Climate Crisis

Each year of delay beyond 2020 brings the need to act faster...

Recent UN reports state that global temperatures are on track to rise by
as much as 7ºF by 2100.

Each year of delay beyond 2020 brings a need to act faster. Our collective failure to act early on climate change means we must now deliver deep cuts to emissions.

​The construction industry has a huge responsibility in the collective fight against climate change.

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​Construction

​Industry

​​​​​Buildings are currently responsible for 40% of global CO2 emisions anually

Over two thirds of these emissions
relate to the energy used
to heat and cool buildings (27%).

​The other third (13%) relates to
the embodied carbon associated
with extraction, manufacturing,
transporting, installing, maintaining
and disposing of construction
materials and products.

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We can't go on​

like this!

Construction must be delivered in a more forward-thinking way

Governments, policy-makers and architects
have been hesitant to adopt sustainable
principles that will forge a brighter
future for generations to come.

A 2050 target for carbon neutral
homes means that we’ll be building
homes which damage the environment
and leave people at risk of fuel
poverty for decades to come, and
that simply can’t be the case.

​We can, and must act now!

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