‘We’re trained as cost consultants to reduce cost – why not do the same with carbon?’

By Daniel Gayne2022-09-27T06:00:00

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Turner & Townsend’s new embodied carbon calculator aims to put carbon mitigation into the hands of the cost manager

Much ink has been spilt in recent years over the cost of carbon emissions and a great deal of time and effort, particularly in the built environment, has been devoted to putting those costs in numbers.

But if we are going to think about the carbon issue in such pecuniary terms, then why not make it the responsibility of those in the sector with the most experience of measuring, predicting and keeping a handle on costs.

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