UK households are open to adopting heat pumps, but significant barriers around knowledge, trust and installer training could make it harder to translate that appetite into widespread heat pump adoption.
Actis insulation specialists are backing a call for billions of promised government funds to be released ahead of the planned deadline to help ease the financial burden of soaring energy bills on tenants living in social housing.
Galliford Try has boosted its Environment business through the acquisition of Ham Baker's asset inspection, maintenance and screens and distributor operations.
Choosing the right (or wrong) building materials can be critical in dictating the whole-life carbon impact of a building. NorDan UK Ltd’s technical specification advisor Tom O’Sullivan, shares his knowledge on why reducing embodied carbon before a building is occupied is key to hitting net-zero.
With soaring bills and supply concerns putting the focus on the energy efficiency crisis, Nick Jacobs, executive managing director of Taurus UK, looks at the key drivers of green buildings.
Balfour Beatty partnered with the Supply Chain Sustainability School to survey supply chain partners, aiming to understand how to achieve net zero in the industry.
Galliford Try's environment business has secured two spots on the Welsh Water capital maintenance framework, their first union with the company in a decade.
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE) has published a new guide aimed at supporting consultancies which deliver roads to achieve net zero.
Commitments such as preventing global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5C degrees should be part of the UK's positioning as a global climate leader, says the UKGBC.
The NHBC Foundation has published a new 'Carbon Jargon Guide' – a free guide to help explain and standardise the language used around carbon and energy in the housebuilding industry.
The Africa Regional Network of the World Green Building Council has launched a manifesto for the development of a sustainable built environment in Africa.
An urgent retrofit skills revolution must be locally led and nationally funded, says Cara Jenkinson, cities manager at climate solutions charity Ashden.
Once developed, the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard will provide a single agreed definition and methodology for the industry to determine what constitutes a net zero carbon building.
Maria Hudson, CMO at Zutec looks at what’s new with the Part L 2021 Building Regulations and how a SaaS platform can help ensure mandatory photographic evidence compliance.
David Partridge, chair of the UK’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, discusses the development of a common standard in the UK built environment, and why it will be vital for both the industry – and the planet.
A new report from Turner & Townsend argues that as fraught economic conditions make clients cautious, compromising net zero strategies isn’t the answer.
Retrofitting, and increasing the repair, maintenance and improvement (RMI) of the existing housing stock is one the most significant challenges (and opportunities) to reaching net zero, reducing energy bills and improving public health, says David Barnes, policy and public affairs manager at the Chartered Institute of Building.
