The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is calling for expressions of interest from professionals and employers for two new planned pathways to RICS membership. The built environment and the role of surveyors within it is expanding, says RICS. And ...

The built sector’s roles and responsibilities regarding the race to net zero carbon came under the spotlight at this year’s UK Construction Week Conference in Birmingham. Recent survey findings revealed that just under 50 per cent of facilities management professionals ...

With the UK set to record its warmest summer on record, the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is calling for urgent action to tackle the growing number of buildings that overheat. The Association says the rising number of deaths linked ...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is collaborating on a new project with the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) which will align CISL’s sustainability leadership expertise with RICS’ mission to achieve a built and natural environment ...

Tom Garrigan, Executive Director at BSRIA says combining accurate building data with occupant insights can deliver retrofit programmes that are evidence-based, cost-effective, and resilient With 85 per cent of the buildings that will be in use by 2050 already built, ...

A new sector-wide study reveals overwhelming support for clearer sustainability standards in the UK’s built environment – with 86 per cent of professionals calling for mandatory Lifecycle Assessments (LCAs) on products to cut through confusion and rebuild trust. The figure, ...

The global shift toward people-first places has fuelled a 12-fold increase in WELL since 2020—now shaping roughly $2 trillion in assets. Global growth and adoption of the International WELL Building Institute’s (IWBI) WELL Building Standard (WELL) has surged to more ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), in its role as the Building Safety Regulator(BSR), has appointed CROSS-UK (Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures) as the official voluntary reporting system for structural and fire safety until at least 2028. As part of ...

Retrofitting everyday commercial properties – often overlooked in favour of high-profile, flagship projects – can generate extraordinary returns, according to a new report from Building Atlas. Entitled ‘The Beauty in ‘Boring’ Buildings: the business case for retrofit beyond flagship assets’ ...

CIBSE’s Measuring Performance and Facilities Management 2025 Conference brought together leading voices from across the built environment to explore the evolving landscape of building performance. Madeleine Ford reports CIBSE’s Measuring Performance and Facilities Management Conference, held on June 19, centred ...