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Carbon Counting Calculators

  • Environmental Infrastructure
    CEEQUAL, PAS 2080, ICE V3 & GBC Infrastructure Bespoke Module

Carbon Counting Calculators

  • Environmental Property & Construction
  • BREEAM, Ska, ICE V3 & GBC V1 & V2
    ACAN campaign to add BR AD Z

This Presentation on GBE:

Green or Violet Materials

  • Construction/Infrastructure/Rail
    • –Are energy, carbon and labour intensive
    • –to create and maintain
  • Imported materials:
    • –High Carbon: Cement, Concrete, precast,
    • –High Energy: Reinforcement, steel, copper, other metals
    • –Carbon Sequestration: growing aggregates: C8S
    • –Biogenic Carbon Sequestration: timber, bio-based materials
      • Revert to timber sleepers: durable Hardwood not treated softwood
    • –Fossil Carbon: Asphalt, bitumen (Some fossil carbon)
    • –Fossil Carbon: Plastics, hydro-carbons, petro-chemicals
    • –High Energy & Emissions: Rail joining chemistry
  • Heavy haulage and emissions: concrete, aggregates, soil, steel, green waste:
    • –via rail v road?
  • Labour Miles: rail v trucks v trucks on rails

Material choices

  • In particular OPC cement replacement in concrete (after water, concrete is the most used material)
    • –GGBS or PFA: low carbon, Slower set
    • –OPC & GGBS or PFA blended cements: normal setting forced on by OPC
  • Risks of product or material surreptitious substitution raising the carbon count
  • Robust specifications control substitution,
    • –Policing the specification is essential
      • Be Proactive about it
  • –Get it right first time

Energy and Carbon in Rail

  • Energy In use:
    • –Energy Efficiency in production
  • Steam generators: lost opportunity? revert to steam trains!
  • Dispersed production: Local to Rail lines, along rail lines: PVs (EU examples)
    • –Energy Efficiency in distribution: HV overhead or buried cable 11,000V radiation losses
    • –Energy Efficiency in consumption
      • Catenaries? Bottom Rails? 11,000V radiation losses
  • Embodied Energy
    • –Copper & catenaries, electrical power and communications cables,
    • –Steel: rails, signalling cables, steel tube piling
    • –Galvanized steel Catenary supports,
  • Embodied Carbon
    • –Cement, Concrete
    • –Fossil carbon: Plastics, Hydro carbons, natural Asphalt, natural Bitumen,
  • Sequestered Carbon
    • –Biogenic carbon calculations: few opportunities in rail? Acoustic fences in roads
    • –Not Fossil carbon
  • Growing aggregates (rounded: not ideal for concrete or rail support)

What New Rail Infrastructure?

  • Signaling: Great Western Rail: (done)
  • Goods Yards, Train parking Yards
  • Logistics Yards: Container handling, Rail to Rail, Road to Rail to Road
  • Passenger routes: Increasing capacity
    • –Jubilee Line (done)
    • –CTRL Channel Tunnel Rail Link to London St Pancras (done)
    • –Cambs Pboro Bedford St Albans > St Pancras > South Coast (done)
    • –HS2 London to North (over budget and open purse) via SSSIs and AFs
    • –Cross rail: Queen Elizabeth Line (later still and bankrupt contracts?)
    • –Cross rail 2?
  • Stations: more platforms, more lines, ease train congestion?
    • –Birmingham, London Bridge, Reading, Cambridge, Peterborough
  • Rail to Rail Crossings > flyovers: Nuneaton, Cambridge-LKX

What New Road Infrastructure?

  • Consolidation centres & pallet services
    • –Forced by Lorry driver Working Practices Directive
      • 12,000 lorry drivers too few overnight
    • –Brexit: (Temporary?) Lorry parks
      • replacing M2 to Dover parking lanes
  • Potholes repairs
  • Central reservation barrier improvements (finished)
  • Bridge/Flyover load capacity improvements (finished EU wide)
  • Digital Technology cable laying (G5)
  • Digital mapping below road services (Ongoing?)
  • Road improvements? (local to GBE)
    • –A604 > A14 (M1/M6 to A1) dual carriageway and lorry laybys
    • –A1 > A1M Huntingdon A14 to Peterborough A1
    • –A1 to M1 Bedford Bypass
    • –A1 upgrades by-passing roundabouts
    • –A14: A1 to M11 increase capacity (opened 1 year early)

Green Infrastructure?

  • Green Grids
    • –Green Spaces and linking corridors
  • Blue ribbons
    • –Water bodies, SuDS, rivers, canals, dykes,
  • Often associated with Grey (Road and Rail) Infrastructure modifications
  • Critically important especially with COVID
    • –Socially and mentally important places
    • –Support Biodiversity recovery

Who is commissioning/Funding Infrastructure/rail?

