarbonisation goals and what progress it has made in the past five years.

Claire Thomas explores how her practice has fared regarding low-carbon design solutions, and asks what the construction industry can do to encourage low-carbon outcomes.