Pilot version of UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard released

The pilot version of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (UKNZCBS) has been released.

The launch of the Pilot Version of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard is the culmination of a collaboration from experts across the UK Built Environment Industry, enabling the industry to robustly prove their built assets are net zero carbon and in line with our nation’s climate targets.

The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (“the Standard”) is a free-to-access technical standard that will enable the built environment to robustly prove that built assets align with the UK’s carbon and energy budgets.

Until this point, there has been no single, agreed methodology for defining what ‘net zero carbon’ means for buildings in the UK. Consequently, the area has been rife with spurious claims around the topic.

The Standard provides a set of consistent rules to create a level playing field around such claims.

The Standard is for anyone who wants to fund, procure, design, or specify a net zero carbon building, and for anyone who wishes to definitively demonstrate that their building is net zero carbon aligned.

As a robust industry-backed initiative, the Standard should be useful to policymakers as it outlines what is needed to support the UK’s net zero carbon transition.

The Standard Pilot Version contains the technical details on how a building should meet the Standard, including what limits and targets it needs to meet, the technical evidence needed to demonstrate this and how it should be reported. In the future, projects will be able to verify that a project conforms to the Standard.

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