Strategies For Meeting The Future Homes Standard
The Future Homes Standard aims to cut carbon emissions from new UK homes by 75-80% by 2025. This white paper explores industry readiness, challenges, and progress toward net-zero 2050 goals.
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Revisiting Fire Safety & Project Accountability
The Grenfell tragedy catalysed fire safety reforms, emphasising accountability and risk management. This whitepaper revisits architects' evolving roles and adaptation to stricter regulations, comparing perspectives to assess ongoing industry transformation.
Principles for Adaptive Reuse Projects
Adaptive reuse repurposes existing buildings, preserving materials and enhancing sustainability. This white paper reveals architects' appreciation for its creative potential and regenerative impact, despite design challenges in meeting modern performance…
The Changing Face of Product Certification
Driven by the post-Grenfell Hackitt Report and Building Safety Act, our white paper discovers architects' perspectives on evolving product certification, focusing on safety, performance, sustainability, and third-party testing in construction.
Enhancing Fire Safety in Social Housing
Fire safety remains crucial and despite regulatory improvements, gaps persist in compliance and understanding among housing professionals, risking lives. Our latest white paper highlights the need to address these critical…
The Decarbonisation of Social Housing: Part 2
Despite £6 billion allocated for housing energy efficiency, slow progress, political instability, and widespread fuel poverty persist. Our latest white paper highlights the urgent need for effective decarbonisation strategies.
A Year On: Progress on Parts L, F & O
A year on from the upgrades to Parts L & F of the Building Regulations and the inclusion of Part our Industry Viewfinder discovers how architects are meeting changes.
The Social Housing Act: Empowering Tenants
Landlords have a duty to ensure tenants live in safe homes, free from potentially deadly hazards. Our Industry Viewfinder delves into the implications of the Social Housing Act.
A Year On: Revisiting Changes to Part F & Part L
Discovering housebuilders awareness of (and approaches to) the updated Part L, Part F & Part O have improved a year on from their inception and the answers they need.
Committing to a Low Carbon Journey
With many self-builders focused on reducing their carbon footprint as well as their outgoings, our survey discovered how they are pursuing truly sustainable homes, even to ‘zero carbon’ levels.
Approaches to Water Efficiency in New Homes
Investigating how housebuilders are approaching current water efficiency standards, their views on those standards, and how product solutions are helping.
Revisiting the Approach to Fire Safety in Social Housing
Grenfell Tower was sadly not an isolated example of poor management, as revealed by our latest white paper into safety approaches.