Zero Carbon Business Partnership to Help UK SMEs work towards net zero

Aiming at helping UK SMEs access the education, expertise and opportunities for collaboration needed to meet or better the UK’s 2050 net-zero target, the Federation of Small Businesses, British Chambers of Commerce, British Retail Consortium and Make UK have joined forces to create the Zero Carbon Business Partnership, a recent news report has been able […]

Most new homes in England offer higher energy efficiency, government figures reveal

The majority of new homes in England are in the most energy efficient bands, the latest figures released by the UK Government’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government have been able to reveal. In the last quarter 84% of new homes across the country were given an energy rating of A or B, compared […]

Energy Monitoring Systems to Help Drive Forward the Development of Smart Cities

Energy monitoring systems will help drive forward the development of smart buildings and cities across the world, which is an extremely important trend considering the fact that urbanisation is on the rise in every continent and figures set to climb close to 70% by 2050. In fact, the demand for buildings and cities to become […]

Almost a third of households waste energy by leaving the heating on, research report finds

Close to 26% of UK households waste energy by leaving the heating on within their homes even when they are unoccupied, a recent market research report has been able to suggest. The research commissioned by OnePoll amongst 2,000 adults also found that almost 26% of consumers keep the heating on when there is no one […]

Building Management Systems – The Perfect Companions for Modular Buildings and Hospitals

Building management systems are the perfect solutions to help optimize energy use in hospital environments, and they’re especially efficient when installed from the earliest stages of construction or on the assembly line for modular buildings. In fact, this is exactly the case with a recent £9.8m project for Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation […]

UK Government reveals ambitious Industrial Decarbonization Strategy

The Industrial Decarbonization Strategy, published March 17, is part of the UK’s ambition to effectively eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy allocated more than 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) to projects that can help drive down emissions in hospitals and schools, as well as factories. The launch […]

Public buildings in Newcastle to undergo massive decarbonisation project

Schools, libraries, leisure centres and cultural venues like the Theatre Royal in Newcastle will soon get a green revamp after the local authority secured £27.5 million in funding to decarbonise them, a recent news report in the local media has been able to suggest. The scheme is predicted to remove up to 4,050 tonnes of […]

Building Management Systems Can Have a Major Impact on Reducing Energy Demand

According to recent estimates, 68% of the world’s population is likely to live in cities by 2050. As a direct consequence, world energy demand is set to increase by more than 50 percent by 2050, according to predictions by the US Energy Information Administration – resulting in even higher energy consumption. While an increasingly higher […]

Building Management Systems can Help Hospitals Become More Environmentally Efficient

Building management systems that carefully control all HVAC, lighting and heating systems within a building can help hospitals become a lot more energy efficient. And one of the latest examples of such a deployment comes from Gloucestershire, where the region’s largest hospitals have received £13.7million funding for a range of energy-efficiency projects. Aimed at hitting […]