LOW CARBON A Lead-in to the Green Deal Roger Stone OBE 01 Mar 12

2. LOW CARBON A Lead-in to the Green Deal Roger Stone OBE 01 Mar 12

3. Aim of TodayTo give: • An overview of the UK Low Carbon Strategy • Key LC Players • The factors that are driving the Construction Industry’s LC Strategy • The Construction and Built Environment response to Low Carbon (Green Deal) ‘To De-Mystify’

4. UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008 • Two key aims of the Act: • Improve carbon management and help towards a low carbon economy in the UK • Demonstrate strong UK leadership internationally- committed to taking our share of responsibility for reducing global emissions

5. UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008 • Key Provisions: • Legally binding targets: Green house gas emissions reduced by 80% by 2050, CO2 emissions reduced by 26% • Carbon budgeting system: 5 year caps on emissions • Committee on Climate Change: Monitor annual progress • Include Aviation and Shipping emissions • Have regard for the impact of domestic action on climate change • Further measures: Introduce powers and legislation on biofuels, household waste, Green Deal • Risk Assessment: Every 5 years

6. UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008 • Key Provisions: • Legally binding targets: Green house gas emissions reduced by 80% by 2050, CO2 emissions reduced by 26% • Carbon budgeting system: 5 year caps on emissions • Committee on Climate Change: Monitor annual progress • Include Aviation and Shipping emissions • Have regard for the impact of domestic action on climate change • Further measures: Introduce powers and legislation on biofuels, household waste, Green Deal • Risk Assessment: Every 5 years

7. Government’s Low Carbon Plan • Britain powered by cleaner energy • More efficient energy use in homes and businesses • Secure energy supplies and stable energy prices • Jobs and growth benefits from a move to a low carbon economy • Government departments working together on the same agenda • Overarching plan for: Energy generation, Transport and the Built Environment • Principles: • Whole government approach to climate change • Setting legal and market frameworks • Inclusive- all society to cut emissions • Prevent unnecessary costs and share burden • Acting sustainably (with balance between benefits, impacts, costs, targets) • UK to demonstrate our commitment to other countries

8. Government’s Low Carbon Plan • 3 key areas are responsible for over 80% of UK’s greenhouse gas emissions: • Generating electricity • Heating homes and businesses • Powering cars and vehicles

9. Government’s Low Carbon Plan- Outline actions to tackle 3 priority areas • CBE related: Saving energy in Homes and Communities • More efficient homes (Green Deal) • Making the move to low carbon heat • Building new homes to high environmental standards (Zero carbon) • Changing customer behaviour • Reducing emissions for businesses and industry • Cutting emissions from waste (transition to a zero waste economy)

10. Built Environment accounts for ? % of all UK Carbon emissions!

11. Built Environment accounts for % of all UK Carbon emissions! 47%

12. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

13. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU

14. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GOVT

15. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS DCLG

16. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS DCLG

17. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS DCLG

18. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS DCLG

19. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU NEW SUSTAINABLE BUILDS GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS DCLG

20. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GREEN REFURB RETROFIT GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS

21. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS GREEN COUNCIL

22. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GREEN REFURB RETROFIT GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION BOARD

23. Green Construction Board • BIS Chair – Mark Prisk MP • DECC • DEFRA • Cabinet Office • BIS • (DCLG) • Industry • (Meet 3 times a year)

24. Low Carbon Construction Action Plan • Demonstrating the benefits and opportunities of low carbon construction through leadership and cooperation across the private and public sectors  • Creating greater clarity in a complex landscape, enabling the industry to better understand the opportunities that will be available to them in the future. • Ensuring that we have the right framework of incentives and interventions to enable the market to flourish and the right levels of skills, research and innovation to enable and support growth • The delivery of the Low Carbon Construction Action Plan will be overseen by the Green Construction Board

25. UK LC Construction Action Plan –Key Themes • Implement changes to public sector procurement • New level of cooperation between Government and Industry • Leadership and Cooperation • Public Sector good practice • Overcoming complexity • Affordability and funding • Incentivisation • Capacity and Skills • Research, Innovation and Information • International opportunities

26. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GREEN REFURB RETROFIT GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION BOARD

27. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GREEN REFURB RETROFIT GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION BOARD GREEN DEAL

28. GREEN DEAL • A Collaborative Approach to the Green Deal and the Low Carbon Agenda • Range of measures, such as insulation, heating or lighting, to be installed in people’s homes and businesses at no upfront cost • Green Deal is based on the principle that some energy efficiency related changes to properties pay for themselves • 14 million of the UK's 27 million homes expected to benefit. It also predicts that it will create 100,000 jobs by 2015 • Energy saving measures recommended for properties will need to be both appropriate to the construction of the property and correctly installed • A competent property assessment and installation workforce is therefore essential • A common Code of Practice (CoP)

