CESW chief executive appointed to help lead UK construction’s response to the climate emergency
Andrew Carpenter joins Programme Board of national CO2nstruct Zero initiative
One of the South West’s leading advocates for modernising the construction sector is to help lead a major national initiative aimed at transforming the industry in response to the global climate emergency.
Andrew Carpenter, CEO of Constructing Excellence South West (CESW), has been appointed to the Programme Board of CO2nstruct Zero, the UK construction industry’s zero carbon change programme.
Launched in March 2021 by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), CO2nstruct Zero is the industry’s key response to achieving the UK Government’s objective of net zero for the whole economy by 2050.
The aim is to promote the high-level priorities that the industry must work on in order to drive carbon out of all parts of the construction sector, from manufacturing and design to construction and operation of assets.
In addition to Andrew Carpenter’s role on the board, Constructing Excellence South West is supporting the programme as CO2nstruct Zero Partner.
Andrew Carpenter, CEO of Constructing Excellence South West, said: “I am delighted to be asked to join the CO2nstruct Zero Programme Board and to have the opportunity to help shape construction’s response to what is, without doubt, the single biggest issue facing our industry and indeed our society and our planet.
“All of us have a role to play and construction needs to achieve nothing less than a revolution in how we embrace innovative methods and materials, design out carbon, build responsibly and optimise the efficiency of both new and existing homes and buildings and how we use them.
“The industry has learned vital lessons from COVID and for the first time in many years has come together with one voice. We now need to harness these recent achievements and direct our attention to the even greater challenge of climate change.”
CESW leads the change agenda in construction regionally as part of Construction Excellence’s national mission to improve the industry’s performance and produce a better built environment.
More about Constructing Excellence South West at: https://constructingexcellencesw.org.uk
