Ongoing Forum

Net Zero Forum

A space where organisations from across the built environment come together to share learnings and experiences on the pathway to net zero carbon, enabling collective progress to be made through industry-wide collaboration.

Climate Change Mitigation Advancing Net Zero Forum

Future opportunity

About the Forum

UKGBC’s Net Zero Forum brings together industry professionals who are actively working on net zero within the built environment to share learnings, find solutions, and collectively make progress. The intention of the Net Zero Forum is to create a supportive community of peers from within the UKGBC membership to explore shared challenges with achieving net zero carbon and discuss the solutions to them.

As ‘net zero’ is a broad term, the forum will be split into sub-groups on specific topics. Collaborative and informal meetings will be held monthly for a period of six-months for each topic. Topics will be repeated should there by high demand.

Target audience

The Net Zero Forum is open to individuals at UKGBC member organisations who are actively working on topics and projects directly related to the relevant sub-group area.

Non-Domestic Retrofit

Building upon UKGBC’s ongoing non-domestic retrofit workstream, this is a sub-group to support our members who work on the retrofit of existing non-domestic buildings. Either as a designer, engineer, consultant, contractor, owner, facilities manager, local authority, national government representative, or developer.

Whole Life Carbon Modelling

Building upon UKGBC’s embodied carbon workstream, this is a sub-group to support our members who actively undertake whole life carbon assessments. With the recent update to the RICS WLCA Professional Standard, and the upcoming Net Zero Carbon Building Standard, this sub-group is to share learnings and challenges when undertaking WLC modelling. The sub-group is aimed at designers, engineers, consultants, and building owners.

Outputs

You may have seen other UKGBC forums publish outputs, such as the Circular Economy metrics paper. Such outputs share the work the Forum has been doing and are an opportunity to present challenges and solutions to relevant issues. The outputs typically take the form of blog posts and events which allow the knowledge generated to be shared widely. UKGBC would also be open to the Net Zero forum publishing similar outputs, should the members wish to do so and the suggested output is suitable.

Upcoming meetings and how to get involved

Non-Domestic Retrofit subgroup meetings:

• 23rd October 2024, 3-4 pm

• 20th November 2024, 3-4 pm

Whole Life Carbon Modelling subgroup meetings:

• 23rd October 2024, 4-5 pm

• 20th November 2024, 4-5 pm

Learn more and apply here

Get involved

Learn more about the forum by talking to our UKGBC representatives.

Alex Benstead Senior Advisor – Advancing Net Zero

Simon Matthews Advisor – Advancing Net Zero

Advancing Net Zero

Created in 2018 as part of a World Green Building Council initiative, UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero programme has a mission to lead the UK’s transition to a net zero built environment. It has produced leading guidance such as the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework and the Net Zero Whole Life Carbon Roadmap, whilst working with organisations and experts across the industry.