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Event slides from Simon Sturgis on "The RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment Professional Standard - What's New?"

What does it take to win a place on one of London’s top climate-change accelerators?

The Beauty of Timber in Construction

How carbon emissions from the built environment can be controlled and mitigated by a government endorsed voluntary certification programme.

In the first of a new series of interviews for the Construction Carbon blog, we caught up with Amie Shuttleworth, Founder and Director of sustainability consultancy Shuttleworth Waite Limited.

The Government’s recent uplift to building regulations Part L has fuelled disappointment across the construction sector. The UKGBC’s reaction came as: “details missing which could and should have clarified what more will be done to deliver net zero buildings by 2050”.

In the second of a new series of interviews for Construction Carbon’s blog, we caught up with Founder and Chair of Whole Life Carbon Network and built environment expert, Simon Sturgis.

29 years. This is how long the construction industry has, at the very maximum, to reach net zero emissions.

Embodied carbon is fast becoming a hot topic. For years the construction industry has worked towards energy efficiency, regulating in-use building emissions such as heating and water.

Saying that the path leading to full decarbonization of the built environment is impervious would be an understatement. Especially for what concerns the stretch leading to the neutralization of embedded carbon.