22 June 2011

Constructing Excellence to lead on IGT issues

The response from the Government to the Low Carbon Construction Innovation and Growth Team (IGT) report is out today and Constructing Excellence will now be leading on a series of issues to help establish the UK as a world leader in sustainable construction and refurbishment.

The key areas to be lead by Constructing Excellence are:

• Develop an industry proposal for a construction specific major projects review group to work in collaboration with existing bodies and Government, including setting out the terms of reference, ways of working and membership.

  By September 2011

• Undertake a project to determine whether it is possible to deliver, using collaborative working principles, a sustainable retrofit of a school that achieves a 70% reduction in carbon emissions for the same capital cost as a refurbishment to Building Regulations standards.

  By Summer 2012

• Participate in a collaborative forum, to identify when the use of BIM is appropriate (in terms of the type or scale of project), what the barriers to its more widespread take-up are, and how those barriers might be surpassed, leading to an outline protocol for future ways of working.
• Work with Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes to lead the develop and publish a transparent, co-ordinated structure for the many organisations involved in research, advice, policy development and delivery for carbon reduction, making clear the role, scope of work and authority of each, and how each connects to Government, whether directly or indirectly.

  Winter 2011

• The Construction Clients' Group will lead research through engagement with its client members and advisers, to understand how the market values low carbon buildings, both today and looking into the future, and how incentives interact with the decisions made by owner occupiers, property investors and tenants to build lower carbon buildings and use the more efficiently.

For more information on the Low Carbon Construction IGT please click here.

Author: Jenny Parker




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