Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM). This rating system has become the world’s primary sustainability assessment.

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) design is a holistic economic, industrial and social framework that seeks to create systems that are not only efficient but also essentially waste free.

Replacing the fossil fuel energy sources currently being used (such as coal, oil/petroleum, and natural gas) with energy sources that emit far less carbon dioxide (such as wind, solar, and nuclear energy).

Environmental Product Declaration (EDP) - a standardised way of communicating information about the environmental impact of a product.

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) - a government document that outlines the impact of a proposed project on its surrounding environment.

The carbon footprint of a building or infrastructure project before it becomes operational. It also refers to the CO₂ produced maintaining the building and eventually demolishing it, transporting the waste, and recycling it.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) - promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) - A Green building rating system for all building types and all building phases including new construction, interior fit outs, operations and maintenance and core and shell.

Introduces a number of measures to combat slavery and human trafficking. In addition to creating new criminal offences, powers of enforcement and measures to protect victims, it introduces requirements intended to eliminate slavery and trafficking in global supply chains.

A method of environmental assessment for fit out projects in the UK. The scheme was introduced by The RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) as an alternative to the existing industry models for environmental certification which evaluate entire buildings instead of focusing on fit out projects.

Building Standard System of certification that is run by IWBI (The International WELL Building Institute). They are the world’s first building certification body that is devoted to assessing the impact of buildings upon human health and wellbeing.