British Land’s heat pump retrofit at York House

The adoption of energy management standards has been key to enabling British Land to target net zero carbon by 2030 and begin the energy transition to heat pumps across its multibillion-pound estate. Alex Smith reports

CIBSE head office: first steps to decarbonisation

Providing value for staff and members while demonstrating an affordable path to net zero is at the heart of the strategy for CIBSE’s new office, workplace consultant Colin Stuart tells Alex Smith

Light2Perform: treading a circular path

As the lighting industry increasingly focuses on circularity and repair, an expert panel at Light2Perform discussed opportunities and challenges

Renewing tradition: installing PVs on King’s College Chapel

Grade I-listed King’s College Chapel, in Cambridge, is one of the UK’s most revered buildings, so a new photovoltaic array on the roof had to be designed with utmost sensitivity. Alex Smith finds out how Max Fordham’s design satisfied the planners

Doing more with less: interview with SLL president Dan Lister

Lighting design should prioritise people-orientated lighting solutions while reducing embodied and operational carbon, according to SLL president Dan Lister, who tells Molly Tooher-Rudd that lighters should learn lessons from the past, when high costs meant luminaires were used sparingly

Cutting carbon: Whitecroft Lighting’s C2C approach

Whitecroft Lighting won a CIBSE Embodied Carbon Award by adopting lean manufacturing and design to cut life-cycle carbon from its products by up to 46%. Molly Tooher-Rudd speaks to the firm’s Tim Bowes about its circular approach

A guide to trustworthy heat pump design

A new Passivhaus Trust guide to air-to-water heat pumps aims to highlight some of the complex aspects of design that are sometimes missed by experienced engineers, says Warm’s Sally Godber