29. Green Deal – key principles Market driven approach with parameters set by Government Entitlement to accredited advice – with recommendations on energy efficiency improvements Agreement to package of measures that pays for itself over time – ‘Golden Rule’ Accredited products and installation Support for poorer households and certain installations through links with ECO

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32. ROGER’s RESIDENCE

33. Remote Advice Independent and impartial advice via telephone and internet Signposting service to other parts of the Green Deal e.g. assessment, installation etc. RemoteAdvice Assessment Finance Installation Repayments and Follow Up 33 33

34. Assessment All households entitled to an energy efficiency assessment as part of Green Deal Only an authorised assessor can produce Standardised, impartial assessment including: Fabric assessment Other advice, including behavioural Recommendations must be robust enough to inform quotes for approved measures/ products under the Green Deal Remote Advice Assessment Finance Installation Repayments and Follow Up 34

35. Installation Green Deal will require standards and accreditation for products and installers Installer will need to: meet certain standards to practice under the Green Deal carry the Green Deal quality mark/ logo sign off work once complete and inform GD Provider that repayments can begin Assessment Finance Installation Repayments and Follow Up Remote Advice 35

36. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GREEN REFURB RETROFIT GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION BOARD GREEN DEAL

37. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GREEN REFURB RETROFIT GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION BOARD GREEN DEAL GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

38. WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS? EU GREEN REFURB RETROFIT GOVT DECC DEFRA BIS GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION BOARD GREEN DEAL ASSET GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE CSKILLS SUMMIT

39. www.cskills.org/cutcarbon

40. Skills and Green Deal Phil Stott

41. The Green Deal Skills Alliance (GDSA) • 3 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) working together to ensure the correct skills are in place for the Green Deal: • Asset Skills – Green Deal Assessment/Advice. • ConstructionSkills – Green Deal Installers, covering insulation and building fabric. • SummitSkills – Green Deal Installers, covering environmental technologies and building engineering services.

42. Starting Point: Consumer Support • To achieve maximum impact, the emerging Green Deal brand must enjoy real consumer confidence – which in turn will trigger the market mechanisms on which Green Deal Depends. • Consumer confidence will only be gained through quality service – from Green Deal Advisors and Green Deal Installers.

43. Quality Service depends on Skills • Green Deal Advisors will need to be trained, qualified and certificated, and adhere to the Green Deal code of Conduct. • Installers and workers in environmental technologies will have the same requirements, albeit within a separate Quality Assurance, and regulatory regime based on the PAS (Publicly Available Specification).

44. Defining the Skills and Competencies required National Occupational Standards (NOS) developed by individual Sector Skills Councils, define occupation specific Green Deal skills requirements. Some existing NOS were already fit for purpose, others subject to review/amendment. All, when approved, are being used as the basis of nationally recognised qualifications on which, certification arrangements will be based.

45. Asset Skills – Energy Assessment and Advice NOS for Domestic Energy Assessors (DEAs) have been revised to reflect the needs of the new Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) from April 1st 2012 – and used as the basis for a compulsory mini qualification. Brand new NOS for Green Deal Advisors, Domestic and Non-Domestic, also completed in readiness for new qualifications for this brand new job role.

46. CITB-ConstructionSkills CITB-ConstructionSkills is the Industrial Training Board and Sector Skills Council for construction and it is: Providing a voice for industry on skills/training requirements relating to Green Deal. Supporting construction trades in Green Deal, e.g. insulation installers, building professionals and general builders. Developing bespoke apprenticeships and training solutions for specialist sectors such as solid wall insulation.

47. SummitSkills • Sector Skills Council for building services engineering. • Employer led influence on policy and standards, e.g. Microgeneration Certification Scheme. • Environmental technologies in Green Deal, e.g. Heat Pumps, Solar Thermal and Biomass. • Established National Skills Academy for Environmental Technologies in 2011.

48. GDSA – starting with a Common Competency Framework Providing knowledge and understanding of Green Deal as a whole. Everyone appreciating the “big picture” rather than thinking in individual occupation specific silos. Workers understanding one another’s roles and where they fit into the Green Deal customer/ client “journey”. Result: greater coherence in delivering Green Deal and enhanced success rates.

49. Joining up Green Deal Skills • Common Units of knowledge for use as the basis for additional training and enhancements to job specific qualifications or • Stand alone mini-qualifications in their own right.

50. Common units – examples • Understand the principles and operation of the Green Deal (or equivalent programme). • Understand the principles of customer service. • Understand how to monitor work progress. • Understand maintenance of energy efficiency measures. • Understand the effects of energy efficiency measures on conservation and heritage buildings. • Understand insulation and building treatment roles. • Understand air quality/ventilation requirements. • Understand building services engineering roles.