With a raft of regulations and legislation still stuck at consultation stage, Richard Steer FCIOB calls on the government to give construction greater clarity in 2026

Poor-quality installations, weak government oversight and inadequate audit and monitoring have all contributed to failures in the Energy Company Obligation scheme.

A tool that provides the analysis to establish targeted retrofit improvements has been launched following successful testing.

OptimiseAI has launched a tool to help asset owners and managers quickly understand their buildings’ energy consumption and therefore take action to reduce it.

In the first of three pieces ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, Ilaria Fazzini reflects on what’s driving BIM and digital construction in the UK. She is BIM coordinator at studioNWA and the Women in BIM regional lead for London. 

Digital construction experts at Leeds Beckett University (LBU) are working with ARC Building Solutions to create a golden thread to ensure fire prevention products are correctly installed on site.

Urgent action is needed to boost retrofitting energy efficiency measures for homes in Scotland, says the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Fuel bills are still sky-high, another winter is looming and the government is going cold on net zero. CM asked four housing experts what they would change to make our homes more energy efficient.

A British start-up has launched a satellite that can measure the heat output from any building on the planet from orbit.

Featuring a striking canopy structure, the River Ness Hydroelectric generation project is both a geometrically complex build and also a key part of the local infrastructure. Hasson Engineering Solutions needed Trimble’s Tekla Structures to bring the complex vision to life.

The London council of Ealing has appointed McLaren Construction to deliver 188 new homes following the Passivhaus principles.

The Welsh government is showcasing technology to provide solar energy to blocks of flats and wants to encourage developers to install more.

Hydrogen will only have a “specific but limited” role in decarbonising the economy and is “not practically or economically viably” for heating homes in the short or medium term, MPs have concluded.

A 10-year assessment of the performance of one of the UK’s first rural affordable Passivhaus schemes has found that it is still performing as designed.

The UK government sees heat pumps as a key low-carbon energy technology, but they have come in for plenty of criticism. Luke Osborne explains how they work.

A concerted push on retrofitting the UK’s ageing housing stock could help to solve the energy crisis, argues Marek Suchocki.

Robots continue their march: there’s now a robot that can carry out predictive rail maintenance robot.

The government has made £635m more funding available for public sector organisations in England to install low-carbon heating and other energy efficiency measures.