Hard data and robust benchmarks are necessary for commercial offices to successfully address both embodied and operational carbon. That’s the key finding from a new British Council for Offices report.
Delivering Net Zero Carbon In The Workplace called for empirical evidence and robust tailored benchmarks for both operational and embodied carbon.
The BCO notes that the ongoing industry-led initiative to develop a net-zero carbon buildings standard for the UK “could also help provide clear and consistent methodology along with real-world data to show how net-zero performance could be achieved in different building types”.
Any targets must differentiate between different types of office and their intensity of operation.
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