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Green building

July 2024

  • Overhead view of the electric arc furnace facility

    Steelmakers fire up to swap centuries-old reliance on coal for electric arc furnaces

    As Tata Steel and British Steel close their polluting blast furnaces, will Labour get behind the switch to more energy-efficient technology – and secure jobs?

June 2024

  • Illustrated collage showing school children walking and playing in a green space surrounded by big flowers and cherubs playing trumpets

    Green space could be even better for young brains than we realised

    Science on specific benefits for children’s behaviour and thinking is catching up with established wellbeing claims

May 2024

  • Two male bricklayers working on the wall of a new-build house

    UK importing more bricks than ever and carbon cost is rising, study reveals

  • Rooftop with path running through wildflowers and wild plants

    The alternatives
    ‘On every roof something is possible’: how sponge cities could change the way we handle rain

April 2024

  • Men standing on a platform lowering a wall panel

    America's dirty divide
    ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes

    Minnesota’s Lower Sioux Indian Community is pioneering green building with its fully integrated hempcrete facility – a first in the country

January 2024

  • Residents of Cannock Mill gather on the metal steps up to part of the development.

    The commune
    ‘We just held hands and jumped!’ How one of Britain’s happiest, healthiest communes was built

    It took 13 years of dreaming, peril and hard graft before the first residents moved into Cannock Mill – an eco-village that tackles both the climate crisis and loneliness

December 2023

  • Stephen Cherry, the dean of chapel at King’s College, Cambridge, views the installation of 438 photovoltaic solar panels on the recently restored roof.

    Weatherwatch
    Britain’s roofs can be a huge resource for solar energy

    Thousands of hectares of rooftops could be converted to help country achieve climate goals

September 2023

  • Artist’s impression of St Mary’s Gate, Rochdale

    ‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank

    Exclusive: Create Streets proposes building on Britain’s ‘road belt’ rather than its green belt amid housing crisis

July 2023

  • Polly Toynbee

    The Tories have laid a ‘cut the green crap’ trap for Keir Starmer. He must not fall for it

    Polly Toynbee
  • A sustainable off-grid community in New Mexico built by Earthship Biotecture.

    How off-gridders can avoid gridlock

March 2023

  • Grade II-listed Canada House in Manchester, built in 1909

    How retrofitting the UK’s old buildings can generate an extra £35bn in new money

    Heritage and property groups outline plan to boost energy efficiency at historical sites to create jobs, cut emissions and meet net-zero targets

February 2023

  • Phineas Harper

    Britain is addicted to the wrecking ball. It’s trashing our heritage and the planet

    Phineas Harper
    The obliteration of 50,000 buildings a year is crass vandalism, says Open City chief executive Phineas Harper

January 2023

  • The Black & White Building, by The Office Group, TOG, a new structural timber office block in Shoreditch. Credit: photography by Ed Reeve, courtesy of AHEC

    ‘I want to caress the lift!’: the eco office block miracle made entirely from wood

    It’s renewable, strong as steel, astonishingly fire resistant – yet it’s easy and quiet to build with. Could timber construction be the future? We step inside the revolutionary new London workplace that everyone wants to touch

February 2022

  • Well-insulated home in Milton Keynes.

    Fantasy house hunt
    Insulated homes to weather the storm – in pictures

  • The Old Holloway Passivhaus home in Herefordshire, England.

    Passivhaus: how to insulate your home against soaring heating bills

December 2021

  • A building under construction in Bordeaux, France

    EU urged to ratchet up green energy standards for buildings

  • Solar panels on a roof in Folkestone. The grants were intended to support the public to make their homes more energy efficient and move away from fossil fuel heating.

    England green homes scheme was ‘slam dunk fail’, says public accounts committee

November 2021

  • Air Source Heat Pump Installation

    Consumer champions
    We’re losing our green homes grant because of supply problems

  • Smoke ascends the side of a British house from a condensing boiler outlet.

    Green homes grant scheme helped just 15,000 low-income households buy insulation

October 2021

  • Stronger than steel … the Sara Cultural Centre topped with the Wood Hotel.

    Isn’t it good, Swedish plywood: the miraculous eco-town with a 20-storey wooden skyscraper

    Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks. And now it has one of the world’s tallest wooden buildings. We visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like
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