{"id":85918,"date":"2020-11-27T10:52:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T10:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=85918"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:47:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:47:27","slug":"net-zero-carbon-buildings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/net-zero-carbon-buildings-2\/85918\/","title":{"rendered":"UKGBC guidance to facilitate delivery of net-zero carbon buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukgbc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK Green Building Council<\/a> (UKGBC) has published new guidance which examines how current barriers to the delivery of net-zero carbon buildings can be overcome<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/click.agilitypr.delivery\/ls\/click?upn=cWA6ZAsx99oWqM3yqk5KRB8K2LuslwkMshP68aWgdEBiJvxqAByc5oZha2t06v1X-2BowyoYcflmeIdKsuCxBqzJliNuvtPkxF6IXCAJiqKQ-2BrV3tcW7pf6OJFVGP-2F62TNbwEe_eEB1c-2Bzp2QliOE8twPE6GxkQeVoHKJCC26c15tq492jKAYLo-2F38QYlSYpJTAx0BJx3FPCY8SGJqKia-2BGksY06T6oZNX2lMiZ4KWG2eEYnVuVnelgyIKJqWkgVcwi2-2FsE6Alr5-2FUg7NAB7ehb48lLLNB6jRogIHvhwWJG29vknXLdW68LpmGiuZbdnSUMpiVO6yqpe835iw9Wy11ndvecEbucdxeP1KO88JUdvoFGBE7heL-2FYgGh4fBaDzbs8bfqjRvuBEQv6Q8ZimbsV4BzjktcZLtonf6E7wI6I6QpqYXtHUHN7z6ukGyDPplkQiK3AwDvh25OnVZM3B6RbmWZddN1OMMDaGqLCuomdZGBF7-2FCrt448g0HzJdtpQS42gzA7079dO4T-2BKjHc9-2FYu0eV0yNAA2ZV2SFJKJ-2BvTvv-2F3rWo-3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unlocking the Delivery of Net Zero Carbon Buildings<\/a>\u2019 identifies a need for further research into the current challenges faced by those striving to deliver net-zero carbon buildings.<\/p>\n<p>This new guidance is intended to help developers and project teams identify and respond to likely barriers throughout the process of delivering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/building-carbon-footprint\/85540\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">net-zero carbon buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside each barrier is a corresponding opportunity that explores how it can be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>The guidance sets out a total of 17 barriers, grouped by RIBA stage, and categorises the opportunities to address them against four themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Design<\/strong> \u2013 ways to integrate net-zero carbon into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/bim-impacted-building-design\/84379\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">building design<\/a> or design process. This includes setting net-zero carbon outcomes early in the project\u2019s strategy which can inspire design teams to think innovatively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost<\/strong> \u2013 ways to finance net-zero carbon buildings. This includes accounting for future \u2018brown discounts\u2019 and \u2018green premiums\u2019 and a shift in perspective to whole life investment rather than just immediate capital expenditure.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stakeholder engagement <\/strong>\u2013 ways to integrate net-zero carbon into the decision-making process of all stakeholders. This includes identifying growing investor and occupier net-zero ambitions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovation<\/strong> \u2013 ways of capitalising on new processes, mechanisms, and technologies to achieve net-zero buildings. This includes using new financing mechanisms and alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/sustainable-building-materials\/57864\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">building materials<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u2018The race to net-zero is on\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>Alastair Mant, head of business transformation at UKGBC, said: \u201cThe race to net-zero is on and it\u2019s fantastic to see many developers and design teams setting bold ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAchieving the necessary reductions in embodied and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/construction-technology-news\/digital-engineering-zero-carbon-goals\/84796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">operational carbon<\/a> requires large scale changes to how buildings are designed, constructed, and operated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many barriers along the way and we must work quickly to identify them and the corresponding opportunities to overcome them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have created this guidance to point developers and design teams towards some existing opportunities and we will keep sharing solutions in order to accelerate the transition to net-zero carbon buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has published new guidance which examines how current barriers to the delivery of net-zero carbon buildings can be overcome.<\/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":[566,594,277,693,93645,593],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-energy-news","7":"tag-air-quality","8":"tag-building-design","9":"tag-built-environment","10":"tag-climate-change","11":"tag-net-zero","12":"tag-uk-green-building-council"},"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>UKGBC guidance to facilitate delivery of net-zero carbon buildings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The UKGBC has published new guidance which examines how current barriers to the delivery of net-zero carbon buildings can be overcome\" \/>\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\/net-zero-carbon-buildings-2\/85918\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UKGBC guidance to facilitate delivery of net-zero carbon buildings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The UKGBC has published new guidance which examines how current barriers to the delivery of net-zero carbon buildings can be overcome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/net-zero-carbon-buildings-2\/85918\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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