Westminster City Council King Street Low Carbon Trial - Client Report

In completing the trial, it has identified several recommendations to further reduce carbon across the Westminster network including:

• Prohibiting diesel from work sites

• Increasing the electrical power points available across the City

• Seeking alternative power sources for equipment

• Investigating the use of central compounds to reduce travel

• Running concurrent sites using electric powered operations to increase efficiency

• Working closely with suppliers to increase the availability of plant

• Increasing the ability to monitor energy usage and diesel usage across projects

• Reviewing current specifications to identify carbon savings in embodied carbon

• Trialling of lower carbon materials on the network

• Designing a scheme from early stages to investigate more specification carbon savings

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