National interior building products distributor CCF has joined forces with manufacturer supply chain partners British Gypsum and Isover to highlight the growing importance of accurate carbon data within the construction supply chain. Held at the Saint Gobain Solutions Centre on ...
Read More »Global initiative launches to align whole-life carbon reporting across the built environment
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has announced the launch of a global initiative designed to harmonise the measurement and reporting of whole-life carbon emissions across the global built environment. CLEAR (Coalition for Life Cycle Emissions Alignment and Reporting) is ...
Read More »Demand for green buildings has slowed according to RICS Sustainability Report
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has released its 2025 Sustainability Report, revealing a slowdown in global demand growth for sustainable buildings and a concerning lack of progress in carbon measurement across construction projects. The report, based on insight ...
Read More »Supporting the supply chain
Hannah Dales of Churchill Group explains the critical role that FM firms have to play in supporting their supply chain with reducing emissions, from education to providing helpful templates and tools As the drive for sustainability accelerates, one of the ...
Read More »Scope 3 emissions – what should FMs know?
By Jonathan Ling, Legal and HR Director at JLA As JLA’s sustainability strategy lead, I take accountability for driving down emissions across our entire value chain. This means I’ve seen first-hand how much influence FMs can have – not just ...
Read More »Foodservice industry leaders champion embodied carbon transparency
The Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI UK&I) has set up a committee of influential organisations to champion sustainability within the commercial foodservice sector. Driven by increasing demand for transparent environmental data and evolving regulatory landscapes, this group issues a collective ...
Read More »Data and decarbonisation
Claire Robinson, Sales Director at IAconnects reviews the range of regulations in place regarding carbon reporting and explains why sound data is the key to ensuring compliance According to the UK Green Building Council, commercial buildings represent 23 per cent ...
Read More »UK’s first cross-industry Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard launches
The Pilot Version of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (UK NZCBS) has launched. It is the UK’s first cross-industry Standard that brings together net zero carbon requirements for all major building types and will enable the UK Built ...
Read More »Bidvest Noonan completes first comprehensive carbon footprint assessment
Bidvest Noonan has completed its first comprehensive carbon footprint assessment, which adheres to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol and the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) standards. The process involved a detailed analysis of emissions from the supply chain, employee commuting, fleet ...
Read More »BCIS launches whole life costs and carbon measurement tool
The Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) has launched a “groundbreaking” tool which measures and reports on whole life costs and whole life carbon emissions at the same time. Life Cycle Evaluator brings together BCIS’s extensive cost data, building on more ...
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