{"id":70764,"date":"2020-01-27T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=70764"},"modified":"2020-01-27T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T09:45:50","slug":"climate-emergency-design-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/climate-emergency-design-guide\/70764\/","title":{"rendered":"AEC experts launch Climate Emergency Design Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Leading architects, engineers and building professionals have joined forces to launch the \u2018Climate Emergency Design Guide\u2019, providing a blueprint on how the construction industry can tackle the climate emergency<\/h2>\n<p>The Climate Emergency Design Guide is published by LETI- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leti.london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the London Energy Transformation Initiative<\/a>. Groups backing the call include the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Royal Institute of British Architects<\/a> (RIBA) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cibse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers<\/a> (CIBSE).<\/p>\n<h3>Climate Emergency Design Guide<\/h3>\n<p>The Climate Emergency Design Guide outlines the requirements of new buildings to ensure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/buildings-operate-net-zero-carbon\/33469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">climate change targets<\/a> are met.<\/p>\n<p>This free to access new publication written collectively by more than 100 industry professionals and supported by thousands more, offers a blueprint on how the construction industry can react and work together to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/housebuilders-climate-emergency\/57060\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tackle the climate emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hywel Davies, technical director at CIBSE, said: \u201cDelivering zero carbon buildings is a huge challenge. LETI has taken a major step to help the industry to work out how this is to be done for new buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Clark, chair of RIBA sustainable futures group, added: \u201c2020 is the year of climate action. We urgently need clear and practical guides on how to deliver net-zero carbon future now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new LETI guides fulfil this aim and are a timely addition to the growing suite of guides. This is a must-read for construction professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Carbon emissions from UK buildings<\/h3>\n<p>Unlike other parts of the economy, carbon emissions from UK buildings are not falling. The built environment has an essential role in meeting the government\u2019s target of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, and playing a part in stopping runaway climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the UK is not on a coordinated track to meet these goals. LETI has been driving to create coordinated consensus and simple road maps to achieve our climate aims.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting, Clara Bagenal George (associate at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elementaconsulting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elementa Consulting<\/a>) who initiated LETI the London Energy Transformations Initiative (LETI) and lead editor of the report, commented: \u201cThe building industry knows that we should be designing climate-friendly buildings now, but unfortunately only a fraction of new properties are of the standard needed to meet our climate targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know how to do it, but without the government showing similar ambition, unfortunately we will drift further from where we need to be. This collective call from all parts of the building industry is a clear and straightforward explainer of what is expected of us and how we can get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Cutting carbon emissions<\/h3>\n<p>Achieving the UK\u2019s net-zero emissions target will require cutting carbon emissions from all areas of the economy, before balancing the rest with negative emissions, such as planting trees or investing in technology to remove carbon from the air.<\/p>\n<p>Building new homes to the highest efficient standards is the first step in cutting emissions from housing. The government\u2019s statutory advisors on climate change, the Committee on Climate Change, have said that new homes should use much less energy than those currently being built, that in-use performance should be used instead of modelled performance, and that a plan to retrofit the existing building stock is urgently needed. Many of these points are echoed by industry in the Climate Emergency Design Guide.<\/p>\n<p>Clare Murray (head of sustainability for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.levittbernstein.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Levitt Bernstein<\/a>) design editor of the guide, said: \u201cThe Climate Emergency Design Guide has been a year in the making and forms a consensus from over 100 professionals on how we can meet net-zero carbon. It graphically explains the definition of whole life carbon, how to achieve net-zero operational carbon, the relationships between operational and embodied carbon and much more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith spreads providing guidance for domestic and non-domestic archetypes and key performance indicators \u2013 this guide aims to make technical guidance on zero carbon accessible to the wider industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Standard design practice<\/h3>\n<p>The research and thought presented in the document demonstrates that the building industry knows how we should be designing buildings now, from 2020, but that clear leadership and guidance is required to promote wide-ranging positive change. Buildings that adopt these requirements now will be seen as leaders.<\/p>\n<p>By 2025 for new buildings and 2050 for our existing stock these requirements must become standard design practice otherwise the building industry will not meet our collective responsibility in this Climate crisis and we will fail our next generation.<\/p>\n<p>The Guide represents voices from across the buildings sector, including Allies and Morrison, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Levitt Bernstein, Elementa, Hawkins\\Brown, DRMM, Haworth Tompkins, Woods Bagot, Etude, Cundall, AECOM, BDP, Hilson Moran, Thornton Tomasetti, ACAN, XCO2, Currie &amp; Brown, Verco and Twinn Sustainability Innovation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading architects, engineers and building professionals have joined forces to launch the \u2018Climate Emergency Design Guide\u2019, providing a blueprint on how the construction industry can tackle the climate emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[702,594,710,693,676,430,636,465],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-architecture","8":"tag-building-design","9":"tag-cibse","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-construction","12":"tag-energy-efficiency","13":"tag-engineering","14":"tag-sustainable-construction"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AEC experts launch Climate Emergency Design Guide<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leading architects, engineers and building professionals have joined forces to launch the Climate Emergency Design Guide today\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/climate-emergency-design-guide\/70764\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AEC experts launch Climate Emergency Design Guide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leading architects, engineers and building professionals have joined forces to launch the \u2018Climate Emergency Design Guide\u2019, providing a blueprint on how the construction industry can tackle the climate emergency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/climate-emergency-design-guide\/70764\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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