Built Environment

New environmental benchmarking tool will help businesses gauge performance and set improvement targets
News

New

yesterday — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
The Better Buildings Partnership and Jones Lang LaSalle have teamed up to provide owners and occupiers of commercial properties with a benchmarking tool for comparing …
Practical Law Company legal update: Payments for ecosystem services
Legal document

4 June — added by Sara Feijao, Practical Law Company
On 22 May 2013, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) published a best practice guide and an action plan on payments for ecosystem services …
How relevant is the Green Deal to the commercial sector?
Discussion

24 May — started by Geoff Archer, Westminster Sustainable Business Forum
How relevant is the government’s Green Deal policy to the non-domestic sector, particularly to different sectors such as SMEs, retailers, larger companies, office renovation …
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Saving money with energy efficiency upgrades
Infographic

2 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
The launch of the Green Deal has led more and more people to look at making environmentally-friendly improvements to their homes. MoneySupermarket explores the potential …
Free EPD event
Document

31 May — added by sandy smith, PE International
On the 3rd July, in London PE International are running an EPD event with the Alliance of Sustainable Building Products, UCL and BRE. It FREE and has a fantasic line up!! See …
Green construction: Low tech high tech fusion issue in sustainability
Link

24 May — added by Tom Robinson, Carillion Plc
Amanda Birch takes a look at how local people helped build a sustainable community centre in the deprived north London neighbourhood of Tottenham in a project that married …
Carillion’s energy-saving drive to shave £10m off bottom line this year
News

23 May — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Construction business Carillion has saved £10m in the last 12 months thanks to its efforts to reduce energy consumption, according to the company’s chief executive Richard …
Daylight: It's free but that doesn't mean we should ignore it
Blog post

22 May — written by Rory Bergin, HTA Sustainability & Innovation
The levels of daylight in a building can have a significant impact on the energy needed for artificial lighting. But it also delivers health and wellbeing benefits that …
Tenanted shopping center retailers ‘failing to address green issues’
News

16 May — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Retailers situated in the UK’s shopping centers are less interested in tackling sustainability issues than their counterparts located elsewhere because they are …
How the Enterprise Centre aims to achieve Passivhaus certification
Project diary

17 May — written by Benedict Binns, Centre for the Built Environment
In our series following the construction of the Enterprise Centre, the project team discuss the design with Professor Wolfgang Feist, founder of the Passivhaus …