1

Design for Performance is reaching out to industry stakeholders

The Design for Performance initiative led by BIP.Verco has featured in a couple of industry engagement events this month. First on 6th March at the annual EcoBuild show at the Excel in London Docklands, there was a seminar entitled Design for Performance - Securing Commercial Buildings. The session was chaired by Sarah Ratcliffe, Programme Director at the BBP, and the panellists were Robert Cohen, Technical Director, BIP.Verco, Abigail Dean, Head of Sustainability at TH Real Estate, Duncan Price, Director - Sustainability, Buro Happold and Andy Stanton, Infrastructure and Sustainability Manager, Transport for London. The seminar underlined the benefits of commercial office buildings which perform as intended: as well as meeting environmental objectives, these buildings can be more attractive to tenants who seek better working environments for their employees. Evidence from Australia shows that these buildings have lower voids, can charge rent premiums and secure higher financial returns for their developers and investors. Read more

1

Deep renovations with ALDREN aim to increase the value of commercial buildings across the EU

BIP.Verco is a partner in the ALliance for Deep RENovation (ALDREN) a 30 month Horizon 2020 project which started in November 2017. The purpose of ALDREN is to establish the business case for deep renovation. It is thereby intended to encourage investment and accelerate the movement towards a nearly zero energy non-residential building stock across the EU, as targeted by 2050 to meet Paris Agreement commitments. The project is co-ordinated by the Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment (CSTB) in France, with seven expert partners from around Europe. Read more

1

Practising what we preach: BIP.Verco CSR update, how did we do in 2017?

BIP.Verco is a mission based organisation and carbon reduction is at the heart of our business. In 2012 we set ourselves the ambitious challenge of significantly enabling 1MtCO2 of annual emissions reductions by the end of 2015 for delivery by 2025. This is the equivalent of 1% of the UK’s required reductions to meet the fourth carbon budget! Read more

1

A summary of the Committee on Climate Change's response to the Government’s Clean Growth Strategy

Yesterday, the Committee on Climate Change published their response to the government’s Clean Growth Strategy. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is the independent watchdog on the government’s climate change policy. The CCC is responsible for ensuring that the government sets measures which will deliver on our legally binding commitment to an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Read more

1

First ICP Europe Technical Forum for Industry

The ICP Europe Technical Team launched its expansion into three new sectors – industry, district energy and street lighting - with the first Technical Forum for Industry, on 14 September 2017. BIP.Verco is UK advocate for the Investor Confidence Project (ICP) Europe, and is leading the technical development of the ICP tools across Europe. Read more

1

Crystal ball gazing with the National Grid

Earlier this month, the BIP.Verco team discussed the National Grid’s latest Future Energy Scenarios (FES) report[1]. Published annually, the report presents a range of potential energy futures for the UK, predicting how energy will be supplied and used out to 2050. This short piece presents some of our thoughts. Read more

1

BIP.Verco's Manifesto Policy Map

With the majority of the main political parties publishing their 2017 manifestos in recent days, BIP.Verco have reviewed the potential implications for the UK’s energy, carbon and waste policy under each party, as well as the level of compliance of each commitment with the recommendations of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Read more

1

Further insights from BIP.Verco-led Building Energy Efficiency Survey

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published the Building Energy Efficiency Survey (BEES) 2014-15 in November 2016 which sets out to improve and update the evidence of how energy is used, and to provide an assessment of the abatement opportunities for all non-domestic premises across England and Wales. Read more