Corporate Knights

JUNE 14, 2022

Last fall, the Daily Mail disclosed the harsh conclusions of a British housing economist who debunked the national government’s “energy performance certificates” (EPCs) – a rating system for commercial or residential buildings that are being developed, sold or rented. Just 12 years ago, a New York developer erected a US$1.8-billion

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The grant from the APC’s latest collaborative research and development funding round will provide support to an innovative research project aimed at creating the requirements for a world leading metals processing facility, which has been spearheaded by sustainable materials firm EMR.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Early in the design process, an HGA structural analysis estimated that a timber frame system would reduce the buildings’ embodied carbon footprint by approximately 75 percent when compared to a traditional steel structure.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

We need agreed carbon data measuring if we are to break the cycle of short-term solutions resulting from short timescales, short political cycles, and reactive solutions. Developing a shared understanding of the sector’s share of the UK carbon budget. Put simply, the will is there but the tools are not.”.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 24, 2024

Officials from the India Meteorological Department attributed the length of the unrelenting heat wave, ironically, to what is commonly seen as a marker of urban “development”: a boom in (heat-trapping) high-rises. R icha Narvekar is an independent academic and architectural designer based out of Toronto and Goa, India.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

During the launch phase of the program, IWBI is partnering with leading architects, builders, developers, operators and owners - such as Assembly OSM - to transform the global residential market to make healthier and more resilient homes more accessible to more people in more places.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Green Bond proceeds require achieving a minimum 20% reduction in upfront carbon emissions through the adaptive reuse of existing buildings (i.e., avoiding demolition and construction) where appropriate, and the use of low embodied carbon construction practices in major refurbishments and new construction.

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