Saturday, June 7, 2025
BSI released a newly published 2024 net zero report which includes commentary, surveys and original case studies from some of the top organizations in the built environment industry, including CBRE, Balfour Beatty, Gensler, and Aurecon.
These insights, part of BSI’s Journey to Net Zero report, features executives responsible for their company’s carbon goals outlining what they see across the industry, as well as their own organization’s commitments, progress, and an honest look at their setbacks.
Overview of the report:
- Insights from company experts, including: Eszter Gulacsy, Technical Director, UK, for global engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald, who says that the industry is much farther behind on these goals then many are reporting.
- Survey findings, for example:
- Near half (44 per cent) of these businesses say cost is currently a major challenge to progress.
- Half (51 per cent) say technology is well integrated in their net zero approach.
- Main contributors include: Balfour Beatty, CBRE, Gensler, Aurecon, National Taiwan University, Boustead Projects, ISO, Kinenergy, WSP, Roads and Transport Authority Dubai, and Obayashi Group.
The report is authored by Andy Butterfield, BSI’s Managing Director, Global Built Environment who works closely with these global businesses. “The sustainability agenda has been transformed for all businesses in the built environment in the past decade and there is now clear consensus that the journey to net zero is an issue requiring an industrywide approach,” says Butterfield. “Yet there is currently complexity and varying approaches across the built environment life cycle.”
The report identifies a number of themes for built environment organizations to consider when embarking on the journey to net zero: the benefits of leveraging technology; the call for industry collaboration; the need for a clear strategy; how to bring teams on the journey; the role of the supply chain, among others.
To read the complete report, click here.
Featured image credit: BSI
