The built environment contributes around 40% of the UK’s total carbon footprint, indicating just how important the sector is to achieving net zero, so BSIgroup is introducing best practice guidance standards on managing and reducing carbon emissions.
image: BSI infographic
… Standards play a vital role in enabling the sector’s shift to net zero…
BSIgroup writes:
The built environment contributes around 40% of the UK’s total carbon footprint, indicating just how important the sector is to achieving net zero carbon emissions and the size of the challenge that it faces.
In order to reduce its environmental impact, the built environment needs to address embodied carbon, used during the whole life of a structure, as well as operational carbon, including energy used for heating, cooling and power.
Standards play a vital role in enabling the sector’s shift to net zero, covering lower-carbon products and materials, energy efficiency, alternative fuels and more sustainable methods of construction, operation, decommissioning and recycling.
To help you start building a best practice framework for managing and reducing carbon emissions, BSI has created a new infographic highlighting some of the key sustainability-focused standards across construction, infrastructure and building efficiency.
