Environment

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.

Acting Minister for Climate Action Alasdair Allan told the Scottish Parliament last week that the revised legislation will include powers to set minimum energy efficiency standards for owner-occupier and non-domestic properties.

Construction Industry Council and the Edge, a built environment think tank, have published the Competence Framework for Sustainability in the Built Environment to underpin the development of discipline-specific, sustainability competence requirements across the built environment and the natural sector.

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?

The City of London Corporation has approved a £191m funding package to support critical repairs and upgrades at the Barbican Centre.

Nominations are now open for the SocEnv Awards 2025.

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

Retrofitting UK homes is a win-win, so why is it all taking so long to happen? It’s complicated, says Nick Warburton.

In 2022, the governments in England, Scotland and Wales and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland jointly consulted on the introduction of mandatory digital waste tracking across the UK.

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

Heat pumps are playing an increasingly important role in both new build and retrofit sectors – Charlotte Lee, Chief Executive of the Heat Pump Association (HPA), demystifies a few things.

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.

With not long left until the government’s new Simpler Recycling reforms are implemented, statistics from commercial waste collection service Business Waste suggest that 99% of businesses are unprepared for the rule changes.

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.

Leeds Beckett University, the University of Salford and Loughborough University have been leading research into retrofitting best practice on tricky old housing stock.

Jake Dowling, Head of Decarbonisation at Seddon Property Services, considers the cost of doing nothing about retrofit skills

The Pallet Loop has been shortlisted in the 2025 edie Awards.

What happens when an engineering apprentice identifies energy and cost savings for a company as part of their placement?