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PAS 2080:2023

PAS 2080:2023, published by the British Standards Institution, is the leading UK specification for carbon management in buildings and infrastructure.

The standard provides a comprehensive framework for managing and reducing carbon across the entire lifecycle of built assets. It promotes a collaborative, value chain approach, bringing together clients, designers, contractors, and suppliers to drive carbon reduction at every stage of a project.

PAS 2080 focuses on whole life carbon, covering both embodied and operational emissions. It encourages early engagement, data driven decision making, and the use of consistent methodologies to measure, report, and reduce carbon impacts.

Widely adopted across infrastructure and increasingly within building projects, PAS 2080 is recognised as a key standard for organisations aiming to align with net zero targets and demonstrate leadership in sustainable construction.


Key Highlights

  • UK standard for carbon management in construction and infrastructure

  • Covers whole life carbon including embodied and operational emissions

  • Promotes collaboration across the full value chain

  • Encourages early stage decision making to reduce carbon impact

  • Supports consistent measurement, reporting, and verification

  • Widely adopted across major infrastructure programmes


PAS 2080:2023 aligns directly with Sterling’s core capability of integrating cost and carbon estimating within a single, data driven platform.

Sterling enables organisations to embed PAS 2080 principles into everyday estimating workflows, moving carbon management from high level reporting into detailed, actionable data. Key areas of alignment include:

  • Resource based carbon estimating, linking labour, plant, and materials to carbon values

  • Integration of cost and carbon, enabling true dual currency decision making

  • Early stage carbon modelling, supporting design optioneering and carbon reduction

  • Lifecycle alignment, covering capital, operational, maintenance, and end of life phases

  • Real time data integration, including EPD data via EC3 and 2050 Materials

  • Benchmarking capabilities, enabling comparison of carbon performance across projects and portfolios

  • Collaboration across teams, supporting PAS 2080’s value chain approach

By combining PAS 2080 with Sterling’s SaaS platform, organisations can move from fragmented carbon reporting to fully integrated, auditable, and optimised carbon management across the entire project lifecycle.


Access PAS 2080:2023 via the British Standards Institution: https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/

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