Channel: Built Environment Archives

Be honest, do we even want AI to be sustainable?

Opinion: With AI on the lips of everyone from King Charles to Erin Brockovich, Jim McClelland roots for sustainability in a data centre boom.

Opinion: Analysing new labour market data, Jim McClelland challenges the UK construction industry to face the facts, all two million of them.

Guest Blog by Jane Marsh: How energy codes standardise sustainability as the metrics of success for green building in industrial real estate.

News: Study into sustainable materials finds new uses for ingredient more often associated with baking and brewing, than architecture – yeast.

Guest Blog by Jane Marsh: Why organisations should not ignore effects of rising nighttime heat on employee performance, health and wellbeing.

Guest Blog by Jane Marsh: As bats become more at home in the urban environment, what does this mean for business and the built environment?

Guest Blog by Jane Marsh: When you follow the money in construction waste, can outsourcing solutions make economic sense for sustainability?

News: Sustainability of government buildings overseas is important — which is why it matters that the Swiss Embassy in China has gone solar.

Opinion: With the date set for the Budget and the Chancellor in need of a win, Jim McClelland asks: Is this the wrong time to ‘park the bus’?

News: Five innovators from around the world compete in $3M city challenge to help spiritual heart of Varanasi, India, with crowd management.