Resources
Resources
GUIDANCE & GLOSSARIES
Design Council Skills For Planet Blueprint
UK Green Building Council Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework
Construction Industry Council (CIC) Competence Framework for Sustainability In The Built Environment
UK Green Building Council Future Homes Standard (FHS)
Interior Design Declares (IDD) Supplier Questionnaire Template & other resources
2050 Materials (Sustainable product resource)
Blue Patch (sustainable business community)
SKA Rating (environmental assessment scheme)
UK Green Building Council Glossary
Ellen Macarthur Foundation Glossary
Chemicals
Red List (list of 'worst in class' chemicals)
House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Life
Supply Chain School (courses and events)
Changing Streams (non profit aimed at reducing plastic use)
Circular economy
Energy & Traceability
SME Climate Hub: Carbon Measuring
Government guidance on how small businesses can measure and report their emissions
Government guidance for all businesses
Calculate your 'slavery footprint'
Paint
Demystifying Eco-Paint guide (British Coatings Federation)
Ethical Consumer ‘Sustainable Paint’
Breathability. Briefing paper: Paints and ‘Breathability’ steam diffusion (SD) values
Compassionate Shopping Guide (Naturewatch Foundation)
UK Government Policy - Testing Household Products
Paint Recycling
Social impact
2020 List of Goods Produced by Child Labour or Forced Labour
Child Labour and Modern Slavery Guidance (Built Environment Declares)
Transparency in Supply Chains- a Practical Guide
International Labour Standards on Forced Labour
How to read a Health Product Declaration (HPD)
Grace Farm Foundation’s Design for Freedom resources
The Just Label — International Living Future Institute
Changing Streams Research Centre (plastic in construction)
Equity in the Built Environment (EBE) Initiative, Living Future
Timber
Friends of the Earth - Good Wood Guide
Guidance on the UK Timber Regulations
Government guidance for those trading in timber
Grown In Britain Timber certification
Construction dust HSE information sheet
Water
Interior Design Community
Declaration: UK Interior Design Declares Climate & Biodiversity Emergency
Watch & Listen
People's Emergency Briefing film
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) Circular Series
The Secret Life of Landfill: A Rubbish History
Books
The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer's Guide Towards a Circular Economy Duncan Baker-Brown, RIBA Publishing
Sustainable Interior Design Chloe Bullock. RIBA Publishing
Wasted - when trash becomes treasure - Katie Treggiden
Cradle To Cradle - Remaking the Way We Make Things Michael Braungart & William McDonough
Wellbeing in Interiors: Philosophy, design and value in practice Elina Grigoriou, RIBA Publishing
Useful Apps
One million lives mental health and wellbeing app