Regulate embodied carbon or miss net zero targets, auditor warns

Healthy buildings will help entice occupants back to offices – but air quality rules need to be tighter to improve wellbeing, write James Hallworth, senior associate and head of building technology at Workman, and Francesca Brady, co-founder and CEO at AirRated.

New homes, supermarkets, workplaces and buildings undergoing major renovation in England will have to install electric vehicle charge points from 2022, the UK government has announced.

The UK Green Building Council has created a Scottish arm to support and drive the sustainability of the nation’s built environment sector.

The UK government has published the long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy, outlining how the country will decarbonise the built environment.

More than 100 industry leaders – including from CBRE, British Land and Legal & General – have signed a letter urging the government to incorporate a net-zero transition, nature’s recovery and climate resilience at the heart of the UK’s new planning system.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority has authorised the first trial of routine drone flights outside a pilot’s line of sight, which could have significant implications for logistics, construction and retail.

New York City, Denver and Seattle have become the latest US cities to announce plans to limit or ban natural gas connections to buildings.

New York City landlords risk facing more than $10bn of fines per year if they fail to cut carbon...

H&M and Amazon accounted for almost a quarter of data protection and e-privacy fines in Europe last year, as the total amount of penalties issued in 2020 across the region topped €300m.