Stand Up for Race Equality

Network Rail’s diversity and inclusion strategy,Β Everyone Matters,Β describes our ambitions to be a more open, diverse and inclusive organisation. Our Race Matters project is one part of our strategy and aims to remove barriers that we know black, Asian and minority ethnic employees and candidates face at Network Rail. As part of this project, working with […]

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Designing for Low Whole-Life Carbon

Contents What is Designing for Low Whole-Life Carbon – Decarbonisation Programme Workstream 13? Carbon terminology explained Examples of capital carbon Examples of operational carbon Why is whole-life carbon reduction important to Network Rail? Promoting innovative carbon reduction (the Carbon Innovation Hopper) __________________________________________________________________ 1.   What is Designing for Low Whole-Life Carbon – Decarbonisation Programme Workstream 13? […]

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Degree Days – accounting for the weather

The weather – or rather, the external temperature – has a significant effect on energy use, particularly in buildings or for heating energy use.  It is important to consider these factors when assessing energy use or looking for areas of excess consumption. Degree days help us to understand how hot or cold it’s been.  They […]

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Heart Health

Keeping your heart healthy, whatever your age, is one of the most important things you can do for your long-term health. Unfortunately, around one in three of all deaths is caused by cardiovascular disease (CVD), which involves narrowed or hardened blood vessels. Whilst some of this can be caused by things we can’t control, such […]

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