All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles
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NewsBurnham refuses to back Heathrow airport expansion
Prime minister said £49bn scheme was a ‘matter for Londoners’ as airport claims work could be delayed by four years
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NewsCostain appointed to build RSHP’s transformation of South Kensington tube station
Enabling work to start this autumn
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CommentCapture carbon before it caps construction
The construction industry should get behind carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) as pressure mounts to reindustrialise and ramp up delivery while cutting emissions at the same time, says the Mineral Products Association’s Martin Casey
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 37: Market update and guidance on fire protection responsibilities
A look at cost and carbon
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CommentBurnham-inspired regional leadership must keep net zero moving
Louis Saunderson argues that regional leaders must continue advancing sustainability regardless of political turbulence
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 36: Market update and guidance on carbon border taxes
A look at cost and carbon
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FeaturesPassivhaus pioneers revisit the standard 16 years on
The team behind the UK’s first cavity wall Passivhaus are now building a terrace of three Passivhaus Plus homes in West Yorkshire. Bill Butcher and Chris Herring of 21 Degrees share what has changed — and what they wish they’d known first time around
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FeaturesPublic buildings in the UK are not built for frequent heatwaves - what will it take to fix them?
Last week showed that schools, hospitals and care homes are ill-equipped to protect their vulnerable occupants from sustained hot weather. What needs to be done to upgrade these estates as temperatures continue to climb?
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NewsSlowing heat pump installations putting UK at risk of energy shocks, climate watchdog warns
Chris Williamson says report is a ‘wake-up call to act’
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CommentTackling viability. How does the industry do better?
Current market conditions make it more vital than ever to be on top of a project’s build costs to ensure its commercial success, writes Iain Parker
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CommentConstruction won’t fix productivity just by trying harder. It will fix it by building differently
Industrialised construction through standardised systems and platform solutions can double productivity but only if the industry adopts fairer commercial models, says Mark Reynolds
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FeaturesMaking Senze: How sophisticated energy monitoring can cut social housing retrofit costs by 75%
Technology firm Senze has shown live home monitoring can cut retrofit costs by targeting improvements more accurately than flawed EPC assessments, raising questions over the government’s fabric-first funding model for social housing decarbonisation, Thomas Lane reports
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CommentEnergy security remains one of the UK’s key priorities
The UK government’s hopes of regeneration-led initiatives to revive the economy will be seriously hampered without proper energy security. Upgrading transmission and distribution networks is now essential, writes John Wilkinson
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SponsoredHeat network costs in an evolving environment: politics, legislation and design
Heat networks are long-horizon infrastructure, with paybacks measured in decades. That makes political stability and what happens in Westminster, and in Ofgem’s offices, matter enormously in terms of what gets built on site, writes Richard Murray, director, Drees & Sommer UK
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FeaturesInfrastructure update: The influence of private finance on delivery mechanisms
Renewed interest in PPP for government-funded projects highlights the critical role that private capital plays in the creation and operation of the UK’s infrastructure
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FeaturesSustainability: How lifecycle costs vary by sector and scale
The cost of maintaining and replacing assets is a growing priority for building owners, but how do sector and building scale influence those costs?
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NewsWork to revamp Unilever’s listed City headquarters gets green light
KPF aiming to transform buiding with all-electric scheme aiming to ‘attract new generation’ of occupiers
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NewsBDP and BAM complete transformation of Digbeth’s Typhoo building as new BBC base
BBC to complete internal fit out of Birmingham building ahead of planned opening in 2027
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In partnershipFrom ambition to delivery: inside the inaugural Dublin Regenerative Cities Summit
On Earth Day, senior leaders from across the built environment gathered in Dublin to confront a more urgent question than ever before: not whether cities should regenerate, but how the industry can move faster — and together — to deliver it.
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NewsRetrofit firm under SFO investigation ‘completely refutes’ fraud allegations
JJ Crump said all work carried out under failed ECO 4 scheme was ‘carried out in good faith’