  • Government <80% Rail
    • –Network Rail?
  • Local Government 10% Rail
  • Private: >5% Goods Yards
  • Private: 95% Energy: Wind and PV (+Gov. FIT? RHI?)
  • Image: Graph see Slideshow

Who designs and specifies?

  • Stations and other buildings:
    • –Starchitects to get planning
      • NF: How heavy are your buildings
        • –(ignoring his foundations) (ignoring lightweight buildings overheat > A/C)
        • –Asked to leave Architects Declare to carry on designing holiday airports
      • BA: In use impacts, for some decades
        • –promoted BRE GGTS before it was scrutinised and found wanting
    • –Passivhaus Designers: In use impacts not embodied
      • AECB Embodied Carbon Plug in developed and available now
    • –ACAN: Championing Embodied Carbon and Use of timber against fire
    • –LETI: Championing Energy in use and Embodied Carbon
    • –Greenies: WLC Embodied and In Use, as always
  • Routes:
    • –Civil Engineers
    • –Rail Engineers
    • –Bridge Engineers
    • –Tunnel Engineers
    • –Water & Utilities Engineers
    • –Landscape Architects
      • Ecologists
      • Archeologists

Sustainable Infrastructure?

  • Contracts?
    • PFI or PPP (Do they still do them?) Focus on money, lax on spec
      • Superseded by better systems in Scotland
  • Carbon targets: Implementation by:
    • Development Control?
    • Planning? Land owners?
    • Building Control? Pending BRADZ
  • Railways England?
    • National Rail Design Standards
    • National Rail Specification?
  • Highways England
    • DoT Standards
    • National Road Specification?
  • Guidance
    • –Missed opportunity: No promotion just updated and reissued
      • Example recycled content permitted, what about carbon?
    • –WRAP’s Aggregain website: no longer funded, so gone
    • –Earth Exchange website: also gone

Sustainable Engineering Specification?

  • Engineer’s use Specification Templates
    • –New cover for each job
    • –List all materials and techniques Green and Violet
    • –Little or no editing to be job specific
    • –Rely on drawings to specify which where
    • –Permit greener options but do not require it
  • Concrete Mixing Plants
    • –Have two cement silos
    • –OPC & GGBS
    • –They save money by blending OPC and GGBS
    • –Just enough GGBS so you won’t notice
    • –OPC drives GGBS hydration to maintain 7 & 28 day strengths
    • –Colour difference: Warm grey not cold grey

Sustainable World & UK?

  • UN SDG United Nations 25th Sept 2015
    • –193 world leaders committed to 17 SDGs
    • –17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
  • Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
    • –UK Government Signed up 1st May 2019
  • Local authorities followed suit: without any idea how and little follow up action
  • Extinction Rebellion: frustration at lack of action by all governments
  • Greta Thunberg’s behaviour change campaign
    • –Global call to Adults to join
    • –Architects Declare: Oct 2019
    • –Construction Declare: Oct 2019
    • –Education Declare
    • –Structural & Civil Engineers Declare
    • –Interior Design Declare: March 2021
  • Dictatorship Boris:
    • –Hard Brexit/Border controls/Irish unrest/Riots
    • –Dilute Human Rights
    • –COVID Incompetence
    • –Ban all Protests no matter how bad he and his projects/actions get

UN SDG

Sustainable Government Procurement

  • Water Sector: Gov. driver: TOTEX = CAPEX + OPEX (saving £ms)
    • –Other Sector roll out? Nothing happening
  • Government Procurement: Post-Brexit:
    • –EU Procurement Rules V2: With Environment & Social requirements permitted: No longer for UK
      • CE mark Essential Requirements
        • –Environmental requirements added
        • –TC 350 and TC351 rolled out >
        • –LCA > EN 15804 > Product Category Rules > Impacts > EPD reports
      • CE mark replaced by UKCA for goods in UK Jan. ‘21
        • Logos: See Slide Show
        • –Essential requirements still relevant: but aim at BSs not ENs
    • –GPP Green Public Procurement: Still possible
      • OGC Office of Government Commerce:
        • –Gateway Process Reviews:
        • –More due diligence than spec?

