Changes to the world’s leading system for assessing sustainability in the built environment aim to raise the bar even further.

Scottish building materials company Kenoteq has been nominated for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize 2025 after developing a brick made from nearly 100% recycled construction waste.

Plant fibres can increase compressed earth blocks’ strength by 12%, a new study by the University of Portsmouth has found.

Construction professionals committed to sustainability must aim for BREEAM certification in their projects, argues Barrett Harris.

Farrans is targeting zero avoidable waste to landfill by 2030. Victoria Johnston explains the contractor’s approach to ridding projects of plastic waste.

With razor-thin profit margins and rising pressure to cut carbon, construction companies face a critical choice, state Brittany Harris and Jade Cohen of Qflow: chase unstructured sustainability initiatives or unlock far greater gains by improving operational efficiency.

Adopting circular economy principles means changing mindsets and ways of working, but it needn’t be difficult, writes Mott MacDonald’s Tom McDonald.

More than half (53.1%) of housing sector experts have reported gaps in the training and resources available to support implementation of the Procurement Act 2023.

The latest in our series on chartered environmentalists features Peter Turner FCIOB, who has seen attitudes to sustainability evolve considerably over the course of his career.

Straw-based wall systems will be easier to source in the UK after a partnership between sustainable products distributor Ecological Building Systems and a European construction technology startup.

The Department for Education has appointed Mace, Aecom and construction project management firm Barker as the delivery partners for a major project to decarbonise educational settings.

BAM UK & Ireland’s Woodmill High School and St Columba’s RC High School, part of the Dunfermline Learning Campus in Fife, has officially become the largest Passivhaus-certified educational building in the world.

Walter Lilly has completed the first significant refurbishment of Lambeth Palace in over 70 years.

The Natural History Museum’s new Urban Nature Project is a biodiversity scheme like no other – contractor Walter Lilly helped bring it to life.

Why ‘forever chemicals’ are fast becoming a mainstream issue for any contractor involved in demolition, earthworks, or remediation.

In this month’s Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) column, Desiree Blamey looks at how construction project managers can enhance the natural environment at a local level.

Select Plant Hire’s powered access division is investing in nine fully electric and hybrid articulating boom lifts.

Workplace specialist Denton is showing how companies can take their responsible business strategy to the next level.