Railway has set contractors carbon reduction targets
HS2 has becomes the first UK transport sector client to achieve a major global carbon management standard.
The railway has been awarded the PAS 2080 global accreditation, recognising its plans to reduce carbon throughout the project.
PAS 2080 is a global specification for managing whole-life carbon in infrastructure.
Developed by the Construction Leadership Council’s green construction board with the British Standards Institute, it provides a consistent framework for evaluating and managing carbon across the whole infrastructure value chain.
HS2 has set a 50% carbon reduction target on assets such as tunnels, viaducts and cuttings, along with stations and railway system, to encourage the supply chain to innovate to reduce carbon.
Designers have achieved a 27% reduction in the structural steel required to build the roof of Old Oak Common station. This is the equivalent to a 2,700 tonne reduction in carbon and a cost saving of £7m.
HS2 is also cutting emissions by transporting materials by rail, with 15,000 freight trains set to move 10 million tonnes of aggregate for HS2 over the next decade.
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