UK Government Publishes others join in

  • But is anybody in the industry reading?
    • Yes: Librarian or Knowledge Manager
    • No: Everybody else is busy
  • UK Government Commitment to Net Zero Carbon 2050
    • Cover images: See Slide Show
    • Construction 2025: July 2013
    • Committee on Climate Change: May 2019:
    • The Construction Playbook: V1 Dec. 2020
  • Infrastructure
    • National Infrastructure Strategy Nov. 2020 CP 329
  • Government Soft landings

UK Government Commitment to Net Zero Carbon 2050

  • Graph: See Slide Show

Construction 2025

  • Images targets Covers: See Slideshow
  • Industrial Strategy: Government and Industry in Partnership
    • 33% lower costs
    • 50% faster delivery
    • 50% lower emissions
      • –Did anybody sign up to this?
  • July 2013
  • Discounts on top of Constructing Excellence’s
    • –10% year on year improvement challenge
  • The Construction industry is already effectively bankrupt
    • –Supported by supply chain funding Main Contractors, with 90+ days delay on payments
    • –And severe mental stress

Committee on Climate Change

The Construction Playbook V1 Dec. 2020

  • Government Guidance
  • Sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes
  • ‘Build Back Greener’
  • Cover Image: See Slide Show

Infrastructure

  • Cover See Slideshow
  • National Infrastructure Strategy Nov. 2020 CP 329
    • –Fairer Faster Greener
    • –COVID recovery
    • –Decarbonising & Climate Change Adaptation
    • –Investment plans
    • –Transport
      • Tailpipe emissions
      • EVs infrastructure
        • –but Renewable Energy too?
    • –Energy
      • More renuables % in mix
    • –Buildings (27m homes)
      • Green homes Grant (to replace GreenDeal and ECO)
      • Withdrawn April 2021 diverted to LAs
    • –Nature for Climate fund
      • 30,000 hectares of trees/year
      • To replace HS2 devastation
    • –10 Point plan for Green Industrial Revolution

London Plan Whole Life-Cycle Carbon Assessment

  • ADD2363 August 2019
  • Operational emissions
    • E.g. Heating, Hot water
  • Embodied are not currently measured
  • LETI London Energy Transformation Initiative (Campaign for better)
    • –Energy & Carbon in use and embodied
    • –Public consultation on Future Buildings Standard this week (April 2021)

Government Soft landings

  • Revised Guidance for the Public Sector
    • –on applying BS 8536:Briefing for design and construction
    • –Part 1:2015:Code of Practice for Facilities management (Buildings Infrastructure)
    • –Part 2:2016:Code of Practice for Asset management (Linear and Geographical Infrastructure)
    • –Relates strongly with BIM Level 2
      • PAS 1192 Series
      • And Government Soft landings
  • –Freely available to download (Allegedly: dead link from NBS)

Environment Sectors Prepares

  • LCA Life Cycle Assessment & EPD Environmental Product Declarations
    • –Method: Normalising to EN 15804:2012, over last decade +AMD A1 2013 +AMD A2
    • –Sequestered Carbon Method, outside of EN 15804 boundaries
      • Biogenic carbon, EN 16449:2014
    • –Manufacturers: 9000 EPDs in market plenty are in construction materials
  • LCA is a broader set of impacts, but we must focus on:
    • –Embodied carbon, ≈ CAPEX
    • –Sequestered Carbon, Biogenic carbon, Timber and Bio-based materials
      • EN 16449:2014 (we might not be in EU but standards are private enterprise in UK)
    • –In use carbon, ≈ OPEX
  • PEF Product Environmental Footprinting (Future development)
  • PAS 2080:2016 Whole Life carbon Assessment
  • RICS Carbon Calculation methodology Ed. 1 Nov. 2017
  • ICE Inventory of Carbon & Energy V3 Nov. 2019
  • CEEQUAL 6 Civil Engineering Environmental Assessment Method

EN 15804 LCA > EPD Dataset

  • Table: See Slide Show

GBC V2 LCA Calculator

  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

PAS 2080

  • Cover: See Slideshow
  • BSI
    • –Publicly Available Specification
    • –PAS 2080:2016 Whole Life carbon Assessment
  • The Green Construction Board
    • –Guidance Document for PAS 2080
    • –Managing Whole Life Carbon in Infrastructure
    • –Roles and Responsibilities
    • –Process
    • –Introduction to LCA
    • –Case Studies
    • –Carbon Measurement Tools
    • –Rules for Calculations
    • –Sample datasets from many sources

RICS Whole Life Carbon

  • RICS
  • Whole Life Carbon Assessment for the built Environment
  • Calculation methodology
  • Edition 1
  • Nov. 2017
  • Elemental Assemblies
    • –Relates to elemental cost plan
      • Relates to Spon
      • Not confident this helps
    • –Bad Cost planning?
      • Bankrupt industry?
    • –Crippled Supply chain?
      • Late payments?
      • Mental Stress prevails?
  • GBC does components > elements > whole building calculations

ICE database

GBC V2 EE EC SC Calculator

  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

Highways England Carbon Tool

  • Guidance
  • July 2020
  • Version v 2.3
  • Excel On-line tool
  • E.g. Schedules for data collection

GBC V2 Transport datasets

  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

Life Cycle Analysis of Transport

  • Impact of road and rail transport in LCA
    • Flights are very carbon and energy inefficient
    • Ships are very efficient
    • Rail is very efficient
    • Road is worse
    • Big trucks are better than small vans
  • Role of consolidation centres
    • Long haul in big trucks or trains
    • Pallet services removes many small vehicles off road
      • Needs less drivers
    • Switch goods to smaller trucks in consolidation centres
      • Short haul in small trucks for easy access
    • Round robin journeys: site <> consolidation centres

GBC V2 Civils & Infra Datasets

  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

ISE Carbon tool: Structures

Environmental Assessment Methods: Drive change?

