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LOW CARBON
A Lead-in to the Green Deal
Roger Stone OBE
01 Mar 12
Aim of Today
To 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’
UK Government
Climate 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
UK Government
Climate 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
UK Government
Climate 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
Government’s Low Carbon Plan
• Britain powered by cleaner energy
• More efficient energy use in homes and businesses
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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
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
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)
Built Environment accounts for ? % of all UK Carbon
emissions!
Built Environment accounts for % of all UK Carbon
emissions!
47%
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GOVT
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GOVT
DECC
DCLG
DEFRA
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GOVT
DECC
DCLG
DEFRA
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GOVT
DECC
DCLG
DEFRA
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GOVT
DECC
DCLG
DEFRA
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
NEW
SUSTAINABLE
BUILDS
GOVT
DECC
DCLG
DEFRA
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GREEN REFURB
RETROFIT
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GREEN REFURB
RETROFIT
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
GREEN
CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
Green Construction Board
BIS Chair – Mark Prisk MP
DECC
DEFRA
Cabinet Office
BIS
(DCLG)
Industry
(Meet 3 times a year)
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
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
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GREEN REFURB
RETROFIT
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
GREEN
CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GREEN REFURB
RETROFIT
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
GREEN DEAL
GREEN
CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
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)
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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ROGER’s
RESIDENCE
Remote Advice
Remote
Advice
Assessment
Finance
Installation
Repayments
and Follow
Up
Independent and impartial advice via telephone and internet
Signposting service to other parts of the Green Deal e.g. assessment, installation
etc.
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Assessment
Remote
Advice
Assessment
Finance
Installation
Repayments
and Follow
Up
All households entitled to an energy efficiency assessment as part
of Green Deal
Only an authorised assessor can produce
Standardised, impartial assessment including:
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Fabric assessment
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Other advice, including behavioural
Recommendations must be robust enough to inform quotes for
approved measures/ products under the Green Deal
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Installation
Remote
Advice
Assessment
Finance
Installation
Repayments
and Follow
Up
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
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WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GREEN REFURB
RETROFIT
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
GREEN DEAL
GREEN
CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GREEN REFURB
RETROFIT
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
GREEN DEAL
GREEN DEAL
STRATEGIC
ALLIANCE
GREEN
CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?
EU
GREEN REFURB
RETROFIT
GOVT
DECC
DEFRA
BIS
GREEN COUNCIL
GREEN
CONSTRUCTION
BOARD
GREEN DEAL
ASSET
SUMMIT
GREEN DEAL
STRATEGIC
ALLIANCE
CSKILLS
www.cskills.org/cutcarbon
Skills and Green Deal
Phil Stott
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
CITB-ConstructionSkills
CITB-ConstructionSkills is the Industrial
Training Board and Sector Skills Council for
construction and it is:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Common units – examples
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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.
Beyond the common units
• Research: first report from employers by
February/March – encompassing demand for Green
Deal skills and qualifications, delivery issues and
emerging business models.
• Train the Trainer packs for Installers and Green Deal
Advisors – installer manual available now on Cutting
the Carbon website; advisor manual available March
2012.
• Piloting aspects of the Common Competency
Framework to inform future work – pilots complete and
feedback was excellent!
• Disseminating information and consulting widely (e.g.
Phase two
(April 2012 to March 2014)
• Funding secured from the UKCES “Employer
Investment Fund”.
• Focus – piloting new/emerging qualifications
and then moving onto implementation
issues, plus work with DECC and the
devolved administrations to monitor the
roll-out of Green Deal training and
qualifications.
Phase two continued
Individual project details still being finalised but include:
• Research
• Training trainers
• Quality of learning
• New competencies to fill gaps
• More events (but to differing models) –
partners welcome contact Phil Stott.
• Listening and engagement
Summary
• Individual SSC work vital on an
occupation specific basis.
• GDSA input gives an added dimension.
• Important to ensure that training and
qualifications integrate with the emerging
(UKCAS supervised) regulatory regimes.
• All the answers NOT yet known; your
feedback and questions today will help
provide some of these!
GDSA Contact Details
• Email: [email protected]
• Telephone: 0845 678 2 888
BUSUK
Build Up Skills UK
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Build Up Skills UK (BUSUK)
Backed by the EU Commission taking place in 21 member
countries, with more to join shortly.
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Focused on the built environment.
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Project to develop a Skills Roadmap to ensure the UK has an
appropriately skilled workforce to meet the EU 2020 targets:
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Reduce energy consumption by 20%
Reduce green house gas emissions by 20%
Meet 20% of energy needs through renewable resources
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BUSUK Consortium
4 Sector Skills Councils working together to represent their
footprints:
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Asset Skills – Manages project and recruits Platform of
stakeholders to inform and endorse research.
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ConstructionSkills – Conducts Research and develops
Roadmap.
SummitSkills – Manages endorsement process of Roadmap.
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Energy & Utility Skills – Evaluates project.
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BUSUK Process - Platform
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Project will be developed and endorsed by the built
environment energy efficiency sector, for the sector.
Tool to achieve this sector engagement will be the National
Qualifications Platform, consisting of:
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50 core stakeholders
National and devolved nation steering committees
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Wider Platform – key for endorsement
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Developing the Roadmap
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Establish National Qualifications Platform.
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Conduct status quo analysis to take “snap shot” of sector
skills and training at the moment.
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Use analysis and Platform to develop the Roadmap which
illustrates barriers to training and skills gaps.
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Secure sector endorsement of the Roadmap.
Use endorsement and evaluation of project to develop
training infrastructure as part of Pillar 2 (to be confirmed).
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Communications
The success of the project will be defined by input/endorsement
from the sector. This buy-in will be secured through clear
communications:
Regular newsletter to Platform
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Twitter feed
Website with online consultation, news, updates – due to launch
March 2012.
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Clear branding
Interaction with EU partners.
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Key Dates
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Establish the National Qualifications Platform: March 2012.
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Publish Analysis of the Status Quo: June 2012.
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Publish 2020 Skills Roadmap: December 2012.
Endorsement: throughout but completed by February 2013.
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Pillar 2: 2014 and beyond.
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Contact details
How can I register interest and join the
Platform?
Please contact Lucy Radford:
[email protected] or via 01392
423 399
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