The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) has announced the winners of the 2025 Building Performance Awards which celebrated individuals, organisations, products and projects that have set new benchmarks for sustainability, innovation and performance in the built environment. The ...

The Construction Industry Council (CIC) in partnership with built and natural environment think tank, the Edge, have published the ‘Competence Framework for Sustainability in the Built Environment’. This is an underpinning framework for developing discipline-specific sustainability competence requirements across the ...

New research has revealed that 83 per cent of commercial buildings in seven major cities have an EPC below B. The analysis of commercial real estate in London, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle, carried out by the British ...

Houston & Hawkes, independent B Corp caterer, has appointed James Carr as Head of ESG and Safety. With a strong focus on sustainability, safety, and long-term corporate responsibility, Carr will play a pivotal role in enhancing the company’s excellent safety ...

The Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI UK&I) has set up a committee of influential organisations to champion sustainability within the commercial foodservice sector. Driven by increasing demand for transparent environmental data and evolving regulatory landscapes, this group issues a collective ...

When the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust were looking to develop a new Oncology outpatients department, natural imagery and calming colours were a central part of the design brief. To this end, architects, Ansell and Bailey, specified a range of ...

Keenan Recycling has been formally recognised in the UK Parliament for its outstanding contributions to food waste recycling and carbon footprint reduction in Falkirk. To celebrate the company’s achievements in sustainability and renewable energy generation, Euan Stainbank MP, Scotland’s youngest ...

New statistics revealed in ‘Biodiversity Net Gain: The Story So Far’, from TerraQuest, the provider of Planning Portal, show that more than 75 per cent of non-householder planning applications have claimed exemptions from Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) requirements since the ...

Over four-fifths (83 per cent) of businesses lack confidence in the audit-readiness of their ESG data for compliance with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). This is according to a new survey of 1,000 senior IT and data leaders across ...

ISS has announced an industry-first partnership with Anthesis, a global sustainability firm, to conceive, develop and deliver exemplary sustainability solutions, optimised for FM. This partnership harnesses ISS’s extensive operational expertise in managing and maintaining complex facilities across diverse industries alongside ...