King’s College London have been working with the Greater London Authority to develop and build their new online register as part of the Low Emission Zone (LEZ) for the construction industry, which was launched at the beginning of September.

The LEZ for non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) is a forerunner to the Greater London Authority’s plans for an Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in central London from 2020.

It is estimated up to 12% of nitrogen oxides and 15% of particulate pollution currently emitted in London comes from construction activity, mainly as diesel emissions from the large pieces of machinery and equipment used for construction and demolition activities. The NRMM LEZ aims to cut these types of emissions by nearly 50% by 2020.

The website will inform equipment manufacturers, hire companies, property developers and their contractors about which equipment is compliant for use within the new NRMM LEZ. Developers and contractors will also be required to use the register to list NRMM being used at each site.

The new NRMM emission standards are expected to be met through fleet renewal, re-organisation of existing fleet, re-engineering and retrofitting abatement technologies.

The register will also allow local authorities to access details about NRMM being used on developments within their own boroughs for planning enforcement purposes.

This website will create a unique NRMM data resource for London that will both encourage the uptake of higher emission standards to be tracked against policy and support the development of a more accurate London Atmospheric Emission Inventory.

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Item date 06/10/2015