Construction Products sets up initiative to reduce carbon emissions
Low- and zero-carbon buildings have assumed a high profile at the Construction Products Association with the launch of a low- and zero-carbon buildings technology group. The aim of the group is to encourage the development of new technologies in a quest to deliver more sustainable construction. Speaking at the association’s Autumn lunch recently, its president John Colley outlined the crucial role the construction-products industry has in helping the Government address the challenge of climate change and stressed that manufacturers and suppliers were increasingly part of the solution to deliver sustainable construction. He said that the industry was looking forward to a positive response from Government to the Neville Simms report on sustainable procurement and stressed the need to procure on the basis of whole-life value and to move away from a culture of lowest initial cost. he was encouraged by the number of private-sector clients that are already taking sustainability very seriously and imposing new and more demanding requirements on their supply chains. Jonathon Porritt, programme director of Forum for the Future and chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, was guest speaker at the lunch. He said, ‘I am delighted that the Construction Products Association is setting up a new low- and zero-carbon buildings technology group. As the Stern Review confirms so powerfully, climate change is a challenge that has to be addressed with great urgency, and clear, consistent policy interventions from Government. The leadership of industry bodies like the Construction Products Association should encourage Government to be more ambitious in its own climate-change programme.’
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