Green Deal 'to impact sustainable office design'

Office design news from Morgan Lovell

Published on 31-01-2011

The coalition government's Green Deal agenda is set to have a significant impact on sustainable office design in the UK, it has been claimed.

Speaking at the Retrofit Salford 2011 event on January 27th, Dr Will Swan from the Centre for the Built Environment at the University of Salford said small changes can have as great an impact on improving green practices as big issues like installing new heating systems and this is a key tenet of the government's Green Deal.

He commented: "The landscape is shifting - the green deal is emerging, the renewable heat incentive will be coming in shortly, there will be a new energy company obligation - and actually these things are really important."

According to Paul King, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, the launch of a new task group to boost the uptake and awareness of sustainability for non-domestic property across the UK will help to reduce the sector's present carbon production of 17 per cent of total output for the country each year.

Posted by Ian Johnson