Channel: Built Environment Archives

Healthy urban living built on Blue Zones science

News: Designed to help residents live longer and happier, new Blue Zones housing in Utrecht to be healthiest neighbourhood in the Netherlands.

News: Fully electric construction helps city of Arnhem fight flood risk on banks of the Rhine, with zero-emissions dyke reinforcement.

Opinion: As certain big brands drop Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Jim McClelland explains why the doubters are wrong: DEI is here to stay.

News: Landmark new wooden building design on Helsinki waterfront will be home to forest industry brand and most sustainable hotel in Finland.

News: Carbon-negative aggregate tested for use in asphalt resurfacing on strategic road network in England, to shrink footprint of highways.

News: Indian city of Varanasi invites innovators around the world to pitch crowd management solutions for ancient spiritual centre of Kashi.

News: In a win for sustainable placemaking, planning permission has been granted for the biggest timber-structure neighbourhood in the UK.

News: Famous London hotel partners with pioneering solar-thermal manufacturer to invest in cutting-edge heat decarbonisation technology.

News: For construction, the development of a new US protocol for low-carbon cement marks a key step down the road towards decarbonisation.

Opinion: As an electioneering UK Prime Minister guns down green policy, Jim McClelland asks: Will Net Zero survive this ballot-box battle?