NEWS New alliance to champion change T
he multi-billion pound UK engineering services sector is launching a major new industry
alliance of eight organisations this month. The new alliance will be an agent for positive change and support the delivery of a safer, more productive and sustainable UK built environment. The new alliance brings together the leading trade, technology, research and professional bodies within the engineering services sector. It will lead the sector’s response to the Building Safety agenda and post- Covid Green Recovery, providing direction and championing the wider industry culture changes needed for their successful delivery. The eight organisations bring a broad range of technical, practical and commercial expertise to focus on
four strategically important themes – skills, building safety, carbon reduction and commercial issues in 2021.
The newly formed alliance consists
of: The Building Engineering and Services Association (BESA)
The Building Services Research and Industry Association (BSRIA)
The Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)
ECA - Electrical and Engineering Services
The Federation of Environmental Trade Associations (FETA)
The Lift and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA)
SELECT – the Electrical Contractors’ Association of Scotland
The Scottish and NI Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF)
CIBSE launches embodied carbon toolkit
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he Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has published a toolkit to enable engineers to calculate the embodied carbon associated with mechanical, electrical and public health systems in buildings. With the publication of Technical
Memoranda Embodied carbon in building services: A calculation methodology (TM65), CIBSE has enabled engineers to consider the carbon embodied in the building services systems to further reduce the environmental impact of a scheme.
Embodied carbon is associated with the extraction of materials, manufacture, repair, disassembly and disposal. Environmental product declarations (EPDs) are a standardised way of providing the embodied carbon and other environmental impacts of a product. But, because of the complexity of building
services products and their supply chains, very few building services equipment manufacturers offer EPDs.
TM65 is not aiming to replace EPDs, but it will allow embodied carbon estimations to be made for building services products when no EPD is available. TM65 includes: an introduction to whole life carbon and embodied carbon in building services; advice on how to use EPDs, when available; and guidance on how to calculate the embodied carbon of building services equipment when no EPDs are available.
TM65 provides a consistent approach to the way embodied carbon calculations for building services products are carried out and reported. Although the guidance is aimed primarily at engineers and consultants working in the UK and Europe the methodology developed can be applied to MEP products manufactured all over the world.
J&E Hall
www.acr-news.com
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