Across the built environment, there is now clear consensus that the journey to net zero requires an industry wide approach.
BSI is committed to supporting the industry play its part in combatting climate change. We believe this will be achieved by collaboration, sharing expertise and experience from initial design of a built asset through to construction, ongoing maintenance and decommissioning. This approach recognises the importance of people, data and technology as the foundation for a more sustainable built environment.
This project brings together insight from global industry leaders representing organisations across the built environment life cycle. Underpinned by our survey, with industry responses across eight countries, we focus on some of the key issues and opportunities for collaboration. We’re grateful to specialists from across the industry for providing such valuable insights.
Key contributors
- Aurecon – Jacob Hoare, Digital Lead, Asia; Adam Peacock, Building Structures Practice Leader
- Balfour Beatty – Joanna Gilroy, Sustainability Director, UK
- Boustead Projects – Muhammed Khalil, Deputy Director, Group Technology
- CBRE – Marcella Thompson, Senior Vice President, Corporate Environmental Sustainability
- Chengdu Intelligent Computing Center – Dr. Keyu Chen, CEO
- Gensler – Eduardo Ramos, Co-Managing Director, Mexico Office
- Kinenergy – Hendrick Munoz, CEO
- Mott MacDonald – Eszter Gulacsy, Technical Director
- National Taiwan University – Shang-Hsien Hsieh, Professor of Civil Engineering
- Obayashi Group – Iida Kunihiro, Head of iPD Center
- WSP – David Symons, Future Ready Innovation Leader
- Roads and Transport Authority, Dubai – Dr Salah
Al Dilimi, Rail Infrastructure Maintenance Manager
Featured articles
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''Achieving net zero requires companies to embrace it as an ongoing journey, integrating sustainable practices across all operations and collaborating with stakeholders to drive industry-wide change'' |
''Celebrating progress in the built environment’s net zero journey is crucial, but accelerating efforts, embracing innovation, and fostering collaboration are key to achieving net zero goals by 2050.'' |
''The “M” in BIM is shifting from Modeling to Management. Moreover, from a global perspective, efforts towards the new common goal of net zero in the industry.'' |
“The reality of achieving net zero is at least as complicated as some of the major projects that we build. So, we have to apply that same collaborative thinking.” |
“We believe that the future of real estate has to be sustainable, resilient and adaptive to climate change” |
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- Eszter Gulacsy, Mott MacDonald |
- David Symons, WSP |
- Iida Kunihiro, Obayashi Group - Kimura Takeshi, Obayashi Group |
- Joanna Gilroy, Balfour Beatty |
- Marcella Thompson, CBRE |
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“Individual efforts must come together to collaborate and create integrated solutions to make the whole sector head in the right direction on the net zero journey. It feels like we have a long way to go in some areas right now.” |
''It's in our blueprint to achieve net zero in 2025. We’ve looked at the carbon footprint of the business and worked out what we need to do. There is a huge opportunity to reduce carbon and operational energy through the sustainability and design campaign we’ve rolled out to the business.” |
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- Hendrick Munoz, Kinenergy |
- Jacob Hoare & Adam Peacock, Aurecon |
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