As one of the UK’s pioneers in using IoT to reduce carbon emissions, Cloudfm has welcomed an Environment Audit Committee (EAC) report calling for whole-life carbon assessments for larger buildings.The report, ‘Building to net zero: costing carbon in construction’, published ...

Leading University of Oxford expert, Professor Sir Charles Godfray FRS, has been appointed by Compass Group UK & Ireland as Chief Climate and Sustainability Advisor to its Executive Team. The role will see Professor Godfray support the clients of Compass ...

The University of East London (UEL) has formed a strategic partnership with Siemens to collaborate on its aspiration of achieving net zero carbon by 2030. Siemens will deliver improvement measures to reduce overall energy use, and engineer solutions to drive ...

The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has published a guide to support industry to retrofit the UK’s poorly performing commercial buildings. From 2025, every commercial building in the UK will require an energy performance certificate (EPC) which rates its energy ...

Pinnacle Group has published a Carbon Reduction Plan detailing how the business aims to minimise direct and indirect emissions across each of its services and extensive property portfolio over the next decade.   In the plan, the facilities and property management ...

The UK hospitality industry is missing out on savings of £736 million a year due to outdated facilities management practices, reveals a new study. The sector needs to urgently embrace new ways of working to realise savings and cut carbon ...

The real estate industry’s first competition dedicated to empowering commercial buildings to make a significant contribution to net zero, has officially launched in the UK. Since the competition was announced in June 2021, CUBE has signed up nine leading industry ...

The headline climate pledges of 25 of the world’s largest companies in reality only commit to reduce their emissions by 40 per cent on average, not 100 per cent as suggested by their “net zero” and “carbon neutral” claims, according ...

ISS has committed to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions within scope 1 and 2 by 2030 and full-scope net zero emissions by 2040, including its full supply chain. The global workplace experience and facility management company has also pledged ...

Landsec has become the latest participant to sign up to the UK-wide CUBE Competition, designed to help landlords, building managers and occupiers improve energy efficiency in their commercial buildings through gamification and behavioural change. The UK real estate company has ...