Code for Sustainable Buildings gets new task force

The UK Green Building Council (UK GBC) has appointed the bosses of Lend Lease and Willmott Dixon to a group that will develop a Code for Sustainable Buildings.

The 10-strong task force has been set a six month deadline to bring the proposed Code closer to development by considering how the benchmark should operate.

Lend Lease’s UK chief executive Daniel Labbad and Willmott Dixon boss John Frankiewicz are on the group with Aggregate Industries UK boss Bill Bolsover and the Royal Institute of British Architects' president Sunand Prasad.

Group chairman and UK GBC chief executive Paul King said the group would consult with industry and present its final recommendations on the Code to EcoBuild in March 2009.

King said: “We will be exploring what the industry needs in order to meet some very ambitious targets and deliver high quality, high value, sustainable buildings.

“The group will consider how a Code can provide a clear, robust and holistic benchmark for what constitutes a sustainable building.

“The benchmark should stand the test of time and be used with confidence by all stakeholders from product manufacturers to property investors.”

The task group members are:

• Bill Bolsover, chief executive, Aggregate Industries UK
• Dr John Connaughton, partner, Davis Langdon
• Ian Coull, chief executive, Segro
• John Frankiewicz, chief executive, Willmott Dixon
• Alistair Guthrie, director, Ove Arup & Partners
• Ken Hall, managing director, Prologis
• Bill Hughes, managing director, Legal & General Property
• Daniel Labbad, chief executive UK, Lend Lease
• Sunand Prasad, president, Royal Institute of British Architects
• Ant Wilson, business unit director, Faber Maunsell.