Mott Macdonald are to hold two free master classes in London next month exploring how Anglian Water has used carbon reduction to drive capital and operational efficiencies over the last five years, and what savings the company is targeting next.
The two ‘low carbon master classes, which will take place at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, will set out the challenges overcome and opportunities realised at low carbon pioneer Anglian Water.
The government’s Infrastructure Carbon Review (ICR), published in November 2013, estimated that the UK infrastructure industry could realise efficiency savings worth £1.5bn by cutting its carbon emissions. Anglian Water carbon manager David Riley will speak at both classes and offer an insight into the company’s own low carbon journey.
At Master class 1: leadership and skills, which takes place on 5th August, Green Construction Board Infrastructure Working Group member and Anglian Water carbon manager David Riley, together with Mott MacDonald group practice manager for water and environment and Infrastructure Carbon Review lead author Mark Enzer, will explain:
- How the Infrastructure Carbon Review's findings can be translated into practical action
- How low carbon strategies can produce positive outcomes for investors
- How project design can be viewed through a different lens to uncover new carbon- and cost-saving opportunities
- How skills, tools, processes and governance can be aligned with low carbon goals
- Lessons from Anglian Water's industry-leading success in embedding low carbon design and constrruction into its projects
David and Mark will explain how Anglian Water responded by promoting a new culture of carbon awareness, communicating the link between carbon reduction and commercial performance to the company’s directors, investors and staff. The class will detail how Anglian Water set out its low carbon vision, and achieved it by growing a low carbon skills set and incentivising innovation. Project examples will show how carbon and cost savings were advanced in ever greater leaps as confidence grew.
Master class 2 on measurement, management and reduction will take place on 12th August 2014. David Riley and Circular Ecology founder Craig Jones, together with Mott MacDonald sustainability leader Maria Manidaki, will explain:
- How to obtain useful, digestible carbon data on materials, transport and site activity
- What a carbon model looks like and how it can be used
- How to ensure consistebncy in carbon modelling and management
- How to simplify carbon calculations while still gaining valuable insight
- How to use carbon data to realise cost efficiencies
Both events follow the same format of a 45-minute evening master class starting at 6pm followed by extended audience Q&A, concluding with drinks, canapés and networking. The master classes are free to attend but pre-booking is essential. To register for one or both, click here.
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