The Whole life Carbon Assessment predicts the total emissions of a building from its design, to construction, to operations, to end of life & possible second life. It is broken up into modules, to help calculate each of these aspects from the best available data. Here we explore Module ‘B’…

Cercula welcomes the news that the WLCA professional statement from 2017 has been updated with further guidance and consultation from the industry. There has been a tremendous amount of work that has gone into updating the document from some of the leading experts in the sector. …

Cercula has joined Wates as part of their start-up engagement initiative, the Wates Innovation Network (WIN). After passing through the pitch competition and the Technical Advisory Panel judging process, Cercula has succeeded in joining the final selected start-ups that will be working with Wates for more sustainable building. Established in…

The Conservative and Unionist Party leadership contest has been whittled down to two candidates who will now face the Tory party membership, with one of them becoming Prime Minister by September 5th 2022. …

A recent tussle between the Greater London Authority (GLA) and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) over whether or not the Edwardian Marks & Spencer’s building on oxford street should be demolished to make way for an uber-modern development has brought retrofitting, whole-life-carbon assessments, demolition and the…

Earlier this month (April 2022), the Government published the new British Energy Security Strategy. This comes in light of soaring energy prices, the war in Ukraine and the associated threat to European energy supply. …

The government has just published its ‘British Energy Security Strategy’, following an alarming IPCC report publication, and growing concerns about the energy supply chain from Russia. The strategy aims to make Britain’s energy infrastructure and supply more domestic, and lower carbon emissions. The plan sets goals for 95% of British…

The IPCC just published the final third of a 3-part Comprehensive Review of Climate Science. The report echoes the urgency of the previous two reports, highlighting the slow response to the crisis so far. …

The past few weeks have seen some huge shifts in construction carbon policy. These changes could be landmark in our route to decarbonising the built environment. We have compiled summaries of three important recent stories that we believe you should know about. Duncan Baker MP has pulled his Carbon Emissions…