Environmental Property Code

Posted on February 27, 2008 by fairsnape

From the IPD website:

IPD last night launched a ground-breaking new environmental measurement standard … a much needed global framework for measuring the environmental performance of corporate buildings.

With governments around the world setting ambitious targets for reducing environmental impacts such as carbon emissions, it is vital that organisations take effective action to address the impacts of their occupied buildings. This is where the Code comes in! To find out more and to download your free copy of the Environment Code, click here www.ipd.com/environmentcode

What is the 4FM view of this?  Already there is disent in the industry … EPC’s are a turnoff….

More on this later ………

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2 Responses

  1. fairsnape, on February 27th, 2008 at 2:44 pm Said:

    Having scanned the pdf file, the EPC paper raises a number of questions:

    I question how these will address the social enterprise / cbfm agenda ? the focus is (mainly) on hard environmental issues, with an inclusion of a few soft measures?

    The data is in M2 – not within the emerging M3 space measurement for heating and comfort factors.

    Will this lead to improved benchmarking ? (not sure)

    The worked example doesn’t include the more difficult but community important issues such as carbon emissions through travel,which can be huge for an ill sited large HQ, or indeed any of the non hard measures.

    What counts is what cannot be counted – is there something important missing here – future more in-depth reading will reveal it maybe.

    I would have liked to have seen a carbon footprint output for a building or even an ecological footprint (better) The measures are very ‘local’ to the ‘building’ not rippling out too far to the community of addressing other eco-social issues – as demonstrated by the comparison between the GRI reporting table and these EPC’s

    Is this a step in the right direction and a real contribution ???? How does it tie in with a BREEAM or as its a global code – LEED Platinum schemes for buildings in use?

  2. Listlessly, on June 19th, 2008 at 10:53 am Said:

    Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

    cheers, Listlessly.

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