“The Environment Agency’s Carbon Planning Tool is very much suited to the work that we do, in terms of flood and coastal risk management,” says Katherine Ibbotson, Carbon Planning Manager at the Environment Agency.  

The ‘ERIC’ Carbon Planning Tool provides a mechanism for assessing carbon over the whole life of built assets. It enables solution options through development of whole life carbon models and it captures data that will allow the EA to set supplier carbon targets and support the promotion of reduced carbon solutions on the EA’s construction works.

“We are always challenged with trying to reduce our environmental footprint, and the Carbon Planning Tool is very important to us to be able to do that on a whole life basis. We’re trying to promote that one should not just look at your project, but look at the whole life in terms of the operational side of the asset as well. That’s why using tools, such as whole life carbon tools, are important,” says Katherine Ibbotson.

For more information, contact: carbonplanningtool@environment-agency.gov.uk

See Katherine Ibbotson talking about the Environment Agency’s ‘ERIC’ Carbon Planning Tool in the 15th episode of Construction Climate Talks here: https://goo.gl/UL3aug.

The episode is also released on CCC YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The Construction Climate Talks series by the Construction Climate Challenge initiative highlights some of the most important issues in climate sustainability today. See all the previous episodes here: https://goo.gl/YMEDPE.