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Stuart Nicholson, Managing Director of Marley, discusses how new manufacturing  


Local authorities nationwide are facing unrelenting pressure to ensure their construction projects generate as little carbon as possible, with regulation tightening through frameworks such as the Future Homes Standard which set out detailed, challenging carbon performance targets.


Meanwhile, there is a growing


expectation that councils should perform Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCAs) for their construction projects. In some parts of the UK, local policies mandate the upfront supply of carbon disclosures for major redevelopment and construction schemes –


and the indications are that this will be enshrined in law sooner rather than later. This goes in tandem with an intensifying focus on Scope 3 emissions. These relate to the quantity of embodied carbon contained in construction materials themselves, which generally


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