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.
Engaging the Supply Chain: A Practical Guide to Delivering Sustainability Outcomes
This guide is a practical starting point for anyone wishing to work with the supply chain to deliver positive transformational sustainability outcomes in the built environment.
Delivering Net Zero: Practical Actions for Optimising Energy Use
This report supports greater reductions in the energy use and associated carbon emissions of operational non-domestic buildings, outlining key steps for success and lists practical actions, which will be applicable to many buildings.
Building the Case for Net Zero: Retrofitting Retail and Logistics Buildings
This report supports the retail and logistics sectors to take action to combat their energy and carbon impacts.
Framework for a Nature-Positive Built Environment
UKGBC have launched a Framework to provide organisations with a consistent methodology for measuring climate-related physical risks to built assets.
Materials Passports
These practical and technical guides give an overview of Materials Passports and their crucial role in promoting circularity and reuse in the built environment.
Retrofit Facilitation Service Toolkit
A step-by-step toolkit for Local Authorities to set up and run effective ‘one stop shop’ Retrofit Facilitation Services.
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
This 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.
