Enabling Whole Life Carbon Design

Enabling Whole Life Carbon Design

Amount awarded: £186,900

Led by: Anglian Water

Partners: @one Alliance (Anglian Water, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, MMB, Sweco, Skanska and MWH Treatment|), Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water), Skanska UK PLC, and Sweco UK Limited.

See project updates on the Anglian Water website

Enabling Whole Life Carbon Design will deliver the tools and processes required to support the tools and processes required to support the cultural and behavioural changes necessary to deliver low whole life carbon and cost solutions and ultimately ‘zero carbon emissions’ as a water industry, by empowering the sector to move from purely capital and operational carbon accounting (the measurement of capital and operational carbon footprints) to true whole-life carbon cost management.

The entire concept is completely new for the water industry, and will support the sector to:

1. Measure whole life carbon and cost
2. Use digital values-based visualisations that enable the rapid identification of carbon and cost hotspots during the design phase
3. Most importantly, embed carbon as an equal decision-making metric to cost

The methodology and database templates will be shared with the rest of the UK water industry and its wider value chain to enable clear decisions based on data insights and visualisations.

—

Resources:

For  more information on Enabling Whole Life Carbon Design, take a look at the following resources:

• Read the case study from December 2022
• The foreground IPR developed by this project is as follows, and is available on the Anglian Water website here:

• • Enabling Whole Life Carbon Design Playbook
  • Carbon data template
  • Process and governance docs
  • Case studies
• The project has shared its learnings via a Spring Showcase event. Find the learnings and materials in Spring’s Knowledge Transfer library.