Revisiting the iconic Edge building eight years on

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.

Rather than pour money into expensive, sophisticated tech, The Future Works took an “organic approach” with strong design fundamentals to achieve superb air quality.

Rethinking construction from the ground up, developer Landsec and its partners are building the first offices to meet the UKGBC’s definition of net zero.

Homes face huge price discrepancies – in some cases as high as six figures – due to the industry’s historically shaky spatial data. In the absence of policy to fix that, real estate has to turn to tech.

Supporting scientists measuring everything from glacier movements to volcanic activity, the AGU pledged to put the environment at the heart of its HQ renovation. The result? Washington DC’s first net zero office retrofit.

PassiveLogic’s mission is to create a suite of generative design tools that sit on top of digital twins to revolutionise the way we plan, install, and operate controlled systems in the built environment.

Autodesk stifles architects’ potential by forcing them to use decades-old software at soaring prices, an open letter from industry bodies across the Nordics has said.

“If we’re going to make progress, we have to have a system that recognises greatness,” the co-founder of Smart Building Certification said at the Sustainable Places conference in Nice, France.

The modular homes platform brings design, costing and programming into one place along with supply chain to enable developers to build modular homes without needing a factory.