The need to transition the UK to a net zero economy is an urgent issue, and the future of our planet rests on our ability to do so swiftly and effectively.
Decarbonising our infrastructure and moving to net-zero engineering practices is a vital component in making the UK’s environmental goals…
Urgent global challenges will be tackled collaboratively by architects, planners, structural engineers, and landscape practitioners thanks to a renewed commitment by institutes to work together.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and the Landscape Institute (LI) have signed…
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) has called on civil engineers and other built environment professionals to focus on supporting the delivery of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The call to action comes with ICE’s State of the Nation: Infrastructure in 2024 report. This is the Institution’s annual flagship report…
A 3D concrete printed drawpit structure has been installed at Yorkshire Water’s second largest wastewater treatment works near Bradford.
It comes as part of a drive to consider how more sustainable materials can be used in the construction process. Finnish technology company Hyperion Robotics, working in collaboration with Tarmac and Mott…
The ICE and the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) are hosting a free online event about making infrastructure more sustainable.
The event will present two different policy tools: Unep’s International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure and the ICE-led Enabling Better Infrastructure guidance. It will also showcase ways that officials and…
Getting engineers to live, breathe and deliver on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals is the ambition of the ICE’s new President Keith Howells.
When the United Nations’ (UN’s) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were first launched in 2015, the ambition was to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030.…
The number of sustainability directors and environmental leads within the construction sector has seen a meteoric rise within the past decade.
Net zero targets and the growing understanding of the climate emergency has created the need to build things more efficiently. To do so, many contractors, consultants and clients alike have…
The construction industry faces urgent sustainability risks and finding solutions to the challenges we face requires looking at the issues from a multi-dimensional point of view.
One of the most critical challenges is that the built environment contributes 39% of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with the construction industry…
There’s a lot of talk about net zero. Everyone’s heard of it and it is ubiquitous across business and the media, but what do we really mean when we talk about net zero?
The Office for National Statistics defines net zero for the UK as the point at which “…the…
Fully adopting sustainable practices has the potential to move construction from being climate villains to climate heroes but there is still a lot of work to do.
Climate resilience, circularity and net zero are now common parlance in the civil engineering sector and the industry has come a long way in…
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