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Increased scientific research has proven that the world temperature is increasing beyond natural levels, which could have catastrophic effects for its inhabitants. We now live in an age of growing environmental concern; carbon dioxide (CO2) which is produced by the world’s industrial nations enhances along with other gases the ‘green-house effect’, which heats up the earth’s temperature and causes sea levels to rise and the Polar Regions to melt. Freak weather conditions, flooding, drought and famine could all be a consequence of global warming. Finally with this knowledge in mind the world’s politicians are starting to take action.
The chain of legislation that has acted as a catalyst for Approved Document L began at the United Nations (UN) with the Earth Summit and Kyoto Protocol. These strategies were passed to the European Union (E.U) who answered to the UN global target by creating and implementing the Energy Performance Building Directive (EPBD) across its member states. The EPBD noticed that buildings where the single largest opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions and therefore ordered all EU members to comply in reducing CO2 emissions in buildings to help combat climate change.
As such Approved Document L was introduced in 2001 and was updated with higher targets in 2006. Approved Document L aims to reduce the CO2 emissions by 20% on new build dwellings and 27% on buildings other than dwellings; these reductions are taken from the base line of 1990 and should be achieved by the year 2010.
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Part L1
L1A (ADL1A) for new dwellings
L1B (ADL1B) for existing dwellings
Part L2
L2A (ADL2A) for new buildings that are not dwellings
L2B (ADL2B) for existing buildings that are not dwellings.
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