Equity investors seek to enhance their properties’ long-term value. Simultaneously, their mortgage lenders are interested in reducing risk
Have you ever imagined yourself becoming a local energy provider selling the energy surplus, generated by your rooftop solar system, to your neighbours or businesses? And get paid in Bitcoin?
Marks & Spencer (M&S), the major British multinational retailer, completed the UK’s largest rooftop solar panel installation on its distribution centre in Castle Donington.
Dame Zaha Hadid, the globally acclaimed Iraqi-British architect known for her visionary and highly experimental curvilinear buildings died on Thursday 31st March aged 65.
Reimagine one of the New York City’s most remarkable landmark and win a $15,000 cash prize. In connection to Architecture 2030 Challenge the Metals in Construction magazine launches a very interesting architectural ideas competition asking you to rethink the retrofitting of existing buildings in a sustainable matter.
Arup appoints new leadership as firm expands in the Americas: Andy Howard named Chairman and Leo Argiris named Chief Operating Officer.
$48M to built enegy microgrids in NY. In the near future, the New York local energy market may be disrupted by a number of community-based energy microgrids that allows peer-to-peer energy sharing without the involvement of a large utility company.
Al Gore has launched a scathing attack on David Cameron for ditching a series of environmental measures since winning reelection in May.
Brewhouse No. 4 is carbon neutral and has achieved zero waste to landfill status for both its construction and ongoing operation.
A large number of building professionals and LEED experts recently gathered in Columbia’s capital to attend CONSTRUVERDE, the annual conference of Colombia GBC, or El Consejo Colombiano de Construcción Sostenible.
Pope Francis said it is his “prayerful hope that, as stewards of the world’s finances, you will agree upon a common plan that accords with climate science, the latest in clean energy engineering, and above all the ethics of human dignity”.
What’s exciting about the Greenbuild Euromed? Explained by Rick Fedrizzi
Google has recently unveiled its new tool, Project Sunroof, which is aimed at encouraging people to install solar technologies in their homes.
Lord Norman Foster has recently named for the Louis Kahn Memorial Award at a ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia.
The building and construction sectors have been identified as one of the major contributors to global environmental impact due to their high energy consumption
What will be your next investment or leasing opportunity? Could it be office, industrial and retail properties, as well as specialized spaces for multifamily or healthcare?
