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Four local organisations each received cheques for £250 from the Lodge Virtue and Honor at its annual church service

The Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) is calling for the construction industry to factor in embodied carbon budgets for all future construction projects, in an attempt to achieve national carbon emissions targets set by the government.

If you think the moves to measure and monitor embodied carbon were a bit slow to take off then, you’d be out on your own. It’s taken just 18 months. Now,

Ali Najim has worked on projects across sectors, from affordable housing, aged care and childcare through to tourist destinations and aeroplane hangars.

The Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) has handed down a number of recommendations to assist construction companies mitigate risks associated with cost and supply.

“AIQS recommends that clients engage with the contracting community to ensure base assumptions are correct, and if not, adjust the design or parameters early to make sure the project can work. This could mean changing a product, accelerating the project or delaying it.”

Governments should break up big projects and work with industry to attract women amid global competition for skilled infrastructure workers, an inquiry is told.