IMA webinar to help architects and specifiers interrogate whole-life carbon data

With regulatory scrutiny of carbon claims increasing, architects and specifiers are under

growing pressure to justify carbon decisions, often relying on product comparisons that fail to

reflect a building’s true environmental performance. Insulation Manufacturers Association

(IMA) is hosting a webinar to help building professionals understand what to look for, and what

to question, when assessing whole-life carbon and fabric-first insulation strategies.

The webinar on Thursday 22nd October at 11am will examine how insulation specification

decisions should be assessed within the context of whole-building performance, rather than

through isolated product comparisons, and what this means in practice for designers,

specifiers and installers navigating increasing regulatory scrutiny of carbon claims. The session

will draw on IMA’s whole-life carbon research carried out by XCO2, exploring what it reveals

about assessing insulation specification within the context of the building.

Speakers will include Marc Walsh, Product Management & Development Engineer at Unilin

Insulation, and Tom Raftery, Sustainability and PV Manager at Bauder, who will share technical

and sustainability perspectives from their respective areas of the industry. The session will be

moderated by Simon Storer, Chief Executive of IMA.

Commenting on the upcoming webinar, Simon Storer, Chief Executive of IMA said: “Carbon

comparisons in the construction sector are becoming more common but too many decisions

are still being made on data that hasn’t been properly interrogated. This webinar will provide

the opportunity to hear directly from people working through these challenges day to day,

and to ask the questions that matter before they find themselves relying on a figure they can’t

fully verify.”

Further details, and registration information, will be announced in due course.

For more information about IMA or to download the Whole-life carbon and insulation

specification report, visit www.insulationmanufacturers.org.uk