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UK’s Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard coalition call for evidence: the NZCBS cross-industry team is calling on practitioners from the built environment industry to supply operational energy and embodied carbon performance data for their buildings
Net Zero carbon buildings news: World Green Building Council launches GRESB, the leading global sustainability benchmark for real estate portfolios, to recognise companies that make a Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment.
Why green rooftops should become the new normal for cities: Strelka KB study, carried out during the COVID-19 lockdown, shows that greening strategies have multiple positive effects
Four mayors from leading world cities including Oslo, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Budapest have pledged to halve emissions from all construction activities by 2030.
BE_Design proudly presents the Komera Leadership Center, a facility in the rural eastern province of Rwanda, Africa, providing health, education, and mentorship programs for young women, and a place for family development initiatives and community gatherings
Skylab: The Nature of Buildings (Thames & Hudson, 2023). The new book is the first monograph on the practice that’s emerged as a leading creative force in the Pacific Northwest and North America at the vanguard of innovative and sustainable design.
Tonkin Liu’s Solar Gate in Kingston upon Hull, England, is a sundial that uses solar alignment to mark significant times and dates in Hull. The super-light innovative two-shell structure is place-specific, responding to pivotal historic events
Climate and Biodiversity Emergency declared by leading UK landscape architects: they call on landscape architecture firms around the world to act in response to climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.
Design by Foster + Partners for The Forestias, highlighted by a 48,000 square metre urban forest at the centre which connects all developments within the site, aims to create a healthier and happier living environment for all residents
BRE Renationalisation proposed by the Fire Brigades Union – privatisation of the Building Research Establishment ‘exposed as a disastrous decision, opening the testing regime to commercial pressures’
Café 4P’s Coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City interior design by Semba Vietnam. Sustainable construction methods – limited glue or nails, can be relocated and reused, reduced waste
Sara Cultural Centre building design by White Arkitekter in Skellefteå, northern Sweden, wins an architecture award at Holcim Awards 2021: contains Wood Hotel in Lapland
Kigali Green City Project in Rwanda, by East Africa planning, design, architecture and engineering practice FBW Group, to feature renewable energy, rainwater harvesting, wastewater management, recycling and reuse of water and sustainable transport solutions
Lightbox 23 was designed by Steelhead Architecture. Many custom home projects have achieved the net zero status but very few developers have committed to this level of high performance construction.
English woodlands construction resource: a consortium of experts in timber construction and engineering is exploring ways to boost the use of English hardwood forest products across the built environment
