Policy and Regulatory Drivers for Whole Life Carbon in the UK Built Environment Policy and regulation are reshaping whole life carbon in the UK built environment. Explore the key drivers influencing design, construction and asset performance.

Whole life carbon is moving from guidance → policy.

From the London Plan to emerging UK regulation, the direction is clear: measure it, report it, reduce it.📊🏗️
Are you ahead of it, or reacting to it?

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#WholeLifeCarbon #NetZero #UKConstruction

Material Transparency & Dynamic Material Passports Discover how material transparency and dynamic material passports enable circularity, reduce risk, and improve whole life carbon and cost performance across the built environment.

What your building is made from now matters as much as how it performs.

Material transparency + dynamic passports = lower carbon, less risk, smarter assets. ♻️📊

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#NetZero #WholeLifeCarbon #CircularEconomy #BuiltEnvironment #Sustainability

Lifecycle Costing & Carbon: Aligning Financial and Environmental Performance Align lifecycle costing with whole life carbon to improve financial performance, reduce risk, and deliver credible net zero buildings across their full lifespan.

💡 Cost and carbon are not separate decisions.

In a net zero world, they’re the same conversation.

Lifecycle costing + whole life carbon = smarter investments, lower risk, stronger assets.

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#NetZero #WholeLifeCarbon #LifecycleCosting

🚨 The next cohort for the WLCA starts on Thursday 16 April.

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#AECB #WholeLifeCarbon #PHribbon #CarbonLite #Training

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💻 Early Stage Design Decisions and their Impact on Whole Life Carbon with Catherine Sinclair

📆 Weds 18 March 2026

🕙 12-1pm

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⭐ Free to AECB members and £15+vat for non-members

#earlystagedesign #wholelifecarbon

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💻 Early Stage Design Decisions and their Impact on Whole Life Carbon with Catherine Sinclair

📆 Weds 18 March 2026

🕙 12-1pm

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⭐ Free to AECB members and £15+vat for non-members

#earlystagedesign #wholelifecarbon

Retrofitting for Resilience: Reducing Whole Life Carbon in Existing Buildings Explore how a whole-life carbon approach balances upfront and operational emissions to deliver resilient, low-carbon buildings with long-term value.

Retrofitting existing buildings strengthens resilience and reduces whole life carbon. It’s key to net zero in the built environment.

At ADW Developments, we’re inspiring better choices.
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#WholeLifeCarbon #SustainableFuture

🚨 FINAL CALL 🚨

Starts Thurs 22 Jan and runs over 3 sessions. You will need to sign up by Monday 19 Jan if you want access to this cohort!

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Policy and Regulatory Drivers for Whole Life Carbon in the UK Built Environment Policy and regulation are reshaping whole life carbon in the UK built environment. Explore the key drivers influencing design, construction and asset performance.

Policy and regulation are accelerating action on Whole Life Carbon in the UK built environment.

Discover the key drivers shaping design, procurement, and reporting:

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#WholeLifeCarbon #NetZero #BuiltEnvironment #SustainableFuture

🚨 Whole Life Carbon Assessment Course – Starts Thurs 22 Jan and runs over 3 sessions.

🟢 Architects & designers
🟢 Energy consultants
🟢 Sustainability professionals

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#AECB #WholeLifeCarbon #PHribbon #CarbonLite #Training

Upcoming #ReUseNow events: REUSING CONCRETE IN CONSTRUCTION. 7th October 2025 | 12:30-14:00 | online. https://asbp.org.uk/events/reusing-concrete-in-construction . Free for ASBP Members, £20+VAT for non members. Our next Reuse Now webinar puts the spotlight on one of the world’s most used and most carbon-intensive materials - concrete. We’ll explore how concrete can be given a second life, transformed from demolition waste into a vital part of a low-carbon, circular future. Speakers include: Elaine Toogood (Concrete & The Concrete Centre), John F Hunt, Serkan Karatosun (Technical University of Denmark), Laura Batty (Heyne Tillett Steel). 2025 REUSE SUMMIT. 16th October 2025 | 13:00-18:00 (followed by drinks & networking) | London. https://asbp.org.uk/events/2025-reuse-summit . £25+VAT for ASBP members, from £50+VAT for others. This year’s summit focuses on the link between reuse, risk mitigation, and resilience, highlighting practical, strategic pathways to reduce embodied carbon, strengthen supply chains and future-proof business. ASBP’s #ReUseNow team is joined by: Will Arnold (The Institution of Structural Engineers), Paul Lockwood (Cleveland Steel & Tubes), Tim den Dekker (Lignum Risk Partners), Frank Blade (Great Portland Estates), Salvatore Gangemi (McLaren Construction Group), Sophie Thomas (Useful Simple Trust), Elaine Toogood (Concrete & The Concrete Centre). Our Reuse Now Campaign activities are made possible by the ReUse Now sponsors: Cleveland Steel & Tubes Ltd, Optima Systems, Circuland, Excess Materials Exchange, Reusefully Ltd, and Woodknowledge Wales.

#ReUseNow events:
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REUSING CONCRETE IN CONSTRUCTION
7 Oct 2025 | 12:30-14:00 | online

2025 REUSE SUMMIT
16 Oct 2025 | 13:00-18:00 |London

#ReUseNow #ResourceEfficiency #Reuse #WholeLifeCarbon #MaterialPassports #CircularEconomy #LCA #PreDemAudits #Deconstruction

🌍 This work links to EU project "Analysis of Life-cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals of EU Buildings and Construction” [GROW/2022/OP/0005] contracted by European Commission (EC), DG GROW.

