Environmental Product Declarations are a powerful tool for architects to use at the heart of design and specification, and not just as a tick-box exercise for obtaining sustainability certificates for…
Passivhaus is more than just a sustainability best practice certification. It’s also a ready-made system of science-based quality assurance which could be harnessed to solve many of construction’s recent ills.…
Construction polymath Sam Stacey (his CV ranges from key roles at Buro Happold, Wates and Skanska to running the Theresa May Government’s Transforming Construction Challenge) is on a mission to…
Andrew Carpenter, chief executive of the STA, discusses how the construction industry is tackling the obstacles behind the Government’s roadmap for increasing the use of timber.
Nick Haughton, Head of ESG at Sapphire Balconies looks at why competency has become the current industry buzzword for the new more robust specification framework post-Building Safety Act
Revisiting the key area of offsite construction for tackling the industry challenges, this Industry Viewfinder reveals how perceptions and approaches have changed since 2021.