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Heritage reimagined: Transforming the Brighton Corn Exchange for a Sustainable Future
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from heritage and design experts as they share the story of the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, a Grade I listed building transformed into a vibran...
Net Zero Through Retrofit: Applying the UK NZC Buildings Standard to Your Existing Building Stock
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can the much-heralded UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard be used as a tool to transform your existing buildings and retrofit schemes? This pan...
SKArating: 20 years of quiet leadership
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SKArating is a sustainability assessment methodology that measures the environmental impact of commercial fit-outs and refurbishments. The methodolog...
Data centres take their place in the built environment
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Data centres have seen a massive growth since Covid and in recognition of their importance to economic development have been classified as critical i...
30 Duke Street St James's: London's Largest Steel Reuse Project
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GPE’s 30 Duke Street St James’s (formerly 180 Piccadilly) raises the bar for circular economy applications as London’s largest steel reuse proj...
300 Gray’s Inn Road: Fine-tuned carbon analysis unlocks challenging retrofit
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK built environment has a high proportion of buildings on the verge of becoming stranded assets as environmental targets tighten. The scale of t...
The Principles for Responsible Timber Construction
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Principles for Responsible Timber Construction set out a clear, ambitious, and achievable framework to build trust, align policies, and drive inv...
Healthy Materials
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK has some of the highest use of flame retardants, many of which are toxic to health, in the world. Many of these chemicals show up in building ...
Making reuse happen: Learning from the best of the UK and Europe
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reusing the construction products that arise from refurbishment or demolition offers multiple benefits, such as reduced embodied carbon through the d...
Unlocking the Circular Economy: Navigating Risk, Data & Transparency
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The transition to a circular economy in construction is gaining momentum, but how do we turn ambition into reality? This session explores the process...
Leaving No-one Behind to Create a Resilient UK Construction Supply Chain
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Building a resilient and sustainable construction supply chain is essential for the UK’s economic security and long-term infrastructure goals. Howe...
Clean Heat for commercial buildings
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are the options for commercial buildings not captured in heat networks? Changing the source of heat can be an extremely challenging process for ...
Thirty High: Transforming Assets for the Future 60 Years
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thirty High sets an example for the retrofit of office buildings found in city centre locations across the UK and further afield. By retaining the pr...
Transforming To Zero: Decarbonising Laboratories to Attract Top Tenants
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The growth of the UK's research and innovation sector continues to be a key contributor to the economy. Increased investment in life sciences real ...
Advance Market Commitments: Driving investment in new innovations
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are many innovative low-carbon concretes in development but, even when they are proven in laboratory or small-scale trials, the investment to d...
Facilitating and accelerating the use of lower carbon concretes
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are a growing number of low and lower carbon concretes available on the market, with the potential for cutting the embodied carbon of new devel...
Applying place-based impact investing and meaningful participation
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meaningful participation involves engaging local communities, workers, and stakeholders in decision-making processes, ensuring their voices are heard...
Timber-framed housing: A growing sector
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Timber-framed housing: Growing sector Large housebuilders are partnering with or investing in timber frame manufacturing capacity to develop their ...
Modernist Icon: Refit for the future
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and completed in 1983, the IBM Building is a bold presence in the buzzing cultural playground of the South Bank. Develop...
Digitisation across the Circular Economy: Enabling the supply chain to reuse materials
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Circular Economy in practice is about sequentially looking at what to retain, reuse on site, reuse within a portfolio or reuse elsewhere through trad...
Optimising Building Performance: How can optimisation improve asset value
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s non-domestic building stock is responsible for 23% of operational carbon emissions, posing a significant challenge to net zero targets. En...
Building the New Stone Age
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pierre Bidaud of the Stonemasonry Company will discuss how new ways of thinking aligned to new technologies are changing the way we build in stone. ...
Embedding Just Transition in public procurement: A case study
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The integration of a just transition into public procurement is a crucial step toward achieving both environmental sustainability and social equity. ...
Site Innovation: Is low carbon tech leading the way?
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we’re thinking about emissions in the construction sector, it’s important to address not just what you build, but also how you build it. T...
Future of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) for non-domestic buildings
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards are intended to require incremental improvements to building fabric and services installations in leased accommo...
