Sustainable refurbishment specialist, Better Green Living, has announced its business expansion into office, hotel and nursing home sectors, as it brings its retrofit expertise to existing commercial and residential buildings to meet the UK’s Net Zero target by 2050. Existing ...

Multi-disciplinary consultancy Pick Everard has been selected to provide built heritage services for the National Trust in meeting its net zero and other sustainability targets. Appointed under the Building Surveying Associate Model, Pick Everard’s specialist culture and heritage team will work ...

United Infrastructure has partnered with the University of Salford to deliver a full-scale 1930s retrofit property within Energy House 2.0, the University’s world-leading research facility. The collaboration marks the first project under the new Centre for Retrofit, which aims to ...

UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard (UK NZCBS) has announced Bureau Veritas as the preferred bidder for the role of the Standard’s Verification Administrator. As preferred bidder in the second stage of the tender for the role, Bureau Veritas is ...

The largest-ever survey of UK businesses on their approach to net zero reveals that 79 per cent of large companies view it as a strategic priority for the year ahead. More than a third (35 per cent) of small and ...

OCS has teamed up with Scottish Water Horizons to deliver one of the largest solar carports in the country at Scottish Water’s head office in Stepps, North Lanarkshire, in the west of Scotland. The £2.4 million project will see 2,250 ...

In the summer of 2025, CIWM’s Policy & Innovation Forum commissioned and endorsed an independent review of the UK’s policy landscape from a resources and waste sector perspective, now summarised in the CIWM ‘Let’s Not Waste the Next Four Years’ ...

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 ...

Executive Compass responds to Pagabo’s latest white paper, warning that without urgent procurement reforms, businesses bidding for public sector contracts risk undermining the UK’s decarbonisation goals. A new white paper from national framework provider Pagabo has revealed significant doubts among ...

According to the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) as the sector works towards meeting sustainability targets and net zero commitments, the need for evidence-based approaches has never been more critical. What role do you believe technological innovation will ...