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Keep up to dateBy Thomas Lane2024-04-19T06:00:00
Source: Paul Karalius
David Partridge has been tasked with bringing together construction’s many and varied definitions of net zero. He tells Thomas Lane why setting a recognised and easily understood benchmark for whole-life carbon emissions is so important
David Partridge shows me a slide to demonstrate why the industry needs another net zero carbon building standard. The slide has 15 different industry definitions of net zero.
There is LETI’s climate emergency design guide, the RICS whole life carbon assessment for the built environment, guidance for a net zero National Health Service, the RIBA 2030 climate challenge, NABERS and the UKGBC’s NZC building verification to name a few.
“I was speaking to an architect at one of our engagement sessions who said he spent the first six months of any discussion with clients understanding what their definition of net zero was before he could even begin designing the building,” Partridge, the chair of developer Related Argent, says.
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