100 Barbirolli Square: Circularity In Flexible Workspace
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Flexible workspace is an effective solution for growing businesses as their needs evolve, but frequent tenant turnover can lead to increased construc...
Building Partnerships, Funding and Momentum for Retrofit and Net Zero
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for an insightful panel discussion where experts will explore how they are translating net zero carbon and retrofit ambitions into actionable...
Mass Timber: Capturing the opportunity for the mid-rise market
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
CLT buildings up to 18m offer many benefits to developers and end users with extremely low embodied carbon. What factors affect successful outcome...
Holborn Viaduct: Steel innovation and re-use
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Holborn Viaduct is a 14-storey, cutting edge workspace development currently under construction for Royal London Asset Management . An open ap...
The need for a Just Transition in the UK Built Environment
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of a "just transition" in the UK Built Environment is crucial to ensuring that the shift towards sustainability and net-zero carbon emiss...
PACER: Planning Application Carbon Evaluation and Reduction Platform
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When awarding the PACER initiative funding the UKRI declared that ’the majority of the UK’s national emissions budget will be used in the Built E...
From Vision to Precision: Onsite tools to deliver sustainable buildings
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the goal to achieve carbon neutrality across their UK portfolio of projects by 2045, Skanska have developed practical data driven tools that ...
Reuse becomes the norm at 75 London Wall
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The reuse focused strip out has been successfully delivered by KpH, which by the time of conference will have been followed by comprehensive deconstr...
District East: Regenerative landscapes for human interaction
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
District East is an ambitious, nature-led life sciences development in Cambridge. The mission is to attract world-class innovation by designing a mas...
Artus Air and Hilson Moran: Demonstrating the impact of innovation
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Developed as a platform for experimentation and industry collaboration, Hilson Moran's Living Lab in Hays Galleria has been testing new innovations i...
Unlocking Material Reuse: The Value of Collaboration
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Implementing material reuse requires the construction industry to learn new ways of collaborating, pushing boundaries of the traditional project stru...
Let's talk about money: Retrofit needs to be profitable
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Developers face numerous uphill challenges when faced with retrofit. In order to create the conditions that encourage the reuse of buildings, rather ...
Urbanest: Passivhaus Student Living
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Urbanest Battersea is the largest student living building designed to Passivhaus standards in Europe, the largest Passivhaus building in the UK and ...
One North Quay: Europe’s largest new build laboratory
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how the team behind Britain’s first skyscraper lab is working towards achieving ambitious embodied carbon budgets. Currently under constructi...
Retrofit and The Building Safety Act
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore how the Building Safety Act offers an unparalleled opportunity to deliver value and enhance social housing, particularly across the count...
Regenerative places: Net zero benefits the whole community
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For communities to embrace net zero, they need to feel the direct benefits, and trust that the transition will have a positive impact on the places t...
How Circular Economy design drives down carbon in commercial buildings
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The new headquarter for Unusual Rigging achieves a remarkable fusion of deep sustainability and employee wellbeing. Built to rigorous Passivhaus ener...
Brutalist blocks: Providing sustainable investment
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brutalist buildings should be recognised for their potential. Aesthetically and structurally challenging to some, the key to unlocking this potential...
Carving Out Carbon: Lessons From Heritage Retrofit at Scale
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Balancing heritage conservation with carbon reduction is a challenge; one that was met with a pragmatic and intelligent response in the retrofit of ...
How will the UKNZC Buildings Standard influence different stakeholders?
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard is seeking to define what "net zero" really means for buildings and portfolios in the UK. But what will thi...
Net zero technologies and labour exploitation: Getting to the truth
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The widespread adoption of green technologies, including solar energy and other renewable solutions, raises important questions about labour rights a...
A window of opportunity: How circular do you want to go?
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Closed loop recycling of end-of-life building glass rarely happens, with most glass manufacturers declaring less than 1% post-consumer content i...
1 Broadgate: Embedding circularity in a large workplace scheme
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
JLL’s new HQ at 1 Broadgate began with an ambition to radically reduce both embodied and operational carbon, while embedding circularity at the cor...
The future of heat networks
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The heat network sector is undergoing a major transformation. The Government has ambitious plans to grow the sector as a low carbon form of heating a...
Reimagining spaces: The value of vertical extensions
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Explore how vertical extensions can unlock new potential in existing buildings through real-world case studies such as HYLO, the Mary Ward Centre, an...
