Unite with your profession to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – to limit additional warming and minimise the increasingly widespread effects of climate change.
Businesses
Measure and manage your carbon footprint
Fulfil your business’ environmental and social responsibilities, identify inefficiencies and meet increasing legislative and consumer demands to mitigate your carbon footprint.
Start your carbon journey today
Projects
Reducing embodied carbon in projects will help us build a healthier and more sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand. Construction carbon calculators are becoming increasingly common. Note: some of these are behind paywalls.
BRANZ’s Carbon Calculator
BRANZ CO₂NSTRUCT provides embodied carbon and energy values for building materials, including concrete, glass, timber and metals, as well as products such as bathroom/kitchen fittings and lifts.
Find out more about BRANZ’s carbon calculator
Mott MacDonald’s Moata Carbon Portal
Mott MacDonald have developed the Moata Carbon Portal for engineers and designers. This tool helps identify carbon hotspots in projects and facilitate low carbon design.
Find out more about the Moata Carbon Portal
Building Transparency’s Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator
An American non-profit, Building Transparency, has developed a free Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3).
Find out more about the EC3 carbon calculator
Institution of Structural Engineers – How to calculate embodied carbon
The Institution of Structural Engineers has developed carbon calculation principles for the structural engineering community, along with a Structural Carbon Tool.
Find out more about the principles and tool
European Federation of Foundation Contractors’ Carbon Calculator
The European Federation of Foundation Contractors, together with the Deep Foundation Institute have developed a tool to help calculate the carbon emissions of foundations and geotechnical works.
Find out more about the calculator
EG articles
“Re-wilding” the waterways
Northland Regional Council’s Otiria-Moerewa spillway and bridge flood mitigation project highlights how engineering can be a catalyst for positive change for people and places.
Fuel for thought
Transport needs energy, and the transition to low-carbon and low-emission energy carriers and fuels is on. But with a range of options plus rapidly advancing technology, what do fleet owners need to consider to stay flexible and agile and avoid getting left with stranded assets?
Concrete goals
Demand for the world’s most widely used construction material will only increase as tomorrow’s built environment responds to climate change mitigation and adaptation requirements. Steps have already been taken to ensure that the concrete used will be low-carbon, and ultimately net zero carbon by 2050.
It’s a decade for engineers
How Kiwi engineers can play a vital role in the drive to net zero carbon.
Learning opportunity
Smart Cities
How is New Zealand using technology and data to design sustainable smart cities? Take the University of Canterbury and EdX’s course on Smart Cities. The course takes about 6 weeks, with 3-4 hours a week of course time. It’s online and free.