#WholeLifeCarbon #EmbodiedCarbon #PolicyScience #OpenScience

Projected embodied carbon emissions from England’s buildings by location, type and regulatory level This document analyses the impact of different levels and extents of regulatory limits on projected embodied carbon emissions in English buildings. Without regulation, delivery of housing targets and ...

4 Key insights for policy makers from the latest University of Sheffield briefing paper.

#EmbodiedCarbon #BuiltEnvironment #SustainableConstruction #GreenBuilding #Construction #NetZero #ClimateAction #ClimatePolicy #WholeLifeCarbon #CarbonBudget #UKPolicy

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Now that the project is live, I’m looking for new opportunities!

If you're looking for a developer who can turn complex ideas into powerful tools, my DMs are open!

Reposts appreciated 🙏

#WholeLifeCarbon #EmbodiedCarbon #PolicyScience #OpenScience

Homepage - Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Conference

Find out more via the conference website sbe.ethz.ch

See you there! 😉

#LifeCycleAssessment #WholeLifeCarbon #BuildingsAndConstruction #ClimatePolicy #BuildingStocks #EuropeanUnion #OpenScience

❤️‍🔥 #CollaborativeCarbon is led by RISE @riselabs.at, einszueins architektur, and TU Delft. It is supported by the European Community Land Trust Network, urbaMonde, World Habitat and many national organizations – and made possible by Laudes Foundation.

#CollaborativeHousing #WholeLifeCarbon

🌍 With the EU set to require #WLC reporting for all new buildings within the next five years, Collaborative Carbon aims to fill a critical knowledge gap by assessing the environmental benefits of collaborative housing across Europe.

#EPBD #WholeLifeCarbon #Taxonomy

Book now for next week’s #ReUseNow lunchtime webinar - hear inspiring speakers who have successfully incorporated #reuse into their business model.

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#ResourceEfficiency #Reuse #WholeLifeCarbon #MaterialPassports #CircularEconomy #LCA #PreDemAudits #ReUseNowConstruction

+ NL limits #embodiedcarbon and not only energy use in operation of buildings and neighbourhoods #wholelifecarbon /hint

Accelerating Whole Life Cycle Climate Action: Launch of GBDI's Open Building Data Platform REGISTRATION Date and time of the Event: 26 February 2025, 4:00-5:30 PM CET Format: Online (zoom link will be sent after registration) Organizers: Global Building Data Initiative (GBDI) Contacts: le...

👉 Sign up now for the Online Launch Event on 26th February 2025!

Join our newsletter via GBDIs website (www.gbdi.io) or the Linkedin event page (www.linkedin.com/events/gbdio...) to stay informed as we reveal further details!

#WholeLifeCarbon #EmbodiedCarbon #ClimateAction #SustainableBuildings

Even the best existing green building standards need a reality check at #embodiedcarbon #wholelifecarbon:
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Check out the recordings from these informative 2024 @asbpuk.bsky.social webinars. asbp.org.uk/webinar-reco...

#BioMaterials #ReUse #MassTimber #EPD #NFI #Retrofit #WholeLifeCarbon #MaterialPassports #NaturalPaints #LowCarbon #CircularEconomy #BiogenicCarbon #MTIP #LCA #PreDemAudits #ReUseNow

🤝 I am looking forward to the coming events and to working with our group of partners and the national teams in Austria, Italy, Luxembourg, Croatia and Hungary on advancing #WholeLifeCarbon and #LCA of #buildings across Europe!

🏢The Italian team is working together with the goal of supporting industry and policy action on #WholeLifeCarbon (WLC), and support the efficient implementation of the #EPBD. Thanks to University of Bergamo, ENEA, Politecnico di Milano, Harpaceas Srl, Politecnico di Torino, and GBC Italia!

Our Autumn #CircularEconomy events start on 19 Sept with an online ‘talking heads’ discussion between our CEO @lowcarbonsimon.bsky.social & Ian Poole, Senior Whole Life Carbon Officer at Westminster City Council.
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#ReUseNow #LowCarbon #ResourceEfficiency #WholeLifeCarbon

Our #CircularEconomy and #ReUseNow events kick off on 19 Sept 2024 with a lunchtime ‘talking heads’ webinar. Our CEO Simon Corbey will chat with Westminster City Council Senior #WholeLifeCarbon Officer Ian Poole.

More about this, and our other events here ➡️ us5.campaign-archive.com?u=c613327e65...

Check out ASBP’s upcoming #CircularEconomy events - kicking off on 19 Sept with a Talking Heads discussion between ASBP’s Simon Corbey & Ian Poole of Westminster City Council. us5.campaign-archive.com?u=c613327e65...

#ReUseNow #LowCarbon #ResourceEfficiency #WholeLifeCarbon

In my #AnadaptaDiary: Examining #WholeLifeCarbon of Existing Schools – Retrofit Versus Demolition.
An AECB webinar with Antonia Khayatt of Retrofit Action for Tomorrow (RAFT).

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My thanks to the owners of Oakhill Passivhaus (and @JimMillerDesign) for a warm welcome to this lovely home as part of #iPHopendays. It’s a wonderful example of building with low #WholeLifeCarbon in mind, and even some #reuse of the materials from the site www.passivhaustrust.org.uk/news/detail/...