JRA Director Anja Schellenbauer explores the UK’s latest frameworks for reducing whole-life carbon in her new CoStar article
Press 30th September 2026
JRA Director Anja Schellenbauer explores this shift in her latest article for CoStar, now live: From Measuring Carbon to Managing It: Why the UK NZCBS and UKGBC Whole Life Carbon Framework Matter.
Anja looks at the recently published UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard Version 1 and UKGBC Whole Life Carbon Framework, exploring how the two work together to provide both a benchmark and a practical roadmap for reducing whole-life carbon.
The article explores the growing need to make carbon a core design parameter alongside cost, programme, and quality, while highlighting the importance of retrofit and reuse, better carbon data, and closing the gap between predicted and operational performance.
