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Adaptation for Climate Resilience: Non-Domestic Buildings

This guide builds upon stage three of the four-stage model presented in the UK Climate Resilience Roadmap: prepare and adapt. It explores practical adaptation measures that can be applied to non-domestic buildings now.

Climate Change Adaptation Guidance

Score: 73.45893904321

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.

Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 50.830783179012

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.

Climate Change Mitigation Resource Use Guidance

Score: 47.789726080247

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.

Climate Change Mitigation Retrofit Guidance

Score: 46.540810185185

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.

Nature Guidance

Score: 35

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.

Resource Use Guidance

Score: 34

Retrofit Facilitation Service Toolkit

A step-by-step toolkit for Local Authorities to set up and run effective ‘one stop shop’ Retrofit Facilitation Services.

National and Regional Collaboration Retrofit Guidance

Score: 33

Embodied Carbon: Scope 3 Measurement and Reporting

Understand how to streamline your Scope 3 and embodied carbon measuring and reporting.

Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 32

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.

Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 31

Biodiversity Net Gain Checklists

UKGBC’s Biodiversity Net Gain Checklists take you through more than 30 detailed steps, outlining what…

Nature Guidance

Score: 30

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.

Nature Guidance

Score: 29

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.

Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 28

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.

Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 27

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.

Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 26

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.

Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 25

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…

Health, Wellbeing and Social Value Guidance

Score: 24

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.

Climate Change Adaptation Nature Guidance

Score: 23

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.

Climate Change Mitigation Guidance

Score: 22

BUILD UPON Framework: Capturing the Benefits of Building Renovation

UKGBC has worked alongside WorldGBC, BPIE, Climate Alliance, 7 European Green Building Councils and over 30 local authorities across Europe to develop the BUILD UPON Framework. This Framework helps cities and local authorities measure the broad benefits of building renovation in a simple and consistent manner.

Climate Change Mitigation Health, Wellbeing and Social Value Guidance

Score: 21

Commercial Playbook

The Commercial Playbook includes guidlines to help Local Authorities drive up the sustainability of new commercial buildings.

Climate Change Mitigation National and Regional Collaboration Guidance

Score: 20

Investing in a Greener Greater Manchester: A nature-based solutions investment guide for local authorities

This guide outlines a range of innovative investment and management opportunities for local authorities, demonstrating the benefits and the feasibility of large scale, public-sector-led nature-based solutions delivery.

Climate Change Mitigation National and Regional Collaboration Guidance