Sustainable Building Experts to Carry Out Assessments Based on Latest Guide to Cut Embodied Carbon Emissions
Sustainable building consultancy, Sustain Quality has welcomed the latest LETI guide, The Low Embodied Carbon Specification and Procurement, which it will now adopt in order to provide accurate and high industry standard Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Whole Life Cycle Assessment (WLCA) for commercial and residential developments.
LETI (Low Energy Transformation Initiative) is a voluntary network of thousands of built environment professionals, coming together to create clear guides and roadmaps which help designers, developers and contractors do their part for a zero carbon future. This latest guide focuses on the reduction of embodied carbon, which is the carbon dioxide emission associated with materials and construction processes through the entire life cycle of a building.
“The guide provides a clear pathway to low carbon specification of materials and demonstrates the steps that can be put in place to help drive towards project embodied carbon limits through effective roadmaps and procurement strategies,” LETI said in a statement.
Thiago Haberli CEnv, Sustain Quality Director, said: “It is clear that the building industry needs to enact profound changes if the United Kingdom is to meet the 2050 deadline of zero net carbon. With the heating and powering of buildings accounting for roughly 40% of the UK’s total energy use as of December 2021, there is a lot of focus on cutting operational carbon emissions down to zero.
“However, the importance of bringing down embodied carbon emissions – those relating to materials, construction, and the eventual demolition and disposal of the buildings – cannot be overstated. Until now designers, developers and contractors had no clear roadmap towards cutting down embodied carbon emissions. LETI’s newest guide fills that void, and is a precious resource that Sustain Quality will adopt for all assessments going forward.”
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