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The Design Council announces the programme for the third edition of the award-winning Design for Planet Festival 2023. Under the theme COLLABORATE, the festival aims to mobilise the UK's powerful desi
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As you probably know, the annual UN sponsored climate meeting will this year take place in the United Arab Emirates. Now it transpires that the guy who runs the Emirate’s national oil company is runni
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In June, architects, engineers and local authority representatives from around the UK assembled at the annual FOOTPRINT+ property conference to discuss the future of British construction. Alongside th
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In June I sat on a panel at FOOTPRINT+ representing NACF, for what resulted in a very lively discussion on galvanising the circular economy in the built environment. We were there to talk about const
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The importance of leveraging building performance data in real time cannot be understated. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. In this blog, James Thomas, Head of Smart Buildings & Technolog
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I attended FOOTPRINT+ for the second year running. Last year, I was able to be there for two days (see 2022 write ups 1 and 2), however this year I had to cut things short to just the first day and wa
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Matthew Margetts, Director at Smarter Technologies, chaired the UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC’s) discussion on energy procurement and its significance in the decarbonisation process, titled “The
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After 2 amazing years on Brighton seafront, FOOTPRINT+ has come of age and for 2024 will relocate to London. Their new home will be Old Billingsgate Market; re-purposed by partner Marco Goldschmied of
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It may even hold some of the world’s worst polluters accountable. I explain the details in my new story about the case — and the remarkably colorful lawyer at the center of it. Here are the basics: A
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How do we evaluate the true cost of waste? And if we look beyond steel and bricks, can building materials such as timber help create a truly circular economy? A panel discussion at the recent FOOTPRIN
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A few weeks on from FOOTPRINT+ and I've been reflecting on my take-aways from this years conference, which I shared with the Fathom Architects team along with my fellow attendee Richard Hanley Timmins
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Hadley's Director of Sustainability and Innovation attended the FOOTPRINT+ 2023 conference earlier this month. Here is what he had to say. What’s going on at FOOTPRINT+ 23? The big white conference te
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UK event highlights state-of-the art methods to reduce carbon emissions FOOTPRINT+, the UK property event for a zero carbon future, took place from 6th-8th June at an idyllic location on Brighton & Ho
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A guide to understanding construction options for low-carbon developers. Timber Development UK (TDUK) – the UK’s trade association for the timber supply chain – has launched a new guide to understandi
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1. Why is it important that the UK’s property, planning and sustainability sectors come together at FOOTPRINT+? Sustainability in the built environment has always posed a challenge. With increasingly
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1. Why is it important that the UK’s property, planning and sustainability sectors come together at FOOTPRINT? With the climate emergency getting worse, we have a massively important and urgent task f
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Among the usual flurry of work before the winter holidays, there was one discreet email that we had to pause for. It was a short message from the BRE to British Land and the 1 Broadgate team, informin
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Paddington Central’s 5 Kingdom Street logistics hub will remove around 100 large vans from Westminster’s roads every day British Land has secured planning approval for an ultra-low carbon logistics hu
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In 2019, the UK parliament passed legislation which requires the government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and effectively make the country net zero. Net zero occurs when the balance of gr
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How IoT Simplifies the Achievement of Net Zero Carbon Buildings The government is committed to achieving net zero by 2050. According to the UKGBC’s Whole Life Carbon Road Map, buildings account for ar
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As published in Bisnow on 01 April 2022 The clock is ticking loudly to improve the Energy Performance Certificate ratings of commercial buildings. From April 2023, landlords will not be allowed to con
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EPR is delighted to have collaborated with The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) on their latest report exploring the design, delivery and cost impact of net zero carbon buildings: ‘Building the case
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SRE Briefing Note – MEES Since 1st April 2018, the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) have required commercial landlords to ensure that their properties in England and Wales have a minimum Ene
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SRE Briefing Note – SAP 10 SAP 10 is the updated methodology for calculating energy use in residential developments. All developments registered after 15th June 2022 will be assessed under Part L 2021
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