Sustainability

Midgard has been chosen to build a “sustainable” office scheme in the City of London. The project, called Verdant, at 150 Aldersgate Street is located close to Farringdon Elizabeth Line Station and will be 135,000 square foot in size. Eighty per cent of the existing structure on site will be…

Initiatives to reduce the use of plastic in the construction industry are few and far between, and are being hampered by a lack of substitute materials, a report has found. The first report of the Zero Avoidable Packaging waste in construction (ZAP) project said little had been done to reduce…

Local developer Bruntwood Works has lodged an application to build a £93m office tower in Manchester. The 18-storey building, known as The Alberton, will host offices, but also include a pool on its rooftop as part of its vision to combine wellbeing facilities and work spaces. Hot and cold treatment…

A new tool has been launched that allows cost managers to measure the level of embodied carbon associated with projects. The Embodied Carbon Calculator, developed by global professional services company Turner & Townsend, enables cost managers to evaluate the carbon footprint of projects they are working on, from the design…

The government has stepped up its plans to help homeowners improve the energy efficiency of their homes with a pilot project which aims to attract private investment to decarbonising homes. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Carbon Trust and PwC are hosting a market engagement event…

An office being developed in the heart of Media City, Salford, is set to triple in size, according to revised plans. Investment group Peel Media already has planning consent for a 117,000 sq ft office building at the 200-acre mixed-use property development in Greater Manchester. However, the company has now…

A large shopping centre in Bristol will be demolished and replaced with a £550m mixed-use scheme, according to developers’ plans. Proposals published by Bristol developer Deeley Freed, which is working with owners LaSalle Investment Management, reveal that The Galleries shopping centre will be knocked down to make way for offices,…

A panel of construction chiefs and sustainability specialists will hold its first meeting today, as it looks to tackle a “spiral of short-termism” and boost industry skills. The City of London Corporation’s Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce aims to plug gaps in the building sector’s capacity to address the…

Mace’s commercial offices and residential division has completed the redevelopment of its first project without the use of diesel. The central London site on 78 St James’s Street, which is a Grade II-listed property, was formerly used by HSBC Bank as a headquarters but now offers high-quality business facilities and…

L&Q has secured its largest-ever sustainability-linked loan, worth £525m, to build 8,000 homes. The funding, agreed with Lloyds Bank, will be used to deliver more sustainable, affordable housing, as the housing association aims to reduce its scope one and two emissions by 20 per cent by 2024. Half of the…