The new SKA V2.0 Offices scheme is now live! The assessment methodology has been streamlined and focuses on only environmental impacts of interior projects.
There are a total of eighty-three measures across nine impact categories. During the development of SKA 2.0, there has been strong coordination across the categories to ensure they support each other and avoid conflicting scenarios as much as possible. There has also been a systematic effort to work earlier and later into project timelines to enable opportunities as early as possible and drive performance into occupancy in a more effective way.
Some highlights of the update:
- Clarity of Energy technologies with the current Energy Technology List (ETL) categories.
- Introducing overarching operational and embodied energy related measures.
- The Ecology category has been added, and the Timber measure relocated here. Timber is assessed as all other materials now in addition to ecological responsible sourcing.
- The renaming of the Waste category to Resource Management, and the lifting of performance in Circularity in both this category and the Materials category.
- The addition of embodied carbon limits in the Materials criteria wherever these could be set right now. Options for product only or total element limits that include pre-loved products and materials.
- New measures under Project Delivery that promote better time and coordination planning of projects.
- Link to the UK Net Zero Buildings Standard and WLC, and the ability to achieve and obtain a SKArating certificate that is Net Zero aligned under each rating. (currently this has no official links to the UKNZBS)
- The removal/renaming of the Wellbeing category to Environmental Health; this is in advance of the Social & Wellbeing scheme coming next year.
Interested in registering your project and certifying under this new SKA v2.0 Offices scheme? Contact our sustainability team!