NHS England has today (February 22) published the NHS Net Zero Building Standard, to provide guidance to support the development of sustainable, resilient and energy-efficient buildings that meet the needs of patients now and in the future.
While the approach to managing whole life carbon in the Standard is relevant to all healthcare buildings, the Standard will apply to all investments in new buildings and upgrades to existing facilities that are subject to HM Treasury business case approval process and are at pre-strategic outline business case approval stage from October 1, 2023 onwards. This will result in reduced carbon emissions and incremental improvements in the NHS building stock, ensuring consistency, standardisation and equity across the NHS estate over time.
There will be more about this on this website in due course, and in the March/April issue of Pulse magazine. In the meantime, the Standard may be found here.
