Offices: Past, Present, Future
Sustainable office buildings are crucial for achieving the UK’s climate goals and promoting environmental sustainability. Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) are becoming an increasingly important tool in support of the UK Government’s commitment to achieve net zero by 2050, through driving improvements in energy efficiency across the building stock, thereby helping to mitigate energy use, cost and associated carbon emissions.
The structural shift in demand towards
new and refitted, sustainable, energy-efficient buildings is being reinforced by a combination of occupier preferences, corporate social responsibility goals and the tightening of environmental regulations.
Our report attempts to answer that question through a detailed analysis of four key office quality metrics, and provides the Carter Jonas Office Market Sustainability Index, which compares the average sustainability level of the office stock across 12 key UK office markets.
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"Around 55% of existing UK office inventory by floorspace is more than 30 years old and at risk of functional obsolescence. This is putting tremendous pressure on landlords amid the current economic climate and uncertainty about future office occupation levels."
Read the full report to learn more about the profile
of the UK’s office stock, how each city has scored,
and our view on the implications for the future.
First
pocket-sized electronic
calculator
First word processing program
The
Sinclair ZX80 introduced
IBM Personal Computer (PC) is bought to market
First ‘public’ mobile phone call in the UK
World Wide Web available
to the public
IBM’s Deep
Blue defeats
the world chess champion
USB flash
drive comes
to market
Facebook founded
YouTube founded & Google Earth released
First bitcoin transaction
Siri
announced
5G available
to the public
The Sustainability of Office Stock in the UK
But how sustainable and energy efficient is the UK’s office stock, and to what extent does it meet the requirements of today and going forward?
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Source: Carter Jonas
UK office stock by age
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Number of buildings