The UK Green Building Council has published "Making the Case for a Code for Sustainable Buildings." It sates that the trajectory towards the government's "ambition" for all new non-domestic buildings to be zero carbon from 2019 should be aligned to such a code. Furthermore, the report calls for a Code for Sustainable Buildings to set a trajectory for a zero-carbon, sustainable built environment by 2050. The organisation says that the code should be a framework that has key targets to be achieved. "The Code should specify minimum performance criteria to achieve base compliance which would be mandatory," says the report. "And, the Code should start by focusing on easily measured aspects of a building including energy and carbon, water and waste/resource efficiency." For more information see: www.ukgbc.org
