What you need to know. Government standards for sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) now make Rainwater Harvesting compulsory for virtually all developments in England. The new standards, released in June 2025, can be found by CLICKING HERE. Why has Rainwater Harvesting been prioritised? Our changing climate and increase in population means our water network
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Challenges and Opportunities in Commercial Retrofit
Explore key insights from UKGBC's Non-Domestic Retrofit forum. If the most sustainable building is one that already exists, they why is retrofitting a building still so challenging? This is the central question that the UKGBC Non-Domestic Retrofit Forum has sought to answer through a series of meetings and workshops over the last
UK must embrace timber construction to meet climate and housing goals, say industry leaders
Built environment leaders delivered a unified message – ‘timber can meet climate and housing goals now’ – at the recent UK Timber Design Conference in London. Sustainable developers, architects, engineers and construction experts are calling on the Government to supercharge its housing goals by backing timber in construction – fully recognising
Oxford heat network has potential to decarbonise UK’s most iconic buildings with GHNF support
HOME to one of the world’s most prestigious collegiate research universities, the Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) is supporting a low carbon heat network scheme in Oxford that will decarbonise public sector buildings across the city. 1Energy has secured almost £22 million from the GHNF for a heat network powered by 20MW of