CONSTRUCTION
Decarbonising construction in Liverpool and beyond Richard Potts, Liverpool area director, Morgan Sindall Construction When it comes to taking the action needed to address the climate emergency, it’s difficult to underestimate the importance of leadership. As a business with a large footprint in Liverpool – from our ongoing projects at Liverpool City Council’s Knowledge Quarter to the recently completed new buildings at Copperas Hill for Liverpool John Moores University and our work building The Depot sound stages for Liverpool City Council – we take our responsibility to the city – and its net zero ambitions – very seriously. That’s why we were proud to recently launch Decarbonising Communities, Morgan Sindall Construction’s transformational approach to collaborative carbon reduction, which will enable us to support our local supply chain
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in achieving their environmental ambitions and help meet our own target of Net Zero Carbon by 2030. Decarbonising Communities will harness the combined expertise of our customers, employees and supply chain partners to change the way buildings are designed and constructed, in order to reduce the amount of carbon associated with each built asset. Crucially, this will include a focus on reducing carbon emissions within supply chains and applying science-based benchmarks to reduce whole life carbon on projects, in order to meet the 1.5 degree global warming target, alongside UK government targets. Underpinning this approach is CarboniCa, an innovative carbon calculation tool that will allow project teams to work with customers to estimate, manage and reduce whole life carbon emissions through the design, construction and entire lifecycle of an asset.
In addition, every Morgan Sindall Construction team member throughout Liverpool and beyond will make a Personal Carbon Pledge, which will allow them to make a small yet significant change to their way of working in order to help our business decarbonise. As a proud member of the Liverpool business community, we’re pleased to be taking decisive action to help our city play its part in rescuing the natural world for the benefit of future generations. Of course, that goal is not straightforward – but we see it as our responsibility to show the leadership required to take our customers and supply chain with us on a journey that will result in the transformation of how carbon reduction is delivered within the construction industry. For more information about this news release please contact Susan Patterson at Morgan Sindall Construction Susan.Patterson@morgansindall.com
