Green construction can drive jobs boom in London says report
Green construction can drive jobs boom in London says report
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Adopting the most sustainable methods of “clean construction” will create thousands of extra jobs in London in the coming decades, a major new study has claimed. The research claims almost 10 million extra “job years” will be generated by 2050 with growth largely driven a rise in maintenance and repair work, which will generate 6.1 million job years - 800,000 more than under a carbon-intensive model.
In addition, industrialised construction and timber construction will contribute 216,490 and 68,371 job years respectively. Overall London would see a 13% rise in its construction workforce. The report also says that clean construction could help ease the capital’s chronic housing crisis through developing low-carbon industrialised construction at scale. It points out that Mayor Sadiq Khan has already introduced the Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to control emissions on construction sites across the capital. The NRMM LEZ will mean that all building sites in London must have only zero-emission machinery by 2040.
The findings come from a study from the thinktank C40 Cities which looked at the potential benefits for major conurbations if their construction sectors transition to a low carbon way of working. The built environment is responsible for almost 40% of global CO2 emissions,.
