Different countries and regions have different regulations and bureaucracies.

RIBA represents architecture and CIBSE represents engineers.Then there’s the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) and networks like Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN).

The latter are more voluntary organisations, aiming to demystify some of the complexity around net-zero.They’re trying to push things from a legislation perspective.Legislation is important, because it leads to clear guidance which industry professionals can use in their day-to-day work.

LETI have taken it upon themselves to look at embodied carbon in order to put into a single benchmark what the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), RIBA, CIBSE and others are doing.It’s positive that individual institutions are there to provide very detailed guidance for specific consultants and professionals, but we also need to have an overarching look at where the industry is heading as a whole.. LETI and Design for net zero carbon.

Last year LETI published some of the first documents offering advice on designing for net-zero carbon: The Climate Emergency Design Guide, and The Embodied Carbon Primer.

A voluntary organisation made up of hundreds of professionals, LETI aims to share and collate knowledge in order to improve the way buildings are designed.The rule and data-led thinking that defines Chips and how they can fit together in a design e.g.

scale, adjacency, proximity etc.lends itself to the use of Configurators, which can be designed by our.

Creative Technologies.team, to automate the design process..