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Towards a Standard for Carbon Accounting: a view from CIBSE Hywel Davies CIBSE Technical Director and Stuart Macpherson Irons Foulner Consulting Engineers

Current Standards Activity BSI, CEN and ISO are working on standards related to carbon emissions from buildings and their component materials and systems BS PAS 2050 – measurement of embodied greenhouse gases in products and services CEN - Sustainability of construction works CEN – Strategic energy management forum ISO – sustainable construction standards

Carbon counting standards 4 strands of standardisation (at least) ISO well advanced on a general framework for environmental impact measures CEN developing standards in response to a mandate – possible standstill on national efforts BSI developing the PAS on carbon

PAS 2050 Being developed jointly by Carbon Trust, Defra and BSI Aims to “develop an agreed method for measuring embodied GHG emissions which can be applied across a wide range of product and service categories …to enable companies to measure the GHG related impacts of their products and reduce them.” Carbon and GHG specific

Directives The EPBD Scottish Building Standards Energy Assessors in Scotland

Carbon Accounting? Its not just about counting carbon, but controlling it Thank you for listening – Any questions?

What are we really trying to standardise? Carbon impacts or Environmental impacts? Products? Systems? Whole buildings? Cradle to gate, or cradle to grave? Life cycle? When does life begin and end? Impact of a building? Of what goes on in it? Of how people get to it (to work on it or in it)

Comparing corporate performance on climate change – what metrics? Dr. Craig Mackenzie Director, Carbon Benchmarking Project University of Edinburgh Business School

The scope for low cost reductions Source: Vattenfal

Breakdown of the Tesco footprint Add note on fridge energy? Refrigeration Tesco CSR Report 2007

Direct CO2e emissions No Data

Relative carbon intensity? NB: this slide does not give an accurate comparison of performance No Data

Meaningful comparison? NB: this slide does not give an accurate comparison of performance Food processing business Food non-food split Food- non-food split Food non-food split Use of biodiesel Green tariff electricity Green tariff electricity Data estimated Data incomplete No Data

An alternative strategy Add note on fridge energy? Refrigeration Tesco CSR Report 2007 % f-gas leakage pa KWh/linear meter of refrigeration Diesel litres/pallet delivered Average store energy rating % electricity from renewables weighted for additionality

Wider implications Benchmarking needs: Better data quality Sharper standards Segmental carbon reporting Identification and reporting on normalisation factors Avoiding carbon reductionism Activity-specific metrics Activity/sector-specific reporting standards Collaborative sector/activity projects to define the above

Westminster carbon counting conference, ICE, 24 January 2008 JOINING THINGS UP FOR BUILDINGS Bill Bordass the Usable Buildings Trust www.usablebuildings.co.uk

We need to save real carbon, not virtual carbon

The Credibility Gap for a green building award winner

Saving energy and CO 2 in a hurry, using the multiplier effect Reduced demands standards, passive measures x 0.5? 50 % Increased efficiency better technology, lower resistances x 0.5? 25 % Waste avoidance better control, management, behaviour? Less 20%? (it could easily be more) 20 % Low-carbon energy supplies on and off-site Halve the carbon content of the supplies? 10% To get rapid and cost-effective change, we must press ALL the buttons NOT, for example relying on a business-as-usual fix with renewables: they won’t work alone!

Use renewable supplies AND make buildings efficient in use

Making Performance Visible with building energy certificates Ambitions of Europrosper research project 2000-04: Display energy certs based on actual energy use. Achieved Transparency between expectations and outcomes. Incomplete Multiple performance indicators Incomplete We now need voluntary supporting measures

Passing on carbon + energy BPF Landlord’s statement Improves transparency Includes multiple performance indicators Allows individual tenants to add the energy they purchase directly and prepare Display Energy Certificates on same basis as whole buildings. Avoids double handling if it allows the transfer of carbon from landlord to tenant for the purpose of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. Interest being shown by other sectors (business centres, retail, industrial

Passing on carbon + energy BPF Landlord’s statement

Drilling down further to assign realistic priorities

Drilling down even further: actual versus predicted for lighting

Carbon Counting for Neighbourhoods and Cities Dr Rajat Gupta Department of Architecture [email_address] Westminster Carbon Counting Conference 24 January 2008, London

Core methodologies used in DECoRuM Underlying physically-based energy models: BREDEM –12 linked to SAP 2001. Cost-benefit analysis approach

Framework for baseline predictions DECoRuM baseline energy model estimates energy consumption and CO 2 emissions of individual dwellings as the basic component for calculation, and then aggregates these to an urban scale.

Oxford case study: DECoRuM baseline energy & CO 2 model © Rajat Gupta, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK.

In conclusion Top down approaches Are they complementary to each other? What do we need to adopt for cities to be able to estimate baseline emissions, predict potential emission reductions, and take action? Bottom-up models

Highest energy users on the planet

10 20 30 40 50 2000 2010 2020 2030 2040 2050 1990 Carbon dioxide emissions (MtCO 2 ) Draft London Plan targets 15% 20% 25% 30% 60% Today (+0.7 ° C already) Stern indicates the London Plan targets will not be sufficient 60% 90% New evidence? 2025

London: Where emissions come from: 21% 7% Emissions from London Domestic Commercial (inc. public sector) Industrial Ground-based Transport

Responsibility for Delivering 30% CO2 Cuts by 2025 Source: LECI; GLA analysis GLA family (~10%) City Boroughs (~10%) National government (~30%) Private sector (~40%) Target reduction (30% vs. 1990) Million tonnes of CO 2 per annum Business as usual scenario Individuals (~10%)

