Guidance
Discover all of our Guidance resources.
What does UKGBC mean by Guidance?
A Guidance resource is produced by our teams to offer step by step guidance, a toolkit or framework for industry to use as they look to implement sustainability best practice in their day to day work.
They are tailored to a number of stakeholders with supporting studies and technical information to give you all the context you need to use them.
Local Area Retrofit Accelerator ‘Getting Started Toolkit’
A guide for Local Authorities who want to set up ‘Retrofit Facilitation Services’ for households in their area.
Embodied Carbon: Scope 3 Measurement and Reporting
Understand how to streamline your Scope 3 and embodied carbon measuring and reporting.
Embodied Carbon Modelling and Reporting
This guidance from UKGBC builds on existing industry outputs to improve the transparency of embodied carbon assessments, helping industry to accurately model and report on embodied carbon within construction projects.
Biodiversity Net Gain Checklists
UKGBC’s Biodiversity Net Gain Checklists take you through more than 30 detailed steps, outlining what…
Financing Biodiversity Net Gain Short Report
Short report explores key funding avenues for industry projects and stresses the need for financing Biodiversity Net Gain.
Renewable Energy Procurement Part 2
This guidance from UKGBC on Renewable Energy Procurement seeks to empower stakeholders tasked with procuring energy in the built environment to do so in a way that enables them to realise their climate ambition, while supporting the continued decarbonisation of the electricity supply sector.
Carbon Offsetting and Pricing Guidance
Guide to support the significant efforts needed to achieve our net zero ambitions, based on established industry thinking and discussions with built environment professionals.
The Nature Recovery and Climate Resilience Playbook
This toolkit is designed to empower local authorities and planning officers to enhance climate resilience and better protect nature across their local area.
Delivering Net Zero: Key Considerations for Commercial Retrofits
Guide to support the significant efforts needed to achieve our net zero ambitions, based on established industry thinking and discussions with built environment professionals.
A Guide for Delivering Social Value on Built Environment Projects
In the last couple of years, a significant amount of social value guidance has been…
A Framework for Measuring and Reporting of Climate-related Physical Risks to Built Assets
UKGBC have launched a Framework to provide organisations with a consistent methodology for measuring climate-related physical risks to built assets.
Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework
This page provides the latest information on UKGBC’s net zero carbon buildings framework, which is a series of guidance documents. This page should be referred to first, in case information has been superseded from previously published guidance.
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