Over the last few years, there have been lots of talk about the embodied carbon of assets used in wastewater and drainage infrastructures. However, for products such as concrete pipes, a cradle-to-site carbon footprint should not be treated as a fixed value, as that footprint gets lower over time and can drop by as much… Read more »
The UK’s concrete and cement industry has announced an ambitious carbon programme with a target to become ‘Carbon Negative’ by 2050. In this blog, we explore how the new roadmap can affect the industry. We also answer the main questions on the precast concrete drainage sector and ‘Net Zero Carbon’. In June, the cement and… Read more »
In April this year, Water UK published its latest sewers adoption Design & Construction Guide (DCG), introducing for the first-time new requirements for the adoption of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), including attenuation tanks. In this blog, we briefly explore the main implications in terms of open areas and surface-level car park fires and how different… Read more »
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