Solar Cities: 2 nd International Conference 2006

Principles of carbon counting for buildings in use THE KEY STEPS The five key steps in counting the impact on the outside world are: 1 Define the boundary of the premises. Boundaries should be where they make practical sense in terms of where the energy can be counted (e.g. the area fed by the meters) and how the area is run (a tenancy, a building, a site; or even a district or a city). One may look at more than one boundary, e.g. for a university the campus, specific buildings, and individual departments; and for a rented building the whole building, and each tenancy. Measure the flows of each energy supply across the defined boundary. Normally this will be annual totals by fuel, though details of load profiles could sometimes be included. Define carbon dioxide factors for each energy supply, as discussed below Multiply each energy flow by the appropriate carbon dioxide factor, to get the emissions associated with each fuel 5 Add them up. to get the annual total of CO2 emissions .

Carbon Dioxide Emissions will include: (Source:Robert Cohen) Probably the most ‘correct’ approach is to split the scores into four categories: - Direct and measurable - Indirect, pro-rated on the bases of purchases - Indirect, not pro-rated and attributed to the industrial sectors - Fixed infrastructure, not pro-rated and attributable to government policy . Peter Harper, Centre for Alternative technology DIRECT EMISSIONS 34% HOUSE ENERGY 19.5% TRANSPORT ENERGY 14.5% INDIRECT PRO RATA EMISSONS 51% INDIRECT INFRASTRUCTURAL EMISSONS 15%

Making Business Sense of Climate Change www.thecarbontrust.co.uk

DECARBONISING BUILDINGS CASE STUDY: The Sports Hall The proposed sports halls is: - 36 x 40mx 7m high, - floor area of around 1440m2 . - The currently preferred design includes: - 15 Sprung Sports Floor - Lighting should be Multi-Corso set between the badminton courts - Heating system is a Continuous Black Tube radiant heating system. - 160m2 sports storage equipment - Full height glazed screen between corridor and sports hall - Range of fixed equipment including basket ball goals, netball & badminton posts - Side walls to be green or blue to meet badminton requirements Top 3m of the 3 external walls are designed to include Kalwall Transluscent cladding, an insulating, diffuse, light transmitting system that eliminates glare hot spots and shadows.

Recommendations: High the thermal efficiency of the structure of the sports hall through the use of good levels of insulation in north, south and east walls, elimination of air-infiltration through the building envelope and robust construction. Optimised use of natural lighting in the sports hall so reducing the need for high levels of artificial lighting . Naturally ventilated sports hall, eliminating the need for mechanical cooling and provision of fresh air. Replacement of the proposed high level, high temperature, gas fired, air blown heating system with an under-floor, low temperature heating system powered at least in part by a ground source heat pump system and a wind turbine situated in the school grounds. Install a roof mounted solar hot water system to provide part of the high temperature water supply needed for the changing room facilities.

The what works palette of RENs Source: njsolar

Wind – It works and is available on site House height 8m 400W turbine Electricity provision: 20% of a household Height: 2m Cost: £1500-2000 6kW turbine Electricity provision: 3.5 houses or 20% of a primary school Height: 9m Cost: £15-18k 220kW turbine Electricity provision: 85 houses or 5 primary schools Height: 36m Cost: £550-700k 1.5MW turbine Electricity provision: 1200 houses or 75 primary schools Height: 65m Cost: £1-1.5 million

RENEWABLE ENERGY GRANTS: The Low Carbon Buildings Programme - Stream 2B. ( www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk/ ). Solar photovoltaics 50% Biomass 35% Ground source heat pumps 35% Wind turbines 30% Solar thermal 30%

CALCULATING THE COST BENEFITS OF THE SAVINGS: Recommendation 3: Naturally ventilate the sports hall and eliminate the need for mechanical cooling and provision of fresh air. Removal of central ventilation plant and fans. Electricity cost savings 34 kWh/m2/a saved by removal of mechanical ventilation system. = 1440 x 34 = 48960 kWh/a CO2 savings 21.053 tonnes annum cost savings 1440 x 34 x 5.5 = £2693 annum Cost of measure removes c. -£15,000 from plant cost and adds the same for the opening Kalwal windows at the upper level. Payback 0 years Recommendation 4: Under floor heating with GSHP power in part with a wind turbine Replace all air blown sports hall heating system with under-floor heating from a ground source heat pump with wind turbine giving zero energy heating for the hall. Heating gas saved 307 kWh/m2/a = 1440 x 307 = 442080 kWh/a CO2 savings 83.995 tonnes annum cost savings 442080 x 2.7 = £11,936 annum Cost of measure £100,000 Payback 8.38years

Key recomendations: 142,000 644,180 134 20,578 TOTAL 35.53 35,000 36,500 6.9 985 Solar hot water systems 3.58 100,000 442,080 84 11,936 Under floor heating with GSHP and wind turbine - 0 48,960 21 2,693 Natural ventilation of the sports hall 0.56 2,000 64,800 12.3 3,564 Optimisation of the natural day lighting of the hall 3.57 5,000 51,840 9.9 1,400 high thermal efficiency of sports hall £ kWh tonnes £ (years) Energy Savings CO2 Savings Financial Savings Payback period Estimated Cost of Measure Estimated Annual Savings Recommendations and Key Actions

Sue Roaf Professor of Architectural Engineering Heriot Watt University Edinburgh [email_address]

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