Barriers to low-carbon design: what are they and how can we overcome them?

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.

Eleana Savvidi laments the resistance that engineers can face when proposing lower-carbon solutions, but urges members to stand firm against misguided pushback.

Kate Simonen has been promoting the cause of embodied carbon reduction in structures for the past decade through the Carbon Leadership Forum.