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National Buildings Database

  • Year: 2024
  • Client: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
  • Delivered By: Winning Moves

For the past 10 years, UCL’s Building Stock Lab has been working on creating an inventory of every building in Great Britain. The database links over 20 existing and new datasets to develop a detailed geospatial, 3D, digital representation of each building, along with their energy use. As buildings are responsible for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions in the country, if we are to reach net zero by 2050, emissions for all buildings will have to be all but eliminated. 

The data on non-domestic buildings is being verified and quality-assured through telephone surveys conducted by Winning Moves and site audits conducted by our partner Verco.  

The results of the first phase of research have been published by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero and can be found here.

Overall, the results demonstrated valuable progress in the understanding of the non-domestic building stock – highlighting the complexity of the stock and challenges shared by many businesses. 

This first phase focused on the hospitality sector and included three primary activities: 

A three-dimensional model which helped to derive floor area for each building, and to which annualised energy meter data of every meter in the country could be connected 
Analysis of previously unreleased Energy Performance Certificate data  
A survey methodology designed to collect more detailed information on buildings and their characteristics to complement the database
As part of this phase of the work, an analysis of large premises not connected to the gas grid was also undertaken which included remote and onsite surveys, as well as detailed zero-carbon audits.   

The new insights from phase one will be expanded in the second phase of research to examine the entire building stock.

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Service

Generate Analysis

Subject

Environment

Client

National Government