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This year’s annual RIBA lecture was from TV presenter and developer Kevin McCloud, who has taken on the mantle of a leader in the sustainable architecture community

A few days into a coalition government and we ask ourselves: ‘What fundamental changes to the UK’s sustainability and carbon policies are likely to occur?'

“The ODA has also explored ways to further reduce the carbon impact of its transport activities, including the use of low-carbon concrete in the construction of transport infrastructure”

Ideas on sustainability and buildings abounded at the individual, project and city scales at MIPIM, the annual international property show in Cannes.

 “The Government and market are on the right tack to meet the green expectations,” Max Crofts, president RICS, 4 March

As the general election looms ever closer, EIC continues to make the business case for the highest standards of environmental protection

Critics of the concrete industry often ignore the significant energy and CO2 reductions that it has made and is committed to making still further

EIC’s Sustainable Buildings and Energy Efficiency Working Group is currently consulting with its members on an industry response to the zero carbon non-domestic buildings consultation

The infamous question our industry asks, a million times over, is what is the future of EPCs. I believe that they do have a future, but not quite yet.

A couple of much needed financial incentives for domestic retrofit emerged this month – from both sides of the Atlantic

The call for an international baseline measureable standard which provides a common language for measuring greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency of buildings is growing

The impact of freezing temperatures is very easy to see in the UK’s leaky and inefficient housing stock

Andy Walder, director of the National Construction College, on the importance of environmental best practice and sustainable building solutions

Sharon Henderson, managing director of Quest Construction Marketing, has compiled some tips on how to get the most out of exhibiting at such events.

Newspapers from around the world put political, social and language differences aside to publish a joint editorial calling for action from world leaders at Copenhagen