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The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has published the second iteration of the National Retrofit Strategy, a twenty-year blueprint for how the construction industry can work with Government to retrofit the UK’s 28 million existing homes. Following open consultation with the construction industry, the strategy now has over 50 supporter organisations.
In partnership with 38 signatories, the CLC has written to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, enclosing the strategy, and calling on the Government to adopt its themes within the content and implementation of the Heat and Buildings Strategy.
Mark Reynolds, Deputy Chair of the Construction Leadership Council, said: “Our homes account for 20% of UK carbon emissions and 35% of energy use. To deliver on the Prime Minister’s commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, the construction industry must work with the Government and take action on reducing the environmental
The UK government has made a legal commitment to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 but - in order to achieve this - we need to decarbonise our homes and buildings.
With our existing homes using 35% of all the energy in the UK, and responsible for 20% of carbon dioxide emissions, the National Retrofit Strategy - which is being backed by the Construction Leadership Council - puts forward a plan for upgrades that are vital if we are to meet the country’s net zero targets.
Join our panel of experts leading the way, as we learn how we can put the plan to best use and determine how everyone can adopt the strategy’s recommendations.
TWO new additions to a construction industry trade body representing Swindon members will help increase eco-friendly housing in the area. The Builders Merchants Federation has elected two business leaders as its latest members: Travis Perkins plc chief operating officer Frank Elkins and Bradfords Building Supplies Ltd s group finance director Lee Harwood. The appointments come as the BMF prepares to play a key role in shaping the future of greener housing in Swindon and across the UK. Chairman Richard Hill said: “We are delighted to welcome two excellent representatives of our broad membership to the board. “The range of experience they offer will be extremely valuable as we move forward post-pandemic towards a low-carbon economy.”
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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