All Net zero articles
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Q&A: BRE aims to align in-use and built-in carbon measures
Senior product manager Jennifer Dudley discusses the latest update to the BREEAM sustainability standard.
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Insight
Savills’ Richard Rees on why delivering energy infrastructure is increasingly important
A strong national infrastructure system has many facets, from providing comprehensive education, social care and healthcare to keep people happy and healthy through to delivering roads, water and energy to support the functioning of society and economic growth.
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Savills calls for lenders to be ‘bold’ in helping unviable assets towards net zero
Lenders have been urged to take control of commercial assets to aid environmental refurbishments in the secondary markets as prime assets look set to leave them behind
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Consultation opens on major update to BREEAM sustainability assessment
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) has launched a consultation on a major update to its sustainability assessment method, BREEAM.
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UKREiiF: Urgent clarity needed for thresholds, timescales and monitoring to reach net zero
Experts have agreed that urgent clarity is needed on when minimum standards are going to come into force for environmental legislation as the net zero target edges nearer.
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Insight
Alastair Stewart on the futureproofing of new housing developments
Snow in May – even if it is in Manchester? Except the artificially produced flurry is not at the northern capital’s indoor ski slope but from a housing research project trying to preserve the future of the natural white stuff.
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Professional
Sustainability drives global demand for greener offices
ESG-led schemes now command a premium of between 25% and 35% over other real estate investments
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Professional
Low-carbon retrofit: embrace the journey into the unknown
It is vital to keep pace with the issues that can arise during the complex task of reviving existing buildings
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Markets
Ports up their green credentials
Shipping set to play bigger role as UK reduces reliance on air and road freight.
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News
Good eggs vs bad apples
The most recent annual report issued by the Confederation of British Industry, for the year ending 31 December 2021, set out the principal risks faced by the CBI at the time.
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Insight
Webb Yates Engineers’ Elisa Sartori on why inaction on carbon emissions will have a high cost
The government’s 2050 net zero strategy, corporate environmental, social and governance (ESG) targets and the 2025 Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) regulations on leased buildings are all working in sync to nudge those who own and occupy commercial buildings to think carefully about their decarbonisation roadmap.
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FORE Partnership’s Basil Demeroutis on the tyranny of incrementalism
What is holding our industry back from making the critical changes needed to decarbonise? The kind of durable, dramatic, systemic change that acknowledges the significant role we play as protagonists in the climate crisis and makes amends for our responsibility in creating it.
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Together partners with Inspired to bolster net-zero plans
Property finance company Together has signed a three-year agreement with energy and sustainability consultancy Inspired as part of its campaign to reduce emissions to net zero.
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Insight
Collaboration key in decarbonisation
Editor: I read with interest your recent article ‘Industry urges lease shake-up’ and wholeheartedly agree that urgent action is needed to make renting commercial property easier and cheaper.
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Insight
Charging drive is vital for EV uptake
The government’s recent commitment to £380m of investment in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure as part of its net zero policy package is a welcome shift in focus. But let’s not kid ourselves that this is enough to power an EV revolution. Without a widespread upgrade of the country’s charging ...
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Property sector slams government’s net zero plans
Leading industry figures have warned the government’s plans for reaching net zero, as detailed in the report Powering up Britain, are not ambitious enough to meet the challenge of decarbonisation.
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Insight
Burges Salmon’s Jack Mitchell on the rise of sustainable finance in the hotel sector
Given the built environment’s contribution both to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, lenders that fund real estate projects have found themselves under pressure from governing bodies to show evidence that they are paving the way to a sustainable way of living.
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Insight
Biodiversity Net Gain transition period is ending November 2023: What are the options and are you ready?
The need to prepare for the biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirement is coming into force officially this November. Business development director for Environment Bank, Helen Wyman says, time is of the essence for developers to start planning their BNG strategy now to ensure the financial viability and successful delivery of ...
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TopHat and Man GPM sign £50m deal for East Sussex modular resi scheme
Modular housebuilder TopHat has agreed a £50m development deal with Man GPM, the private markets business group of Man Group, to develop 226 zero-carbon homes in Lewes, East Sussex.
