Lara Young

Lara Young, Group Climate Change Director for Costain Group, named Energy and Carbon Manager of the Year at the 2021 edie sustainability leaders award and Highways UK 2020 Associate Laureate, is the instigator and driving force behind establishing and implementing Costain’s Climate Change Action Plan to transition to a net-zero organisation. Challenging existing business models and processes, her role is to embed carbon management and drive the design and delivery of whole life low carbon solutions across the Costain Group. Lara is leading the integration of the world’s first standard for managing infrastructure carbon, PAS2080 within the Costain Group.

In 2020 Lara joined the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Carbon Project steering group and is working to incorporate systems thinking to help articulate a future vision for UK infrastructure.

Lara was recently listed in the Energy Saving Trust “Eight Great Women list” for International Women’s day and named the 2021 New Registrant of the Year by the Society for the Environment.