Sustainable Construction Archives

Baker’s yeast on rise in architecture and interiors

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: When you follow the money in construction waste, can outsourcing solutions make economic sense for sustainability?

News: Construction manufacturers are failing to meet specifier demand for better sustainability data, hindering project progress on net zero.

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?