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Can BREEAM 'Outstanding' increase your rental premium?
BREEAM ratings and other sustainable certifications can influence the rental value of real estate, and if they so do, how could this effect the needs and demands for future BREEAM assessments?
Reclaimed structural steel - is it propping up decarbonised buildings?
It used to be the case that organisations shied away from using reclaimed structural steel, due to a certain stigma regarding reusing anything that is integral to buildings’ structure. So what’s changed?
Outstanding! BREEAM Ratings for NOMA & Wellington Place
4 Angel Square, NOMA, and 11 & 12 Wellington Place are the first of Mainer Associates’ projects to achieve BREEAM outstanding, the highest BREEAM rating possible.
Whole Life-Cycle Carbon: the London Plan Guidance
Following on from the release of the London Plan last year, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has now released its Whole Life-Cycle (WLC) Assessments Guidance, which originally came out for consultation back in 2020. Learn more here…
SMEs in construction: vital, agile, sustainable
For a number of years now, there have been articles appearing in the press outlining the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the UK construction sector. This is hardly surprising, given than at the start of this year, 99.5% of all businesses are SMEs, which make up half of turnover in the private sector and three fifths of employees, some 16.3 million people.