Infrastructure development carries a significant environmental footprint, driven largely by materials that are resource-intensive, carbon-intensive and usually locked in early on a project. Sustainable procurement builds environmental, social and governance considerations into every procurement decision, what to procure and who to procure it from, and its benefits go beyond emissions reduction, improving project efficiency and reducing ownership and operation costs over time.

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.