by Marina Young | Sep 30, 2026
Man 02 is one of the more straightforward credits in BREEAM to achieve. It is also one of the most frequently missed. The requirements are clear, the methodology is well established, and the evidence is not onerous. Project teams lose these credits regularly, and...
by Marina Young | Sep 21, 2026
BS 8544 and the ISO 15686 series are familiar tools for life cycle costing and durability. Teams use them on projects every week. Both are now being rewritten, and the changes are substantial. They are likely to influence good practice from 2027 onwards. If you are...
by Marina Young | Sep 16, 2026
Two competent consultants assess the same building. They work from the same drawings and the same specification. Yet their whole life carbon figures come out different, sometimes by a margin that surprises the client. This is not a sign that one of them is wrong. It...
by Marina Young | Sep 10, 2026
Ask a project team when the important decisions get made, and many will point to the moments that feel decisive: the tender, the contract, the start on site. Yet by then, the decisions that matter most have usually already happened. The choices that shape a...
by Marina Young | Sep 1, 2026
We continue our series of interviews with the ADW team, which we opened with our Director, Anthony Waterman. This time, we sit down with Harish Borah. Construction can calculate some things. Others, it must judge. Harish has spent over a decade working where the two...
