End ‘wasteful’ Cat-A fitouts, BCO urges landlords

A little over half a year since launching its APAC business in Singapore, the digital connectivity ratings business has opened a second regional office in Hong Kong.

The company’s 340-year-old UK real estate business has put innovation at the heart of its strategy, launching an alternative investment team to pursue ideas to help transform its largely historical portfolio.

Warrington, a town in the northwest of England, teamed up with climate tech experts at IES to model the cost of retrofitting the city’s buildings and help it achieve its net zero targets.

Launched in Australia and gaining traction in the UK, NABERS keeps buildings accountable for the energy they use every day. Amrita Dasgupta Shekhar, associate at Greengage, explains what you need to know about the certification.

Developer Quintain is behind nearly half of all residential buildings that have attained the highest connectivity rating anywhere in the world.

The £31m Ev0 will be built at Didsbury Technology Park and feature a timber frame among its carbon-saving technologies. 

JLL has modelled an over 70% reduction in energy use in some office refurbishments, highlighting the major role retrofits must play in decarbonisation.

What would you do differently if you had to design The Edge, arguably the world’s most recognisable smart building, today? If you’re anything like the project’s own developers, almost everything.

The number of real estate portfolios benchmarking sustainability with GRESB has risen faster than ever before in the last year, providing a clearer picture of progress in the industry.

From Grosvenor to the US government, organisations are buying into the need for recording and capturing developments from start to finish.

Anastasia Stella at Waterman explains how tracking components will unlock circularity in real estate, enabling the industry to recycle or reuse whatever goes into a building.