Kevin Griffiths

‘We all keep an eye on each other.’.

However, some have been released by LETI, RIBA and others, and there is an effort within the industry to get them aligned.What we need now is for organisations, clients and engineers to do the calculations to find out what the embodied carbon is within their building designs — both at the design stage and post completion.

We need to be monitoring what is actually going into buildings, compared to what we think should be going in.This means that contractors need to get on board as well.Ultimately, we’ll have to collate the data together as an industry, but benchmarks will help us learn, and guide us at the design stage..

Creating a sustainable future — alignment of standards and guidance.One of the key challenges we need to address in our quest for a sustainable future, is to align the various forms of guidance and advice coming into the industry from different sources.

There are currently a number of different institutions involved, all representing different parties within the built environment.

While it’s positive they all have the same net zero goal, they offer different guidance.- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s).

- Shortage of construction expertise.- MEP co-ordination.

Conclusions for the industry.Timber is a renewable material that has the potential to help decarbonise new buildings.