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Experts working across the built environment have called for the government to extend the scope of a major new building standard to include embodied carbon and a clear strategy to retrofit buildings
A coalition of architecture, engineering and heat specialists have urged the government to drastically rethink policy to improve the energy efficiency of buildings for its proposed Future Buildings Standard.
A focus on supporting effective retrofitting of the entire UK housing stock, while considering how to cut carbon emissions across the entire lifecycle of a building, have been highlighted as essential reforms that the government should introduce to any new standard for more efficient buildings.
The same principle of science-based targets is also now getting applied to the operation of buildings through the Carbon Risk Real Estate Monitor (CRREM). This is highlighted by the IIGCC’s Net Zero Investment Framework as the main tool for assessing real estate and is already sending shivers down the spines of investors with its graphs forecasting stranded assets over the next 30 years.
The idea behind CRREM is that you can plot your building’s performance against a science-based trajectory for that type of asset. And when it exceeds its “carbon budget” it becomes stranded because it is no longer in line with the Paris agreement. If this happens, the asset will potentially attract a “brown discount” from investors and start losing value.
Big names slam draft Future Buildings Standard and demand national retrofit plan Digital Edition: Big names slam draft Future Buildings Standard and demand national retrofit plan A group of 21 leading built environment and climate action organisations has hit out at ‘significant shortcomings’ in the government’s proposed new energy and ventilation standards for non-domestic buildings and existing homes in England
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Future Buildings Standard: Building professionals and green NGOs slam significant shortcomings
Modular, low carbon homes being developed in Kent | Credit: Public Sector plc
21 organisations call for new National Retrofit Strategy in letter to top civil servant at housing ministry, warning current standards lack vision and ambition’
Green campaigners have joined forces with the UK s leading built environment groups to urge the government to take steps to make its new building energy regulation proposals more ambitious, warning that significant shortcomings in the draft plans could hold back the much-needed decarbonisation of the UK s buildings.
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), and the UK Green Building Council are among 21 organisations that have written to the government to express their concerns about the Future Buildings Standard, the policy package geared at greening the