Industry Comes Together To Collaborate On Whole Life Carbon Roadmap Project

UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) logo The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has announced four new task groups and a Steering Group which will support the development of the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap for the Built Environment.

The Roadmap, announced in December, aims to develop a trajectory of carbon reduction targets and actions, covering the total lifecycle impact of the built environment in the UK, and secure the support of relevant industry actors in delivering decarbonisation. The project is a co-owned process that brings together key stakeholders from across the built environment sector.



Four task groups comprised of over 50 experts have been formed to work through the decarbonisation implications across sectors and develop a timeline of solutions. An industry-wide Steering Group has also been formed to oversee the Roadmap and provide strategic input throughout the process.

This project is part of a multi-national project (#BuildingLife) coordinated by WorldGBC and made possible with the support of Laudes Foundation and Ikea Foundation. The development of national Roadmaps will be led by GBCs across 10 European markets in the lead up to COP26 and will aim to build a common vision and agreed actions for achieving net zero carbon in the construction, operation and demolition of buildings and infrastructure.

UKGBC will undertake a consultation on the draft roadmap proposals in June-July 2021 to capture perspectives from across the industry.

Tom Spurrier, Roadmap Project Lead at UKGBC, said:

“Delivering the carbon reductions required to bring us in line with a 1.5 degree trajectory is an industry-wide challenge that must be met with an industry-wide response. It is therefore essential we come together to develop a shared, coherent plan of action which sets out clear actions and targets for stakeholders across our industry to work towards, which is exactly the purpose of the Whole Life Carbon Roadmap project.

“The volume of applications received for each task group is testament to the level of ambition across our industry. The practical experience and input from each task group member will be instrumental in ensuring the Roadmap can be readily adopted by industry, and put us on track to meeting our climate targets without delay.”

Four task groups have been formed to support the development of UKGBC’s Whole Life Carbon Roadmap for the built environment. They consist of representatives from the following organisations:

New Build:

  • Arup
  • Atelier Ten
  • Bennetts Associates
  • BRE
  • Burges Salmon
  • Buro Happold
  • chapmanbdsp
  • Cundall
  • Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
  • Hilson Moran
  • igloo Regeneration
  • London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI)
  • Mott MacDonald
  • Multiplex
  • Peel L&P
  • Perkins +Will
  • Pollard Thomas Edwards
  • SEGRO plc
  • Sustainability, Buildings + Places Group, AECOM
  • Sweco UK
  • Thakeham Group
  • The Concrete Centre
  • Turley
  • Willmott Dixon

Retrofit: Residential:

  • Active Building Centre
  • Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP)
  • Arup
  • Dorrington PLC
  • Energy Systems Catapult
  • Essex County Council
  • Federation Of Master Builders
  • Grainger PLC
  • Greengage Environmental
  • Hoare Lea
  • Knauf Insulation
  • London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI)
  • Pivot Energy Services
  • SHAP (Sustainable Housing Action Partnership)
  • South Yorkshire Housing Association
  • Twinn Sustainability Innovation

Retrofit: Commercial:

  • Acclaro Advisory
  • BDP
  • Cundall
  • Derwent London
  • Elementa Consulting
  • Hawkins\Brown
  • London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI)
  • MAPP
  • Morrisons Plc
  • Overbury and Morgan Lovell
  • SOM
  • The Carbon Trust
  • The Crown Estate
  • Tuffin Ferraby Taylor
  • Verco
  • WSP

Infrastructure: 

  • BAM Nuttall
  • BuroHappold
  • CALA Group (CALA Homes)
  • Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES)
  • dRMM
  • High Speed Two (HS2)
  • London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI)
  • Mott MacDonald
  • National Grid
  • Schneider Electric
  • Skanska UK PLC
  • Tarmac
  • Tata Steel

The task groups are being supported by a Steering Group which includes representation from the following organisations:

  • AECOM
  • Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)
  • BEIS
  • Better Buildings Partnership (BBP)
  • British Retail Consortium (BRC)
  • BuroHappold
  • CIBSE
  • Construction Industry Training Board (CiTB)
  • Construction Leadership Council (CLC)
  • Construction Innovation Hub
  • Cundall
  • Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC)
  • Future Homes Task Force
  • Green Construction Board (GCB)
  • Good Homes Alliance (GHA)
  • Hoare Lea
  • Home Builders Federation
  • JLL
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • MHCLG
  • Mott MacDonald
  • NatWest
  • NHS Improvements
  • Office of Government Property (OGP)
  • Retrofit Academy
  • RIBA
  • RICS
  • Skanska
  • The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)
  • Tritax Big Box

Industry Comes Together To Collaborate On Whole Life Carbon Roadmap Project