propertytalk Live! - Construction industry faces huge low carbon challenge

propertytalk Live! - Construction industry faces huge low carbon challenge

The construction industry faces the largest change management programme since Victorian times if it is to meet the low carbon agenda, according to a new industry report.

The Innovation and Growth Team (IGT), which is drawn from the construction industry, was tasked by the government to consider how the construction sector could meet the low carbon agenda.

The report said the construction industry had engaged positively with the sustainability issue with many examples of cutting-edge practice.

But the Climate Change Act calls for the net UK carbon account in 2050 to at least 80% lower than the 1990 baseline, which will require a ‘quantum change’ in the industry’s response to this challenge, says the document.