UK-based folding bicycle manufacturer Brompton has unveiled plans to build a new factory on stilts on a 100-acre floodplain outside Ashford, Kent.

Our addiction to consumption is causing climate change and putting future generations at risk, warns David Stockdale

VolkerFitzpatrick has completed the first building in the UK to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating under the latest BREEAM ‘New Construction 2018’ guidance.

As the world changes rapidly, the CIOB faces key questions about how to adapt with it, argues David Stockdale.

The UK’s first net zero McDonald’s has just opened in Shropshire, built by a supply chain full of low-carbon innovations. Kristina Smith reports.

Bekir Andrews, environmental sustainability director at Wates Group, explains how he is preparing for a net zero future in his professional and personal life.

New external affairs advisory board chair sets out key policy priorities and calls for member input.

Wates Residential has launched a campaign to find innovative sustainable technologies and materials to help it to build net zero homes.

Mat Malcolm, senior design co-ordinator at Willmott Dixon Interiors, explains how he is preparing for a net zero future.

A festive vegan gingerbread house complete with ‘sustainable’ technologies such as a gingerbread heat pump and solar panels has been created to highlight sustainable retrofitting measures that homeowners can undertake.

Collaboration is key as construction’s efforts to tackle carbon emissions and embrace circularity gather pace. That’s according to prominent figures from across the supply chain, including two tier-one contractors, construction technology group Hilti and hire firm Speedy in a recent round table discussion

Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, according to new research.

Oracle Aconex project management software has secured the BSI Kitemark for BIM software.

Camping out in central London or gluing yourself to the M25 is not the only way to save the planet. Ahead of cop26, Kristina Smith meets construction’s own climate change warriors to find out about their roles in reducing carbon emissions.

Housebuilder Barratt has built a zero-carbon ‘house of the future’ that will be occupied and monitored by academics before the results are shared with the industry.

Balfour Beatty has taken a £375m loan which comes with conditions over how well it performs on a range of sustainability measures.

Willmott Dixon will plant 10,000 trees a year over the next decade and has already identified sites around the country where it will begin the initiative.

Researchers at the University of Bath are investigating how bacteria could be used to create a new type of environmentally friendly plasterboard.