Sustainability

A local authority has partnered with Duraproducts to trial its recycled plastic kerbing for both durability and safety purposes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

SocEnv defines the standards for professional competence in environmental practice, ensuring key decisions are made by verified professionals.

The 17th Sustainability in Energy & Buildings (SEB’25) International Conference on 17-19 September 2025, organised by KES International, has put a call out for short and full papers.

Why has Shanghai created hills in the city as part of a mega-project for locals, asks Matt Lamy?