CARBON & CIRCULARITY

Cabling can account for almost half of the IS materials' impact, even though it’s a relatively small slice of the project’s carbon footprint. IS Enviropoints measures a project’s materials impact reduction, with points feeding directly into the overall rating. If you supply cabling into IS-rated infrastructure, this is a big deal: your EPD, or the lack of one, can move a project’s score more than almost any other product decision.

Through collaboration with industry partners, universities and major infrastructure clients, we've developed an interactive tool built with a series of assumptions allowing users to calculate a Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) with readily available infrastructure design and delivery inputs.

Material circularity has become a key focus for infrastructure, driven by growing policy, procurement and sustainability expectations. The direction is clear: circularity is becoming an expectation across major projects. Yet despite this momentum, many organisations still struggle to measure and demonstrate circularity in a consistent, defensible way.