  • BREEAM driven via GGtS & Green Book Live
    • –Green Guide to Specification
      • Industry average Generic Materials (no incentive to improve)
      • 1200 Readymade Assemblies (probably not what you are doing)
      • Bespoke assessments (BRE take their time)
        • –400 more assemblies added?
    • –GreenBook Live Products
      • Mostly plastic or bitumen backed carpets
      • BRE EP = EPD once recalculated to EN 15804
  • BREEAM Infrastructure (Pilot)
    • –Like all BREEAM Tools
      • it records what you did,
      • not change the way you did it
      • “If not BREEAM could have been greener”
    • –HS2 destroys easy targets (whilst COVID lockdown hides evidence)
      • Many SSSI Sites of Special Scientific Interest
      • Many Ancient forests
      • 400 year old tree felled for a maintenance slip road
  • It completely fails on behaviour change

Infrastructure Environmental Assessment Method: Drive change?

  • CEEQUAL V5
  • 15 years, 1300 trained assessors,
  • now BRE’s
  • + BREEAM Infrastructure Pilot
  • = CEEQUAL 6
    • –June 2019,
    • –+ Whole Life Carbon
  • https://www.ceequalonline.com/login/
  • Must be trained to use it
  • Untrained cannot even see it
  • Video Thank you BRE, link will not work
  • Fees: £3000 (£3m)-£38,000 (£1000m)

World & UK GBC

  • WorldGBC Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment by 2030 Sept. 2018
  • UKGBC Net Zero Carbon Buildings:
    • –A Framework Definition: April 2019
  • WGBC Bringing Embodied Carbon Upfront
    • –Sept. 2019 ‘Upfront Carbon’
    • –disconnecting from OPEX therefore TOTEX
    • –Whole live VE becomes more complicated
  • Budget March 2021:
    • –Government: Build Back Better
    • –UKGBC: Build Back Business as Usual
  • Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap for the Built Environment:
    • –March 2021

‘Upfront’ carbon A1-A5

  • Table: See SlideShow

MEP Services Carbon Accounting

  • BSRIA carbon accounting for services:
  • Rules of engagement
  • Topic Guide TG3/2012
  • Metals and Plastics
  • Sections:
    • –duct simplicity
    • –cable complexity
  • Components & Accessories
  • Circuit boards:
    • –generic values/mm2

GBC V2 MEP Services

  • Items BOMQC EEECSC LCA
  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

GBC V2 Sections Calculations

  • MEP Services & Structures
  • Profiles > Cross Section area > Lengths > Volumes
  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

What purpose carbon counting?

  • Chart: See Slideshow
  • Growing designer’s awareness of growing impacts
  • Carbon reduction potential opportunities and consequences
  • Materials decision making
    • –More performance
    • –Conflicting performances
    • –= less long term impacts
    • –= more initial impacts
  • As designed v as built
    • –Performance Gap
  • Substitution Value Engineering
    • –Cost cutting in disguise
  • Belgium’s 2012 ambition
    • –‘fine not tax’ development
    • –Based on designed impacts
    • –Not forgetting substitutions

Project Carbon Accounting

  • CAD & BIM Apps:
    • ready to interrogate the models and datasets?
  • Or getting ahead of the game
    • –and doing it for yourself in Excel

Green Building Calculator V2

  • Excel for now V1 July 2020; V2 April-May 2021
  • Building Elemental Assemblies V1 & V2
  • Bill of Materials, Quantities, Costs V2
  • Materials EE EC SC datasets & Calculator V2
  • Materials and Products LCA Datasets & Calculator V2
  • Infrastructure materials Datasets V2
  • Transport emissions Datasets V2 Calculator Later
  • Services & Structures Sections Calculator V2
  • Building Landscape Road Readymade Assemblies V3 & V4
  • Services Design Calculator: Later
  • Rail Elemental Assemblies Later needs specialist advice
  • Infrastructure Module Calculators V10
    • –(sooner if any demand shown, or funded to develop early)
  • BIM App later V20 (but early discussions have started)

GBC V2 EE EC SC Calculator

  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

GBC V1 EIU & CIU

  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

GBC V2 BofM Q C

  • Spreadsheet worksheet: See SlideShow

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