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Coalition for UK Net Zero Buildings Standard launches a Call for Evidence

On 9 November 2022, the Coalition for UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (NZCBS) launched a Call for Evidence for UK built environment industry practitioners to share embodied carbon and in-use operational energy performance data for their buildings.

NZCBS consists of a number of key market stakeholders, including the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Carbon Trust and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. NZCBS intends to develop a standard that will set out metrics by which net zero carbon performance is evaluated, creating a single market methodology, as well as performance targets and limits that need to be met.

In order to achieve this, the evidence collected will be used to create an agreed benchmark for the operational energy usage and embodied carbon performance levels today so as to aid the process of setting targets for future years based on the industry’s projected decarbonisation trajectory.

The deadline for providing evidence is 16 December 2022.

Click here to view NZCBS' Call for Evidence.