The BPF wants a radical reshaping of the housing market and presented housing minister Caroline Flint a report advocating a corporate rental sector to boost investment.

Sustainable building practices are slowly moving into the commercial refurbishment and retrofit market, driven by both legislative requirements and good corporate housekeeping considerations. In the final part of a series on sustainable retrofit, Dr Paul K Hatchwell looks particularly at energy issues facing the sustainable offices sector

Achieving higher BREEAM Schools ratings need not be prohibitively expensive and the main barrier to uptake is perceptions about additional costs, according to the new report from the BRE Trust and Faithful & Gould.

The number of conferences on sustainability and green issues grew dramatically this year at MIPIM. SB sat in on some and reports on what was said. Ian Grant reports.

The British Property Federation (BPF) is calling on ministers to mirror tough zero carbon homes targets across other heavily polluting areas of British industry, by offering direct incentives in return for improved environmental performance.

SB trawls the 2,500 stands and dips into the seminars at MIPIM to gauge how far the property industry is getting to grips with sustainability