Carbon Critical Design
Atkins recognises that we need to act now to mitigate the effects of climate change. We are therefore focusing our effort on the role planners, engineers and architects have to perform to respond to the changes, challenges and opportunities of a carbon critical economy.
Carbon is still not a core consideration when capital projects are evaluated, designed and procured. We believe that carbon has to be the driver if our sector is not only to meet the targets being imposed across the world but to help set the new standards required. We believe a fundamental change is needed to the way our sector approaches design and have mobilised our workforce to address this.
We have set ourselves a 100 week target to actively engage a significant proportion of our employees in Carbon Critical Design.
In May 2008 we assembled 70 sustainability experts and business heads from our own staff, industry, government and academia to debate the challenge of delivering workable solutions for a carbon critical economy. Click here to read the highlights of the debate.
It is also important that we minimise our own negative environmental impact to climate change and therefore need to be carbon critical for our own operations in our offices and business travel. This is discussed further in the Our Performance section of this website.