Where does cost fit in?
Sean lockie, a sustainability expert from Atkins
subsidiary Faithful+gould, gave a case study,
which underlined how cost considerations are
affecting capital projects today. He described
work undertaken to deliver a low carbon schools
programme for the department for Children,
Schools and Families (dCSF). A pre-design carbon
calculator has been developed to enable schools
to be procured with a 60 per cent reduction of
operational carbon emissions, based on 2002
levels. the dCSF is providing additional funding of
approximately £500,000 per secondary school to
fund these carbon reduction measures. If the target
had been carbon zero schools, the cost would have
been an additional £2.8 million per school.
Clarke: What none of us know is how quickly we’ll
go from providing a notional cost for carbon in
projects, to cost and carbon being comparable
in some projects, to being told, “If you don’t have
a carbon credit the project won’t be possible”. The 17
rate of change of that debate is astounding.
The transport sector
Southern: 15 years after Kyoto, transport is the one sector in the uK that
has seen an increase in emissions. We need to place carbon at the heart of
what we do in planning and policy development. that will change the design
question for our clients by influencing choice and behaviour, and in turn that
will change capital programmes. It won’t just be a case of changing the design
of capital programmes – it will change the very capital programmes that we
will be implementing.
AnD A SObeRIng THOugHT:
ClARKe: OUR SeCtOR IS FaCIng tHe MOSt COMplex CHallenge It
HaS eveR dealt WItH. CHangIng tHe Way We deSIgn a bUIlt
envIROnMent IS a pHenOMenal CHallenge, bOtH teCHnICally,
ORganISatIOnally and CUltURally, bUt It IS vItally IMpORtant.
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