Passivhaus Agar Grove welcomes first residents
The first residents have moved into Camden’s Agar Grove, the biggest Passivhaus housing development in the UK. Max Fordham, working…
28 March 2019
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UK must eliminate emissions from buildings
28 March 2019
Mirvac crowned overall winner at awards
Mirvac has been crowned CIBSE Building Performance Champion, after judges named its 200 George Street office in Sydney the International…
28 February 2019
No-deal Brexit alarm hits construction project starts
Market surveys have shown January to have had the slowest growth rate in new construction projects for 10 months, which…
28 February 2019
Industry facing radical change
CIBSE technical director Hywel Davies believes the UK building services industry is facing an unprecedented combination of drivers that will…
28 February 2019
Warning of fire-break failures two years before Grenfell
Studies commissioned by the government, and carried out by BRE, two years before the Grenfell Tower tragedy, highlighted the danger of fire…
28 February 2019
Developers ‘ignoring’ sprinkler advice
The LFB carried out spot checks on 15 new or refurbished blocks and found that just two had sprinklers fitted.…
28 February 2019
Homes unfit for climate change challenge, says CCC
Experts have warned that the UK will not meet legally binding climate change targets without the near elimination of greenhouse…
28 February 2019
Clean Air Strategy places solid-fuel heating in its sights
The government has promised to reduce harmful airborne particulates across ‘much of the country’ by 2030 and to meet targets…
31 January 2019
Parliament debates adoption of project bank accounts
New Bill aims to ensure small businesses are paid ‘directly and promptly’ A new Bill calling for payments on government…
31 January 2019
Leti starts mapping out net-zero challenge
A technical guidance roadmap for developers is being drawn up by the London Energy Transformation Initiative (Leti). It aims to…
31 January 2019
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