Carbon as the Construction Industry's New Bottom Line

From the Mott MacDonald website:

"Mott MacDonald has developed the Carbon Portal, the first carbon calculator capable of measuring the capital and operational carbon footprints of building information modelling (BIM) designed assets. The tool will help provide a more effective service to clients who recognise the value of carbon reduction.

Carbon is fast catching cost as the construction industry’s new bottom line. The correlation between low carbon construction and reduced cost was identified in the UK Treasury’s Infrastructure Carbon Review in 2013. Quantifying carbon to establish a baseline is one of the crucial first steps of PAS 2080, a new industry standard on carbon management which provides guidance to those who want to cut carbon in infrastructure delivery."