by Marina Young | May 5, 2026
If you have worked on any significant development project in recent years, you have likely encountered both of these documents. And you may have wondered whether they are essentially the same thing with different names. The honest answer is: almost, but not quite....
by Marina Young | May 1, 2026
For many project teams, third-party verification of Mat 01 under BREEAM Version 7 is seen as a technical requirement. It is often passed to a sustainability consultant and treated as a task to complete. For developers, investors and cost consultants, it means more...
by Marina Young | Apr 22, 2026
What Comes Next? Each Earth Day offers the built environment sector a moment to take stock. To ask not just how far we have come, but whether the direction of travel is still right. Net zero has been the defining ambition of the last decade. It shaped policy, guided...
by Marina Young | Apr 9, 2026
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the construction and development sector at pace. From early-stage cost planning to tender preparation, the capability on offer today is genuinely useful. As a result, as organisations adopt AI more broadly, they face a deeper...
by Marina Young | Mar 19, 2026
As the built environment accelerates its transition to net zero, operational energy, embodied carbon, and whole life carbon assessments have rightly become central to strategic decision-making. However, one critical performance metric...
