Arup has joined with WWF-Australia, the NSW Government and 40 other leading companies to accelerate decarbonisation of the building and construction industry.
Together they have formed a new coalition – the Materials & Embodied Carbon Leaders Alliance (MECLA) – to reduce embodied carbon across the building supply chain and encourage the transition to alternative, reused and recycled materials.
Arup Materials Engineer, Lauren Howe is co-Chair of one of the five key working groups within MECLA developing tangible and actionable measures for industry. Her group is defining a best practice framework for evaluating embodied carbon which she said will increase transparency and accountability in decision-making.