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FROM THE EDITOR


James Parker T


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HOUSEBUILDER & DEVELOPER


AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2025


here’s a very interesting piece by Stephen Callow of MPA Masonry on a recent Future Homes Hub report in this issue, which is worth turning to page 65 to


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The comprehensive report is titled ‘Embodied and Whole Life Carbon of Future Homes Standard Options.’ It compares the carbon impact on dwellings (both up- front and operational) of the two most popular structural methods of constructing homes. Callow, representing the masonry lobby (who you’d normally expect to come out guns blazing against timber), says it is “very fair in its refl ection of the data studied, with some reassuring and positive news for the industry as a whole.” Comparisons on current timber vs. masonry options on embodied and whole carbon, he says, give “a broadly similar outcome.” This means “there is no silver bullet when it comes to reducing new homes’ embodied carbon.” Part Z is still a going concern, soon to be resuscitated in the form of a proposed Government amendment to a forthcoming Building Regulations White Paper. It homes in on mandating reporting (at least) of embodied carbon in projects.


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According to an architect source, the plan “is being revived, and there is a meeting over the next few weeks to discuss.” While the Government has an awful lot on its plate, I would very much like to see this particular plan come to fruition – the missing piece of the carbon jigsaw. The Planning & Infrastructure Bill, currently trundling its way through the Lords, contains solid provisions for protecting nature and Environmental Development Plans, but arguably not a lot on embodied carbon. Something like the proposed lan , i.e. specifi c legislation, is needed to truly make the industry sit up and take notice. In the meantime, as advocated by Callow, the ‘measure embodied carbon fi rst, regulate later approach is surely a pragmatic one. Don’t wait for the regulatory stick to appear, futureproof schemes and cut carbon by measuring embodied carbon now; or as much as is humanly possible! Whether your choice is masonry or timber (and there are good arguments for both), working with suppliers to count the cost of carbon embodied in products as well as post- construction has to be the way forward.


James Parker


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