RICS lead supporter at Ecobuild 2012
ExCeL London, 20-22 March 2012
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In 2012 RICS was one of the lead supporters at Ecobuild, the world's biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment, and the UK's largest construction event of any kind.
Although sustainability in the built environment is clearly a hot topic for both government and industry, this hasn't, as of yet, filtered down into mainstream delivery. With the core skills of our members being around both measurement and valuation, RICS is ideally placed to measure and count the cost of carbon pre-build, advise on best practice for energy performance retrofit projects and provide guidance on how sustainability can affect the current and future value of property, thus driving mainstream demand.
During the 3-day conference RICS made the 'business case for sustainable buildings', focussing on:
- The drivers for energy efficiency from a fiscal and business perspective for commercial property through our Buildings in Use seminar programme
- Sustainable retrofit of the existing UK commercial building stock through the Ska Rating accreditation
- Low-carbon retrofit of the UK housing stock and how surveyors can take up the opportunities that the Green Deal provides
- The links between valuation and sustainability with a new RICS research report exploring the green premium of UK buildings, launched at the Buildings in Use seminar session Is There a 'Green Premium' for Low-Carbon Buildings: Putting a Value on Sustainability?
RICS sponsored the seminar stream 'Buildings in Use' and ran free bite-sized technical workshops by its stand.
Find out about the key highligths of RICS' presence at Ecobuild 2012.
With all the phases of the built environment lifecycle represented in our membership, RICS is best placed to manage change towards a more sustainable business practice in land, real estate and construction.
- Access all RICS sustainability-related research and reports
- More information about RICS sustainability
- Follow RICS activities on the RICS sustainability blog
- Subscribe to our sustainability newsletter Global Balance
