{"id":31531,"date":"2021-10-26T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31531"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T15:33:08","slug":"govt-building-strategy-to-look-at-embodied-carbon-says-government-dont-demolish-mend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=31531","title":{"rendered":"Govt. Building Strategy to look at embodied carbon, says government: Don\u2019t demolish\u2026 mend!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"The government is looking at how to tackle \u2018embodied carbon\u2019 as part of an upcoming building strategy, the BBC reports, as Lord Deben says \u2018It\u2019s not acceptable to pull buildings down.. We have to learn to make do and mend.\u2019<\/h3>\n

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\u2026 Making steel, concrete and bricks for buildings creates a lot of carbon\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n

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Developers may have won praise in the past for demolishing draughty buildings for energy-efficient replacements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But engineers now say existing buildings should be kept standing due to the amount of carbon emitted when original building materials were made – known as embodied carbon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A government spokeswoman said they were working on this issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And Business minister Lord Callanan told a recent conference that it was “one of the areas we want to look at”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But despite the peer saying the government was in “the final stages” of creating its new heat and building strategy, neither gave more detail about what measures may appear….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Making steel, concrete and bricks for buildings creates a lot of carbon, with concrete alone causing 8% of global emissions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As a result, climate experts are urging ministers to make it hard for developers to demolish buildings without first exploring ways to refurbish and extend them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The chairman of the government\u2019s advisory climate change committee, Lord Deben, said the government had been slow to accept this reversal of established thinking and ministers had not had “the will and the clout to develop these policies”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe need to think differently,” he said. “It\u2019s not acceptable to pull buildings down like this. We have to learn to make do and mend.”<\/p>\n

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The government is looking at how to tackle \u2018embodied carbon\u2019 as part of an upcoming building strategy, the BBC reports, as Lord Deben says \u2018It\u2019s not acceptable to pull buildings down.. We have to learn to make do and mend.\u2019 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31532,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31531\/revisions\/31532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}