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Articles tagged with: Built environment
Homebuyers need accurate evidence of their property’s actual energy use Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers Association
Homebuyers need accurate evidence of their property’s actual energy use
Energy Performance Certificates in their current form are not fit for purpose. They need a revamp to capture the real measured performance of buildings.
Valuing the Energy Performance of our Homes Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers Association
Valuing the Energy Performance of our Homes
The Energy Saving Stamp Duty Incentive will provide a fair and flexible nudge for homeowners, valuing energy performance in the housing market and creating a strong, stable, sustainable competitive market.
Standardising our hospital design – a national opportunity Partner content
Health
By WSP
Standardising our hospital design – a national opportunity
WSP’s UK Head of Healthcare, Anisha Mayor, sets out the case in favour of moving to a standard design for future hospitals.
CIOB issues warning to construction SMEs - Embrace social value or get left behind Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
CIOB issues warning to construction SMEs - Embrace social value or get left behind
Partner content
Communities
By Policy@Manchester
Razing the neighbourhood: consequences and alternatives to council estate demolition
Post-war council estates suffer a barrage of stigmatising representations. Central and local governments, think tanks, and property companies call them ‘sink estates’ and ‘concrete monstrosities’. In television dramas and feature films, council estates are invariably grim and crime ridden. These representations have real-world effects. They establish social moods and opinions that encourage and justify the wave of estate demolitions that have beset London and other cities in recent decades.
Making the Most of What We’ve Got: Improving the Existing Built Environment Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institute of Building
Making the Most of What We’ve Got: Improving the Existing Built Environment
Adapting our existing buildings and infrastructure is critical if we are to achieve a low-carbon future. But how can professionals working in the built environment show leadership to support this ambition? A recent gathering of construction industry experts in the West Midlands explored new ways to shape places fit for a net zero future.
New guidance empowers construction clients to help drive up standards, collaboration, innovation and value Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institute of Building
New guidance empowers construction clients to help drive up standards, collaboration, innovation and value
Being a construction client isn’t just about creating the right building for the right price within the right timeframe. It is also an opportunity to solve some of the biggest economic, ethical and ecological problems we face today.
Built environment students join CIOB annual festival Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
Built environment students join CIOB annual festival
How Britain's Built Environment Became Degraded
Communities
By JS Curl
How Britain's Built Environment Became Degraded
In a stinging polemic, architectural historian and author of Making Dystopia Professor James Stevens Curl gives The House his view on exactly how Britain’s built environment lost its way
Wholesale canning of EU Laws could spell danger for construction industry Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institute of Building
Wholesale canning of EU Laws could spell danger for construction industry
The scrapping of EU laws must be balanced with proper checks and balances.
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
CIOB Reaction to Government’s Developer Remediation Contract announcement
Eddie Tuttle, director of policy, external affairs and research at the Chartered Institute of Building, said:
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
Chartered Institute of Building sets out priorities for next five years
New city centre workspace to disrupt traditional thinking Partner content
Economy
By Home Group
New city centre workspace to disrupt traditional thinking
The doors to the North-East’s most technologically advanced and thought provoking workspace were opened this week in Newcastle city centre.
Infrastructure and urban systems for a net zero, sustainable, resilient and prosperous economy Partner content
Environment
By UKCRIC
Infrastructure and urban systems for a net zero, sustainable, resilient and prosperous economy
We need a systems-based approach that places infrastructure at the heart of a greener UK.
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
CIOB appoints Mike Kagioglou as new Vice President
To solve the housing crisis, plan ahead for materials supply Partner content
Economy
By Mineral Products Association
To solve the housing crisis, plan ahead for materials supply
Michael Gove has returned to Government, and the target of building 300,000 new homes per year by the mid-2020s has returned with him.
Partner content
Economy
By Building Societies Association
Positive affirmation by government of commitment to reduce energy consumption of buildings not yet matched by consumer action
As COP 27 comes to an end, The Building Societies Association welcomes the Chancellor’s positive reaffirmation in the Autumn Statement of the government’s commitment to improving the energy efficiency of buildings and the reduction of energy consumption.
Millions invested to green Cumbrian homes Partner content
Economy
By Home Group
Millions invested to green Cumbrian homes
Work has started to transform 90 homes in Allerdale into some of the most environmentally friendly and efficient homes in the UK.
Double milestone reached for elderly resident plans in Leeds Partner content
Economy
By Home Group
Double milestone reached for elderly resident plans in Leeds
Older people in need of quality homes in Leeds will soon have much greater choice thanks to a double milestone being reached in the city.
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
CIOB comment on new Prime Minister
Eddie Tuttle, Policy, Research and Public Affairs Director at CIOB, said:
Why retrofitting is a “no brainer” for the Government this winter Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institute of Building
Why retrofitting is a “no brainer” for the Government this winter
Last week at Conservative Party Conference, the Chartered Institute of Building partnered with ConservativeHome, the Federation of Master Builders and E3G, for a fringe event discussion about the importance of retrofitting in addressing the climate crisis, keeping down energy bills and improving public health.
Lower Thames Crossing asks leading UK universities to ‘kick the tyres’ of carbon forecasts Partner content
Environment
By UKCRIC
Lower Thames Crossing asks leading UK universities to ‘kick the tyres’ of carbon forecasts
UKCRIC Limited, UKCRIC’s commercial arm for higher technology readiness collaborative projects has been appointed by National Highways to undertake an independent expert review of the Lower Thames Crossing’s carbon forecast.
Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
CIOB comment on new Prime Minister
Caroline Gumble, CEO at CIOB, said:
Lessons learnt during Covid-19 pandemic leave lasting legacy for the construction industry Partner content
Economy
By Chartered Institute of Building
Lessons learnt during Covid-19 pandemic leave lasting legacy for the construction industry