Hot air or sensible targets: how UK construction firms are setting the net-zero standard
In the past two years, most of the UK’s largest construction firms have unveiled targets for cutting carbon emissions. However, with a distinct lack of standards, they can be tough to compare. Zak Garner-Purkis investigates In 2014, Interserve set itself a “big, hairy, audacious goal” – or BHAG, as ex-finance director Tim Haywood liked to call it. The BHAG would see the contractor halve its carbon emissions by 2020 and, to achieve it, Haywood would do something unprecedented: as well as being Interserve finance director, he would also act as its head of sustainability. The problem fo...
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