Sustainability

There are times when nature appears to stand in the way of much-needed housing and infrastructure development.

It’s certainly been a while since a prime minister made a speech about energy use in buildings.

The most widely used man-made material on Earth is undergoing a renaissance in the understanding of its whole-life carbon benefits.

Can recycling in construction be taken so far that materials are endlessly reused in a circular economy? The co-founders of a new start-up think so – and the government agrees with them.

This year marked 10 years since the launch of the UK Green Building Council, a milestone in the development of sustainable practice in UK construction. So how well is the industry performing on sustainability, what does it do well and – most importantly – what is still left to do?