Madrid, Spain
As net zero carbon becomes a guiding principle across all new buildings, creating housing stock that meets the requirements of residents, regulators and developers is a challenge, especially with so many design and construction issues yet to be solved or approaches to be standardised.
The built environment is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, nevertheless, new homes must be built. The government wants 300,000 homes built each year to meet demand but construction is falling far short of this goal.
Current guidance
As yet, there are very few completed net zero carbon housing developments of significant commercial value and scale to use as standard bearers and templates for future projects. Existing low or zero carbon developments tend to be one-off experiments, such as small projects built to Passivhaus standards.
The future
There is an obvious need for accurate, reliable data to enable standardisation of net zero – with the goal being that the carbon value of each element of design, construction, operation and decommissioning can be easily quantified.
As net zero carbon becomes a guiding principle across all new buildings, creating housing stock that meets the requirements of residents, regulators and developers is a challenge, especially with so many design and construction issues yet to be solved or approaches to be standardised.
The built environment is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, nevertheless, new homes must be built. The government wants 300,000 homes built each year to meet demand but construction is falling far short of this goal.
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