The National Federation of Builders’ (NFB) Major Contractors Group (MCG) has published a new decarbonisation handbook to help main contractors achieve net zero carbon.
‘Transforming Construction: Delivering a Low Carbon Future’, launched by Mark Wakeford, chair of the MCG, contains practical actions that main contractors can adopt and implement in their own businesses.
The new handbook, that builds on the MCG’s own report, ‘Transforming Construction for a Low Carbon Future’, published in November 2019, offers a clear practical route map to help deliver this low carbon future.
It presents staged actions and measures for contractors to adopt and implement to work towards the UK’s goal of net zero, while being affordable and fitting with each business’ vision. The report covers multiple areas where changes can be made to help decarbonise. These include:
- Developing teams to lead change
- Reducing the carbon footprint of staff and corporate
- Recording, accounting and reducing emissions associated with construction projects
- Reducing embodied carbon
- Reducing carbon emissions through building performance
- Reducing carbon through procurement.
Speaking about the handbook, Mark said: “With our new handbook, we set to arm our colleagues with the tools they need to start or accelerate their decarbonisation journey. To deliver our country’s net zero ambitions, we must help each other to do so.
“This handbook is designed to do just that. It focuses on steps that we ultimately all need to take, but does so in a way that should allow any business, at whatever stage of their decarbonisation journey, to be able to apply.”