The Butterfly Effect: Elevating indoor air quality
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Indoor air quality has been proven to impact occupant health and well-being in a wide range of settings. In schools there has been increased attenda...
Leveraging the overlap between Whole Life Carbon Assessments and Scope 3 emissions reporting
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scope 3 emissions reporting can be challenging, but could widespread Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCAs) make the process easier? With a range of in...
Social value: A revival of philanthropy?
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Social value delivers public benefit while tapping into the skillset of the development industry. What place has social value in property? With diffe...
Tools to sequence retrofitting programme across a portfolio
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are growing regulatory and commercial risks associated with older, less energy-efficient buildings. Over 70% of the UK’s commercial stock was...
Retrofit challenge for Life Sciences
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This booming building typology has gone from strength to strength in the last few years, particularly following the pandemic, once everyone's awarenes...
Zero Carbon development embraces the circular economy
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Castleforge’s redevelopment in Golden Lane reimagines a heritage asset at the heart of the city. Sustainability has been a key driver for the cli...
Transformation challenge for Higher Education estates
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buildings and campus identity are a big consideration for students deciding where to study. Frequently new buildings are proposed, with designers se...
Enhancing community through biodiversity improvements
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Communities are coming together to change the places where they live for the better and to develop their skills, build their confidence and make new...
Bringing Nature into the City: The benefits of living with nature
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eden is an 11-storey office building in Manchester with a host of sustainability goals. This session will focus on the benefits of its living wall. Fe...
Investing in Natural Capital: Benefits and challenges
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our economies depend on the resources given to them for ‘free’ by nature and the environment. Construction activities are highly dependent on the...
Exploring Regenerative Construction: Socio-Economic Impacts and Innovations
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Regenerative construction is an approach to planning, design and construction that aims to create sustainable, resilient, and thriving communities. I...
The role of procurement in driving change
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Construction projects have an immense capacity to drive change. As our sector’s interdependency with nature becomes more pronounced, how do we harn...
Green skills: The workforce of the future
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Local Government Association, nearly 700,000 direct jobs could be created in the low-carbon and renewable energy economy in England...
Breakfast Briefing with SRE: Cathedral Hill: A Blueprint for Retrofitting Success
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Achieving a net zero economy by 2050 is a significant challenge for the UK. This Breakfast Briefing will delve into the potential benefits of adopti...
Housing retrofit: How do we deal with aging housing stock?
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK has the oldest housing stock in Europe with up to 40% homes built before 1946. Decarbonisation of the sector is progressing much slower than ...
Optoppen: Appraising your portfolio for vertical extensions in timber
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lightweight timber extensions can achieve large increases of accommodation with lower embodied energy and utilising existing foundations. Engaging a ...
Promoting the positives in timber-framed housing
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Scotland timber-framing accounts for 83% of the market and in England it is 23% and growing (1). Setting out to bust myths around the difficulty o...
Building in Stone: A perpetual virtuous cycle
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From extraction to use, stone is a low environmental impact material. Ready to use, affordable, plentiful and easily adapted for reuse, stone is more...
Breakfast Briefing with White Arkitekter: The role of timber in sustainable city transformation
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Local Government Association, nearly 700,000 direct jobs could be created in the low-carbon and renewable energy economy in England...
Can Regenerative Thinking unlock commercial returns?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a climate of economic insecurity, is regenerative thinking yet another industry buzzword, or can it materialise into meaningful financial, environm...
St Edmund’s Hall: Passivhaus in a heritage context
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A key part of this project’s development was to look carefully at how Passivhaus can be achieved sympathetically within a sensitive historic contex...
Climate change adaptation
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change resilience is therefore a recurring theme within all global new and emerging ESG disclosure frameworks, including the SFDR and EU Taxo...
Breakfast Briefing with Polycor, Albion Stone and Hutton Stone: Mayfield School: Redefining construction norms
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mayfield School's Health & Wellbeing Centre integrates natural materials such as stone and timber in an innovative and sustainable way, with...
3 Sheldon Square: Accelerating low carbon retrofit
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
3 Sheldon Square sits in British Land & GIC's Paddington Central campus, adjacent to Paddington Station. 3 Sheldon Square was originally construc...
The cumulative carbon effect in CAT B fit out
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Late in 2023, a dedicated cross-sector research group was set up to better understand the upfront carbon emissions associated with Cat B Office fit ou...
