Workplace properties 'need to reduce carbon emissions'
Date posted: 16 Jul 2009
Owners of commercial workplace properties such as offices and factories may have to introduce measures to be become more carbon efficient under new government plans.
Ministers have this week launched the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, which outlines a number of areas that need to be developed in order to significantly reduce the country's environmental impact.
Owners of commercial workplace properties such as offices and factories may have to introduce measures to be become more carbon efficient under new government plans.
Ministers have this week launched the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, which outlines a number of areas that need to be developed in order to significantly reduce the country's environmental impact.
Under the proposals, both domestic properties and workplaces may have to comply with a number of environmental standards in order to lower carbon emissions by 34 per cent by 2020 when compared to 1990 levels.
Around ten per cent of annual emission cuts are expected to come from greater efficiency in both public and private sector workplaces.
Factories, offices, schools and hospitals will all be required to reduce their emissions to nearly zero by the year 2050.
Small and medium-sized businesses are expected to receive guidance later this year about how they can introduce measures to improve the carbon efficiency of their properties.
The government recently launched its Code for Sustainable Homes, which rates how well new property developments incorporate environmental techniques.
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