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The Built Environment England Technical Conference in less than two weeks will kickstart the regional series of events and feature a host of impressive speakers, including the recently appointed Deputy Chief Inspector of Buildings Chris Griffin-McTiernan.

BRE has expanded NABERS UK Energy for Offices to include Whole Building and Tenancy ratings.

An amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill was debated by CABE Patron the Earl of Lytton in the House of Lords in April.

The largest retrospective of Norman Foster’s work over the past six decades has opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Keepmoat has launched Hedgehog Highways, a series of 13cm-by-13cm holes included in its developments’ fences as standard, to help hedgehogs pass through with ease.

My year as President comes at a challenging yet exciting time, as the Association has a number of key objectives and ambitions.

The Built Environment England Technical Conference will kickstart the regional series in June and feature a host of impressive speakers, including the recently appointed Deputy Chief Inspector of Buildings Chris Griffin-McTiernan.

English Heritage’s plans to establish 100 wildflower meadows at historic sites to celebrate the King’s coronation have been welcomed by native wildflower seed supplier Bradford Green. “Our ancient meadows drastically declined after WWII.

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The National Federation of Builders (NFB) has hit out at plans for developers to buy nutrient credits for building on protected wildlife sites where pollutants such as nitrogen and phosphorus have leached into rivers, claiming that intensive farming is the real culprit, with fertilisers and animal excrement the main cause of river pollution.

In her capacity as Chair of the International Building Quality Centre Working Group, which has created the Building Products Performance Good Practice Regulatory Framework, Dame Judith Hackitt has spo-ken about the importance of product ID.

Scottish government housing statistics report a 12% fall in new starts in the year to the end of September 2022. There was also a 27% drop in housing association approvals to build new homes.

Richard Smith, Head of Standards, Innovation and Research at National House-Building Council (NHBC) has been installed as the new President of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE).

Laing O’Rourke announced it has switched to low-carbon concrete on all of its new UK projects from April.

In April, the Building Safety Regulator opened its online registration portal to enable owners of higher-risk buildings in England and Wales to submit applications to register their buildings before 01 October 2023. Legal firm Trowers & Hamlins estimates the portal needs to receive more than 70 submissions a day in order to register more than 12,500 higher-risk buildings before the deadline.

In March, the UK government released its revised energy strategy, Powering Up Britain. The revision was in response to the 2022 High Court ruling that the previous plan did not provide enough detail.

St Sidwell’s Point in Exeter is the first leisure and swimming pool complex in the UK to be built to the Passivhaus international building standard. We speak to Joe O’Connell, Senior Project Manager at Kier Group, which oversaw the delivery of the multi-award winning design using sustainable construction technology.

Following the Department of Education (DfE) plans to invest in school buildings in England, Alex Green of the Let’s Go Zero campaign said: “We can’t just be replacing like for like. We need to see robust plans from DfE for future-proofing schools.

Following the Department of Education (DfE) plans to invest in school buildings in England, Alex Green of the Let’s Go Zero campaign said: “We can’t just be replacing like for like. We need to see robust plans from DfE for future-proofing schools.

Scotland has pledged to be net zero by 2045 – five years earlier than England – with both City of Edinburgh Council and Glasgow City Council aiming to be net zero by 2030.