Net Zero Buildings Council

The Net Zero Buildings Council (NZBC) is a dynamic partnership between the government, industry and third sector which focuses on the delivery and implementation of key objectives within the Heat and Buildings and Net Zero Strategies.

Scope

  The NZBC drives delivery of the UK’s key objectives on heat and buildings decarbonisation with members contributing by providing real-world insights, data and expertise.   The Council focuses on the challenge of decarbonising buildings and the implementation of the government’s Heat and Buildings Strategy and Net Zero Strategy. This extends to all UK building types including homes (rented, social and owner-occupied), commercial, industrial, and public sector buildings.

Purpose

The NZBC has a particular focus on helping achieve the critical missions of:

  • Decarbonising homes, public buildings and commercial buildings through improved energy efficiency, low carbon heating and smart flexibility
  • Building a highly skilled UK market that supports green jobs and levelling up, and builds on the UK’s competitive advantages to maximise economic benefits
  • Achieving these in the context of wider social and housing priorities such as better, healthier, smarter homes and affordable energy bills

The objectives of the NZBC are to:

  • Provide ministerial and senior industry leadership and direction on efforts to deliver energy efficient homes and low carbon heating
  • Optimise the strategic, economic, and international benefits of developing these industries to create skilled jobs and help level up the UK
  • Accelerate the public acceptance and awareness of the benefits of the net zero transition through considered and coherent communications that help to put the consumer at the heart of the transition
  • Encourage and enable innovation and development of new technology (e.g. hydrogen), delivery models and enablers that challenge existing approaches by involving disruptors and innovators in the dialogue

Chairs

  • Lord Callanan, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
  • Eddie Hughes MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Members

  • Barnaby Wharton, Director, Future Electricity Systems, RenewableUK
  • Brian Berry, Chief Executive, Federation of Master Builders
  • David Pinder, Chair, Green Construction Board
  • David Thomas, Group Chief Executive, Barratt Homes
  • Dean Finch, Group Chief Executive, Persimmon
  • Emma Pinchbeck, Chief Executive, Energy UK 
  • Greg Jackson, Chief Executive Officer, Octopus 
  • Guy Newey, Strategy and Performance Director, Energy Systems Catapult
  • Howard Porter, Chief Executive Officer, BEAMA
  • Ian Calvert, Chief Executive Officer, The Association for Decentralised Energy
  • Ian Hughes, Director of Policy, Local Government Association
  • Julie Hirigoyen, Chief Executive, UK Green Building Council
  • Karen Boswell, Managing Director, Baxi
  • Kate Henderson, Chief Executive, National Housing Federation
  • Mike Reynolds, Managing Director, Vattenfall Heat UK 
  • Peter Smith, Director of Policy and Advocacy, National Energy Action
  • Rob Gross, Director, UK Energy Research Centre
  • Sadie Morgan, Board Member, Homes England; Founding Director, dRMM Architects
  • Stewart Baseley, Executive Chairman, Home Builders Federation
  • Viki Cooke, Co-founder and Chair, BritainThinks

NZBC meeting minutes

Net Zero Buildings Council minutes: 30 June 2022 (PDF, 176 KB, 4 pages)

Net Zero Buildings Council minutes: 23 March 2022 (PDF, 348 KB, 3 pages)

The NZBC held its first meeting on 6 December 2021:

Net Zero Buildings Council minutes: 6 December 2021 (PDF, 191 KB, 3 pages)

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