Lower Thames Crossing and the Five Client Carbon Commitments
The Lower Thames Crossing is proud to be one of the first organisations to have signed up to the Construction Leadership Council’s Five Client Carbon Commitments – simple, practical steps that organisations can take to show how they are reducing their carbon emissions and by when.
The Lower Thames Crossing has been designed to be the UK’s greenest road, with carbon reduction running through the heart of the project. Always at the forefront of green construction initiatives, the project’s innovative procurement process saw a carbon reduction of around 50% from its baseline, and its Development Consent Order contains a legally binding carbon limit, a first for any UK infrastructure project.
The image below shows how the scheme has already met several of the commitments, including contracting for low carbon and achieving PAS 2080. By 2027, all construction sites will be zero emissions with no fossil or biofuels used on site.
The Five Client Carbon Commitments are:
1. Procure for low carbon construction and provide incentives in our contracts
2. Set phase out dates for fossil fuel use
3. Eliminate the most carbon intensive concrete products
4. Eliminate the most carbon intensive steel products
5. Adopt PAS 2080, Carbon Management in Infrastructure, as a common standard
Five Client Carbon Commitments
Setting a path to Net Zero construction, April 2024
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