Our Resources

The Better Buildings Partnership regularly publishes blog pieces, news articles, toolkits and case studies that highlight the latest sustainability developments in the UK commercial real estate industry. The resources can be filtered hereunder by topic, type and member.

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  • intu's Award-Winning Strategy for Reducing Carbon

    intu's Award-Winning Strategy for Reducing Carbon

    11 May 2015

    Alan Richardson, Group Energy Manager at Intu Group, recently discussed how the company has implemented an award-winning strategy for reducing carbon. In October 2014 Intu received the Best in Continuing Carbon Reduction 2013-14 Award from the Carbon Trust.

    Topic: Energy/Carbon

    Type: News

  • Full (Low-Carbon) Steam Ahead!

    Full (Low-Carbon) Steam Ahead!

    27 May 2015

    Welcome to the new BBP website and to the first of what we hope will be an informative series of blogs from the BBP members. As Chairman I get to go first! The BBP is a great example of what companies can do when we all pull in a similar direction for a common cause. It has changed a lot over the last five years but it is essentially held together by the same clear goal – to provide leadership and support to the real estate industry to help us improve the sustainability performance of our portfolios. The expansion in

    Type: Blogs

  • Land Securities Wins Two Considerate Constructors Awards

    Land Securities Wins Two Considerate Constructors Awards

    29 April 2015

    Land Securities has won two awards at the Considerate Constructors Scheme 2015 National Site Awards; one for its Nova and one for its One New Street Square development site. Mace and Skansa respectively were the principal construction partners involved in the projects and worked with the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) to ensure that the sites were top quality in terms of their environmental performance and engagement with the local community.

    Type: News

    Member: Landsec

  • Waste-to-Energy and Intelligent Energy Monitoring Technologies to Pilot Their Innovations at Canary Wharf

    Waste-to-Energy and Intelligent Energy Monitoring Technologies to Pilot Their Innovations at Canary Wharf

    15 May 2015

    Two smart cities innovators, Demand Logic and SEaB Energy, have been selected to pilot their technologies at Canary Wharf after winning the second phase of the Cognicity Challenge. Cognicity is a smart cities accelerator programme designed and delivered by ENTIQ for Canary Wharf Group (CWG). It was established to discover and support the development of future technologies with positive

    Type: News

    Member: Canary Wharf Group

  • Energy Centre at Spring Mews

    Energy Centre at Spring Mews

    12 June 2015

    Thanks to a highly efficient, low-carbon energy centre at Spring Mews in Vauxhall, CLS Holding’s new mixed-use development substantially exceeded its planning consent target of 25% better carbon efficiency than Part L 2010 Building Regulations as well as minimising environmental impacts and offering low energy costs to occupiers.

    Topic: Energy/Carbon

    Type: Case Studies

    Member: CLS Holdings