Healthy Buildings

Plant-Based Places: Emerging Products and Principles
Glass building with trees and sunlight

Plant-Based Places: Emerging Products and Principles

The rise of ESG and net zero carbon has greatly increased our industry’s appetite for innovation and new thinking. After three decades of relative stability (characterised by green building certifications and regulations) there is now an emerging drive to deliver buildings that better appeal to a wider, more sustainably savvy audience.

Richard Francis

By Richard Francis

Existing Buildings and Carbon Performance: Managing the Opportunities.
Tall buildings with trees

Existing Buildings and Carbon Performance: Managing the Opportunities.

Much of the current discussion around net zero carbon tends to focus on new buildings. It involves questions of how to lower embodied carbon, incorporate new materials, integrate on-site renewables and so on. These issues are certainly important and need answers, but they can also obscure the importance of existing buildings.

Richard Francis

By Richard Francis