Facades at the heart of retrofit strategy
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Facades are the skin of a building playing a role in thermal efficiency, daylighting and aesthetics etc. Improving the external envelope of buildings...
Delivering BNG within dense urban environments
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Environment Bill has created obligations for developers that can have unintended consequences, not least the provisions for offsite gain or paymen...
Breakfast Briefing with Modus: How is ESG driving asset performance?
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Real estate businesses, funds and assets with a robust understanding of how to leverage ESG benefits through their activities place themselves at a st...
Xylo: The largest all-timber frame office building in the UK
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Xylo, the largest consented all-timber office building in the UK, is a 9-storey, glulam and CLT framed office building in Clerkenwell. Designed as a k...
Retrofit-first planning policy
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
GLA Whole life carbon and Circular Economy policies have transformed development in London. Councils, such as Westminster City and City of London, hav...
Delivering real estate for Article 8 and 9 funds
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bloom Camberwell is one of the first logistics facilities in the UK able to demonstrate true alignment with the Paris Agreement commitments on clima...
Breakfast Briefing with Willmott Dixon: Early Contractor Involvement: Enhancing Deliverability
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The integration of the contractor within the design team and process is standard practice for some building types and sectors. For decarbonisation pro...
Energy consumption data analysis: Reaping the rewards
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The British Property Federation's recent Towards Net Zero research asked investors, developers, managers, owners and occupiers about the challenges...
Glass: A viable circular commodity
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The majority of construction glass goes to landfill because the industry has not established the knowledge and procedures to divert this precious and ...
Mainstreaming novel regenerative materials: Challenges and solutions
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some novel nature-based materials have been around for millennia but have fallen out of mainstream use, while others are entirely new and innovative. ...
Metropolis: Mass Timber hybrid extension delivering high-value workspace
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Metropolis is the deep retrofit of the Woolworth’s HQ building designed by Richard Seifert. Designed to be net zero in operation the project has als...
UK Retrofit: What can we learn from the US?
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019 New York City adopted a unique piece of legislation called Local Law 97 setting out operational GHG emission limits for all buildings in the c...
Measuring Scope 3 carbon in fit out
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Businesses are being encouraged to monitor and disclose the results of their carbon emissions, despite the absence of a current legal obligation, high...
Concrete: Developments in the supply chain
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are myriad concrete technologies in development around the world, but the majority of these are at the laboratory stage and not ready to deploy....
Building with Nature: An opportunity for construction and society
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The built environment is a net consumer of materials and a major contributor to climate change. Future generations are concerned about how current de...
MMC offsite timber-frame houses delivering on performance, cost, quality and carbon reduction
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Countryside Partnership’s development in Hemel Hempstead will deliver 445 low carbon homes. Spencer’s Park is also being used as a monitoring site...
Portfolio greening through retrofit
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In spite of higher complexity and less financial incentives, a few developers have proven that it is possible to make retrofit a main business model. ...
ESG Investments: A primer
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An increased focus on ESG has given rise to a suite of new regulations, and the financial market is poised to take the lead on climate action in the ...
The UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK NZC Building Standard sets out to provide a methodology by which buildings can be assessed as Net Zero against Science-Based targets to reduce ...
Improving the accuracy of embodied carbon modelling
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carbon calculations rely on accurate data and modelling of the embodied carbon in proposed schemes. Significant decisions about the direction of the...
Timber for Retrofit and Extensions
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Deep retrofit of commercial buildings often aims to increase useable floor area whilst maintain the existing structure. Timber is a lightweight struct...
UK Green Taxonomy: Update and Q&A
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK Green Taxonomy is intended to provide a common framework for investments that can be defined as environmentally sustainable. It is an opportuni...
Commercial Buildings in Timber
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mass timber structure is being used for larger and more ambitious commercial buildings than ever before. In this session we ask what has changed to en...
Breakfast Briefing: The Future is Timber with Built By Nature
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Developers seeking to adopt timber on increasingly large and complex schemes are joining forces with architects devising inventive methods of biobased...
NABERS UK - A Tool for Investors to Drive Improvement in Energy Performance of Buildings in association with Greengage
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NABERS UK is becoming the rating of choice for property owners to measure and improve the energy performance of buildings. A number of industry bodies...