Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA) offers a promising solution. Unlike traditional approaches that focus solely on energy use during a building's operation, WLCA considers the entire lifecycle: from the raw materials used in construction to the emissions generated during operation, maintenance, and even demolition. It provides a full picture view of a building's carbon footprint, and with that, a powerful opportunity to reduce it.

The World Green Building Council’s has set out it’s ambitious ‘Whole Life Carbon Vison’ mission to reduce embodied emissions by 40% by 2030, and to achieve net zero embodied carbon and operational carbon in all buildings by 2050. Whole Life Cycle Assessment will be integral to hitting these targets, so lets look at how the process works

Following on from the release of the London Plan last year, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has now released its Whole Life-Cycle (WLC) Assessments Guidance, which originally came out for consultation back in 2020. Learn more here…

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