Paul provides keynote lectures on a range of environmental and sustainability issues affecting business and government. For example, at the TEPFFA (plastic piping federation for EU companies) annual conference, attended by CEOs, senior executives of the leading companies and DGs from the European Commission. At this forum Paul provided a keynote lecture on the current […]
Speaking: Managing infrastructure assets for climate change and reducing carbon emissions
Video shows Dr Paul Toyne presenting at the CCC Summit in Sweden 2016. Paul describes the challenges that infrastructure companies, like Balfour Beatty who design, construction, as well as own and operate infrastructures. Paul is available to talk on a range of environmental and sustainability issues.
Advising: London Sustainable Development Commissioner
Paul was appointed in 2010 by the then Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and re-appointed in 2017 by Sadiq Khan to the London Sustainability Development Commission (LSDC). He is currently Chair of Quality of Life working group, undertook this role in 2012 overseeing the last Quality of Life report. Paul is a member of the […]
Research: Current status of the EU cement sector
Paul was commissioned to research specific aspects of the built environment and write white papers. One example was an assignment from the Children’s International Fund Foundation (CIFF) to provide an overview of the EU cement market. CIFF fund work on climate change and the cement sector is responsible for significant carbon emissions. The report looked […]
Consulting: Revising CARES sustainability scheme to incorporate social value
Revising CARES sustainability certification scheme to incorporate social value measures The CARES sustainability certification scheme (CARES SCS) provides independent certification of the environmental performance of steel products. Increasingly clients are requiring construction companies and their value chains to demonstrate social value. Paul designed a process to understand what social value measures were relevant to steel […]
Chairing Volvo’s Construction Climate Challenge conference – November 2017
In November 2017 Paul chaired a day long conference on reducing infrastructure through the application of PAS2080 (the world’s first accreditation scheme for infrastructure carbon). The conference at BEIS in Westminster, brought together major infrastructure clients with their supply chains and was sponsored by Volvo UK, in conjunction with the Green Construction Board Infrastructure Working […]
Chairing of London Borough of Bexley’s Place and Making Institute information event
Paul Toyne was commissioned to design the format and content for a half day meeting at the GLA’s City Hall where the proposal for a new Place and Making Institute in Thamesmead, Bexley was unveiled on 1st November 2017. Paul chaired the event which attracted over a 100 guests, many of whom signed a pledge […]
Chair, Thamesmead Future Skills Expo
29 and 30th June 2017, Thamesmead Future Skills Expo at Thames Innovation Centre organised by Peabody. Paul was commissioned by Peabody to be the MC for expo and chair of the seminar sessions that focused on skills training and employment opportunities for residents of the Thamesmead ‘new town’. https://www.thamesmeadnow.org.uk/news-items/thamesmead-future-skills-expo-2017/
Chair, Healthy buildings conference for BRE at ARUP with EVORA
Paul was commissioned by BRE Conferences to chair a day long conference on healthy buildings at ARUP’s London headquarters in April 2017. An audience of over 100 comprised of asset managers, property developers, architects, contractors and product suppliers heard the latest evidence on the phenomenon of health and well-being and how that was catching on […]