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Bricks are an everyday material that have been used in building for centuries. But their role as a modern day sustainable material mustn't be overlooked, reports Laura Day.

DECC has released 2050 Pathways Analysis as part of a suite of energy reports including the first ever Annual Energy Statement to Parliament, which itself sets out 32 actions of coalition energy and climate change policy

One of the key instruments in achieving the UK’s climate change targets may be delayed, creating further questions about the nation’s ability to meet its international commitments

"We are committed to being the greenest government ever, and an essential part of that is to ensure that all homes in the future will be built without emitting any carbon,” Grant Shapps, housing minister, 8 August

Sean Lockie, director of sustainability at Atkins, looks at the growing interest in embodied carbon and what this means to the construction industry

The debate about whether ivy on buildings is a good or bad thing seems to have been put to rest

After a 20 year ban, local authorities are once more free to sell surplus renewable electricity to the National Grid

Recent research has shown that the impacts of climate change will present opportunities for UK businesses across a range of sectors such as construction and retrofitting, water management, tourism, transport and food production

A number of recent reports examine cities and their moves to a low carbon future, and places the findings in the context of the new UK coalition government’s aspirations towards a green agenda

Owners of furnished holiday lettings face a tightened tax regime from April 2011, following the launch of a Government consultation in July

Felipe Cavalcante, president of ADIT Brasil, gives his views on likely future developments for the market in Brazil, one of the few major countries to have escaped the repercussions of the worldwide recession

Speak to most estate agents these days and they are as perplexed as most of us when it comes to reading the tea leaves with regard to prospects for the residential market in their areas of operation

Many housing associations and their tenants are not reaping the full benefits of installing renewable energy technologies

Why will prime property investment be one of the best asset classes to own in the next few years, while non-prime may prove to be a financial disaster?