BREEAM and LEED green certification schemes are "meaningless" says Andrew Waugh

Environmental certification schemes for buildings overlook embodied carbon and encourage architects to add unnecessary "systems and gizmos" to achieve high ratings, according to architect Andrew Waugh.
Schemes such as BREEAM and LEED focus overwhelmingly on operational emissions rather than emissions from the construction supply chain, Waugh argued.
However, embodied carbon emissions make up around half of all emissions from buildings. The percentage is rising as buildings become more energy-eff