PAS 2080:2023 Carbon management in buildings and infrastructure – Introduction

PAS 2080 outlines a carbon management process covering the built environment.  The goal is to reduce whole life carbon of projects, specifically but not exclusively buildings and infrastructure, while simultaneously increasing value. It emphasizes leadership and collaboration over the whole value chain and aims to reduce carbon and cost through intelligent design and management.

It is an important reference document for policy makers, designers, developers, and other stakeholders engaged in the construction sector, as a go-to carbon management specification in the built environment.

This updated version of PAS 2080 builds on the experience of its real-life application from its initial publication in 2016.  It has expanded to reflect on other important aspects of construction activities to achieve long-term sustainable development goals. PAS 2080 focuses on a number of key themes, including:

• Widening the scope of PAS 2080 beyond infrastructure, to include the entire built environment.
• Integrating systems thinking into the design process and allowing for the value chain member to influence the design of the asset to fit better into the system for which it exists.
• Taking a whole-life carbon view: encouraging retrofit of existing buildings and infrastructure in the first instance and balance capital carbon investment with operational use over time.
• Encouraging and employing nature-based solutions wherever possible to provide a service. Their value to both carbon reduction and climate change resilience tend to be more valuable.
• Highlighting the importance of leadership and collaboration to achieve these goals.

This course aims to introduce and highlight the key roles and responsibilities of those involved in buildings and infrastructure development. It emphasises a whole life carbon approach, aligned with limiting average global temperature increase to 1.5'C above pre-industrial levels set by the UN Paris Climate Agreement 2015, circular economy principles,and the urgent need to decarbonize systems, networks and assets, while balancing capital carbon investment with operational and user benefit.

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Responding to the global climate emergency requires us to alter how we interact with our environment, and quickly. PAS 2080 outlines a carbon management process for the built environment, that is applicable across both buildings and infrastructure.

By following the PAS 2080 approach, value chain members across the built environment can work collaboratively towards the common goal of a net zero carbon transition. The specific goals being:

• align buildings and infrastructure projects and/or programmes of work, at the asset, network or system level, to the net zero transition by or before 2050, and therefore contribute to limiting global warming to 1.5 °C, as per Paris Climate Agreement 2015;
• reduce carbon and increase value across the whole life of buildings and infrastructure; and
• remove barriers to collaborative ways of working that promote innovation, encourage positive change for society and support economic development.

This 4hr on-demand training course will provide an introduction to PAS 2080, and the various roles / responsibilities and requirements of the various stakeholder groups involved in carbon management in the built environment.