Sustainable Construction 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.

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

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

Whilst the world we live in is changing fast, the houses we live in are not — so, what is the future for UK residential property?

News: New roadbuilding material will repurpose quarry waste in innovative circular construction solution that carries Solar Impulse label.

News: First ever circular economy, carbon net zero, pallet reuse scheme launched to combat major waste problem in UK construction.