Key Strategies for Net Zero: Insights from Marion Baeli at Cundall’s Breakfast Briefing
Our Principal of Sustainability Transformation, Marion Baeli joined Cundall’s Breakfast Briefing – ‘Changing the Script: Net Zero Carbon Design’.
Alongside chair, Robert Marney, Associate at Cundall and panellists Neil Allard, Principal Mechanical Engineer at Cundall; Dan Higginson, Director at Greycoat; and Natalie Barber, Director at Opera; Marion explored the drivers of net zero carbon design and practical examples of delivery.
Key takeaways
Key takeaways
• We must recognise the journey we've been on and how we’ve started tackling the challenge of mitigating our environmental impact. Measuring embodied carbon was unheard of by most, only five years ago, so we’re on a good trajectory, we just need to accelerate the speed of change, whilst inspiring and bringing others along.
• Net Zero is an additional metric to track in an industry already full of complicated variables, such as viability, planning compliance, fire regulations (BSR) etc. We need to be much more collaborative in sharing intelligence and support each other in this steep learning curve.
• We should reassess the necessity to build by starting with the assessment of our existing stock and its potential to meet our needs and implement retrofit at scale. That might lend to a phased approach to manage investment levels.
• Net Zero should not be looked at in a metric funnel way but in a wide panoramic view, including the practical aspect of implementing a net zero strategy.
• Overall, a fantastic discussion, and one we need to be having more – sharing knowledge and learnings through forums like this is critical to achieving this critical net zero challenge.
• Net Zero is an additional metric to track in an industry already full of complicated variables, such as viability, planning compliance, fire regulations (BSR) etc. We need to be much more collaborative in sharing intelligence and support each other in this steep learning curve.
• We should reassess the necessity to build by starting with the assessment of our existing stock and its potential to meet our needs and implement retrofit at scale. That might lend to a phased approach to manage investment levels.
• Net Zero should not be looked at in a metric funnel way but in a wide panoramic view, including the practical aspect of implementing a net zero strategy.
• Overall, a fantastic discussion, and one we need to be having more – sharing knowledge and learnings through forums like this is critical to achieving this critical net zero challenge.