The development aims for 900 habitable rooms per hectare at Code Level 4. Ben Kochan explains

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.

BRE is likely to add another rating to BREEAM system which will be higher than the current top grade – “excellent”.

Transport and Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson wants Scottish homes to match Scandinavia.

Communities minister Iain Wright has described the energy performance effects of home information packs as extremely encouraging.

The East of England Regional Assembly has suggested the Government replaces its “eco-towns” approach with an “eco-neighbourhoods” drive.

Eighty four per cent of construction professionals think that the construction industry does not understand the Government’s Part L legislation.

The UK Green Building Council has announced a review of the BREEAM environmental system.

Wales’s Auditor General Jeremy Colman said no Welsh local authority will come close to cutting energy use by a third - a target set by the Home Energy Conservation Act over 10 years ago.

A new generation of ambitious projects is aiming for full sustainability and nothing short of a revolution in green design in North America. Dr Paul K Hatchwell reports.