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Highways Sector Council launches free-to-use PAS 2080 Support Tool
As a key step in their commitment to drive down carbon emissions in the industry, Highways Sector Council has developed a simple tool kit that supports value chain members on their journey to align with PAS 2080 to manage and reduce carbon across infrastructure delivery.
Whether the user is a client, designer, contractor or wider supplier, the tool simplifies their journey by tailoring content to their role so that they can focus on what PAS 2080 means to them and what they need to do.
It isn’t designed to replace existing guidance or to be an online accreditation tool. It has been designed around the needs of the value chain to provide simple, clear steps to align with PAS 2080. The free-to-use tool is available now includes a ‘readiness survey’ to help users understand where their organisation sits on a scale of alignment to the standard.
Why?
Decisions by funders, designers and contractors affect carbon levels embodied in our highways assets, particularly from the production and use of concrete and steel, and from the diesel emissions of materials transport and construction plant. PAS 2080 provides the much needed framework to bring consistency and focus on reducing embodied carbon regardless of where each organisation operates in the value chain.
The Department for Transport is driving highway authorities to build PAS 2080 into their operations and supply chains. National Highways has already obtained PAS 2080 certification and are driving the requirement for their key suppliers to implement the standard.
Highways Sector Council’s PAS 2080 Alignment Tool is aimed at accelerating implementation to all corners of the industry. Established in 2019, the HSC seeks to transform delivery in the sector, using a unified industry voice and approach to work more collaboratively with central and local government to transform and improve how the sector works across a number of key areas: people and skills, innovation, safety, environment, value, investment and delivery models.