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But in terms of the pressing need to make improvements at scale on carbon emissions, what really needs to happen is for the new Government to bring in tough regulation to require embodied carbon to be measured and restricted on a variety of projects. Currently this is the elephant in the room in terms of standards, with no mention in the upcoming Future Homes Standard, and a hopeful Part Z of the Building Regulations currently AWOL somewhere in Parliament.
Labour has rolled back its initial £28bn carbon reduction plans to something a lot cheaper and moderate to appease struggling voters. This is deeply disappointing, but understandable given the bloodshed of its last Election results, plus the increased fi nancial turmoil of former ‘blue wall’ voters. More unnecessary was Labour’s pronouncement in favour of retaining North Sea oil and gas for “decades to come,” which must strike fear into the hearts of heat pump manufacturers.
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Labour has steered away from talk of “free insulation” campaigns such as that proposed by the Lib Dems (who arguably have the leeway to put out such hard-to-deliver slogans, as they are unlikely to have to enact them.) But the near-total absence of statements directly linking built environment and climate goals from Labour is frankly, somewhat feeble. One hopes that RIBA is talking directly to the party about what is needed, and needed now.
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adly, many of the messages in RIBA’s ‘manifesto’ for the next Government are statements which, not to undermine their importance, have been heard many times before. However, such seemingly self-evident requirements such as “further and faster action” on climate change, solving the housing crisis, and “ensuring that people are safe in their homes” probably require that slightly numbing repetition, partly because of the fact they do not seem to have been heard adequately by the Government.
RIBA also calls for a national retrofi t strategy, post-occupancy evaluation on publicly-funded buildings, and properly funded planning departments. All very laudable, all familiar, apart from perhaps the need for planning departments to “utilise the skills of architects,” now there’s an idea!
The call for safer housing has of course been addressed to some extent by this Government, with its hand forced to intervene by Grenfell to produce some top-down structure for once, in the form of the Building Safety Act. However, while professional competencies now have a workable framework in projects, the Building Regulations themselves have not been ‘overhauled.’ RIBA rightly says more examination of Part B is needed, and continues its call for second staircases in buildings over 18 metres, and sprinklers where there are vulnerable residents.
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