The homebuilding community is on a rapid journey to reduce the “Whole Life Carbon” of new homes. 

From 2025, the Future Homes Standard will help reduce the “in use” carbon emissions by at least 75%. With the switch to electric and high standards of fabric efficiency it will also be a “zero carbon ready” standard. 

At the same time, we need to reduce the carbon emissions embodied in products, and from the construction and maintenance of buildings. 

However, we currently lack the information needed to reduce embodied carbon quickly, while taking good decisions about how to reduce carbon emissions in the round and building better and safer homes for our customers. 

The 2023-2025 embodied and whole life carbon implementation plan will therefore bring homebuilders, manufacturers, expert and government organisations together to: 

• develop the tools homebuilders need to better understand and consistently/accurately measure embodied and whole life carbon 
• work with manufacturers to provide clear information on their products and what carbon reductions they will achieve in the future 
• develop benchmarks for the different types of homes we build 

This will help us get ready as government policy and financial requirements apply. 

View the report here 

Further information on the project can be found here