Altrad Services achieves ISO 14064-1

Lee Gardner, Head of Environment and Sustainability at Altrad, discusses Altrad’s success and why they selected NQA to support their objectives.

“Our Babcock entity had been quantifying and reporting greenhouse gas emissions since 2012, with verification to ISO 14064. Post the acquisition of Babcock by Altrad, it was agreed that the ISO 14064 process would be applied across the entire UK region.

We chose NQA to support our journey after a competitive tender process, due to their experience, their professional approach, and the fact that they clearly understood our complex business. 

NQA supported Altrad with measuring its carbon emissions. Our ISO 50001 certified system helped us  with identifying areas of energy use across all our activities; we then added other areas such as Scope 3 emissions as outlined in the greenhouse gas protocol and refrigerant release. Our carbon emissions were then calculated using a recognised conversion factor, similar to those produced by the UK Government.

We also benefited from the ISO 14064 process by having a breakdown of emissions across all areas of the business. Our Net Zero Working Group is made up of leaders from areas of greatest emissions, and the breakdown of emissions by area allowed us to target specific actions, to enable our net zero commitments to be realised."

Stephen Burt, Sustainability and Carbon Services Director said: 

"Altrad  were found to have undertaken a comprehensive and thorough quantification of their GHG emission sources. This followed a revision to their baseline year as a result of company acquisition and integration, which added to the complexity for the personnel involved. However, the company very impressively rose to the challenge and established a robust and credible GHG baseline to measure their important ongoing decarbonisation plans against. 

Overall and throughout the Verification Audit, NQA were impressed with the quality of the GHG data presented by Altrad, the ability to back up that data with excellent levels of evidence, the understanding of the process, and the commitment of leadership to longer term net zero targets. Levels of conformance to ISO 14064-1 were found to be excellent, and NQA were very pleased to be able to work with Altrad  to provide a successful Verification."