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UK engineers urged to ‘Think ethics before action’
A new report, Engineering Ethics: maintaining society’s trust in the engineering profession, has been published ‘to ensure that ethical culture and practice become embedded in the engineering profession in the same way as health and safety considerations’. Produced by the joint Engineering Ethics Reference Group, established in 2019 by the Royal Academy of
Engineering and the Engineering Council, the report includes a ‘roadmap’ of short-, medium-, and long-term actions to embed ethical best practice. At its heart is the need to retain public confidence in the ethical behaviour of engineers. While reported public trust in engineers
remains high, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Engineering Council say ‘society’s ever-growing expectations’, coupled with new
advances in technology, mean engineers ‘must continually evaluate how ethical behaviours need to improve and evolve’. They said: “Inevitably, there are tensions between profitability, sustainability, and safety, that engineers need to balance. The engineering profession has worked for many years on embedding ethical culture and practice into the profession, including
operating sustainably, inclusively, and with respect for diverse views. Together, such behaviours make a profession aspirational and trustworthy, but require a culture of continuous improvement.” ‘Engineering Ethics’ marks the next
step in this work, summarising progress to date, and recommending actions that reinforce benefit to society, while seeking to embed an ethical culture of continuous improvement.
Parkhead’s £72 m ‘Net Zero carbon’ health and social care hub
BAM has received the green light to begin construction work on a new £72 m Net Zero carbon health and social care facility in Parkhead, Glasgow, due for completion in 2024. Serving communities in the east of end of Glasgow, the new North East Hub Health and Care Centre will be delivered by BAM Construct UK for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, and Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership. Set to be one of the UK’s largest primary care developments, it will bring together, on one 11,200 m2
site, a number of
public-facing community health and social services currently located at nine different sites in Glasgow. The Parkhead Hub, on the site of
the former Parkhead Hospital, will include three GP practices, a pharmacy, specialist services for children and adult community care groups, and support for seniors, mental health, addictions, criminal justice, and the homeless community. A local library will also be relocated to the hub, and there are plans for a new café. BAM was originally appointed to the project in 2019, when the estimated
value of the job was £35 m. Since then, the Parkhead Hub has been re-designed into Scotland’s first Net Zero carbon health and care facility, and will form part of NHS plans to reach a Net Zero target by 2040. Jim Ward, BAM Construction’s
regional director for Scotland, said: “Once complete, the project will provide significant benefits to the local community by improving access to services, and better integrate health and social work teams and services, and the voluntary and charity sectors.” The Scottish Government will fund
£65 m of the £72 m project. The architects on the scheme are Hoskins Architects.
HEALTH SECTOR NEWS
Embodied Carbon Calculator launch welcomed
Actuate UK, the alliance of eight UK engineering services bodies, has welcomed CIBSE’s new Embodied Carbon Calculator tool, which, ‘for the first time’, enables engineers to easily estimate the embodied carbon associated with mechanical, electrical, and public health systems in buildings. The digital tool is designed to support consultants, researchers, and manufacturers to implement CIBSE TM65 Embodied carbon in building services: a calculation methodology, by performing the calculations set out in the document, which enables the calculation of embodied carbon of building services equipment when no Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is available.
Actuate UK said: “Embodied carbon is associated with the extraction of materials, manufacture, repair, disassembly, and disposal. Environmental product declarations are a standardised way of showing the embodied carbon and other environmental impacts of a product. However, with the complexity of building services products and their supply chains, very few building services equipment manufacturers offer EPDs.”
Paul Reeve from Actuate UK’s Net Zero Group said: “Communicating the embodied carbon of electrical and electronic equipment and other building services products is a new challenge and opportunity for our sector. Buyers are increasingly requiring MEP contractors to show how they are including embodied carbon in their carbon impact measurements. The new toolkit provides a technically sound, but also highly pragmatic, approach to help both manufacturers and contractors achieve this”.
To use the tool, a manufacturer completes the Manufacturer Form describing the materials used in the product. A user can complete either a basic embodied carbon calculation, when limited information is available, or ‘a more robust’ mid- level calculation. Once they have added contact details and completed consent to publication details, the result may be used as a self-assessed value for the product’s embodied carbon.
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