Carbon emissions

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has published its Seventh Carbon Budget report, which features ambitious home energy targets.

The Society for the Environment’s Awards 2025 will be hosted in Liverpool on 4 June, the eve of World Environment Day.

Burton and South Derbyshire College has launched its Green Skills Centre to drive sustainability in construction and support decarbonisation. The centre offers specialist training in renewable energy and retrofit technologies.

House by house, building by building, retrofit is still being approached as a piecemeal solution to the climate crisis. Denise Chevin asks, how can it be scaled up?

It’s easy to talk about retrofit, but what are you doing about it? ‘Plenty,’ says CABE. Take a look at the modernisation of CABE HQ

We all know where good intentions can lead, but what happens when energy-efficient retrofit solutions are undone by human behaviour, asks Matt Lamy?

Few projects are likely to face as much scrutiny as the retrofit of a national retrofit centre, and Gavin Johnston of BE-ST is counting on it.

The government in Westminster has announced that it plans to invest in green skills training to support a transition to clean power with “thousands” of new jobs.

Empty and underperforming buildings throughout the UK are untapped economic and social assets, and Don’t Waste Buildings has decided it is time to get serious about their reuse.

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Denise Chevin takes a closer look at one of the Institution of Structural Engineers Award winners, the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture