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 Advancing Net Zero Guidance

Embodied carbon is being increasingly factored into how we design, build, maintain, and treat the end-of-life of our built assets. Embodied carbon also makes up 20% of the UK’s built environments’ carbon emissions so it is important we are able to accurately understand the carbon impact of the building materials and design choices made across an asset’s lifetime.

To increase the accuracy of embodied carbon assessments this report provides guidance on the embodied carbon modelling and reporting processes to enable greater transparency and clarity. This will enable a better understanding of the embodied carbon of our built assets and hopefully lead to a more informed decision process on the carbon impact.

The guidance includes key chapters on:

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How to understand and use Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).

2

Understanding default assumptions within the RICS Whole Life Carbon Assessment Professional Standard

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How to establish a Quality Assurance process for embodied carbon assessments

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Guidance on how embodied carbon assessments can be expected to develop and change across RIBA Stages.

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Guidance on how to write a high-quality embodied carbon assessment report.

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Download the main report and its supporting documents here.

Embodied Carbon Guidance

Download our most recent guidance on Embodied Carbon modelling & reporting.
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Quality Assurance Tables

To provide a project overview of the embodied carbon process. What needs to be done when and how best to manage it
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Embodied Carbon Assessments & RIBA Stages

This spreadsheet sets out how a project team might approach embodied carbon assessment at each RIBA Stage.
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As-built Benchmarking Concept

This document has been developed as a proof-of-concept.
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