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31 July 2008
Commercial buildings are scoring an average C energy rating in the early rounds of energy performance certificate rating in the commercial sector.
31 July 2008
Friends of the Earth wants proposed reforms to the retail planning system genuinely to protect town centres and small shops, and curb the growth in out-of-town supermarkets.
30 June 2008
The head of the UK unit of German utility Eon, Paul Golby said utilities will have to spend some £100bn by 2020 on wind farms and new nuclear plants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and replace ageing facilities, in line with the EU’s policy on renewable energy.
30 June 2008
A revised version of BREEAM, set to be released in August, will give points for innovation. ‘Innovation credits’ will be from areas that aren’t assessed under regular BREEAM credits. The idea is to encourage creative thinking on how to achieve better buildings.
30 June 2008
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.
31 May 2008
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
31 May 2008
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.
27 July 2007
Defra wants focus on individual buildings...
27 July 2007
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
30 June 2007
Sustainability in building design remains weak in the UK because the planning system lacks commitment to the issue says the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.