Britain is failing to address housing as part of the climate emergency, according to a group of 60 local authorities, businesses and civil society groups who say government changes to planning rules could spell the end of zero carbon homes in England.
The UK's leading sustainable construction event is co-locating with two other shows in May.
Major new passive house schemes for Ireland.
Thermally modified timber has been used in the building industry for years, principally as a durable and sustainable cladding material, but its history stretches back millennia.
A new airtightness system produced by Passive House Systems has been given the green light by the Passive House Institute, with the UK launch in March 2026.
When SkamoWall arrived in the UK, its Viking-themed advert in Passive House Plus quietly tested a hunch: that storytelling still shapes product choice, even in a technical publication.
Pioneering ecological offsite manufacturer PYC Construction has carried out a targeted test to establish whether panel fixings penetrating an airtight board layer affect airtightness performance, and found they make no measurable difference.
The Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) has developed a new Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) training course designed to respond to what members say they need.
EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra visited Ecocem's Dunkirk plant on 14 April, marking a moment of political visibility for a technology the Dublin-based company says can cut cement's CO₂ output by up to 70 per cent.
Passive house certification has been formally recognised as a deemed-to-satisfy route within the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard at practical completion, in a move which recognises the reliability of the passive house standard as a way delivering significant real world carbon savings.
The Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) has launched Home Performance Pathway, a new certification for small home builders to deliver high quality, healthy and environmentally sustainable homes.
The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage has confirmed that work on transposing the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive into Irish law is continuing, but has not yet stated a timeline for aligning Part L of the building regulations with the directive's zero-emission building standard.
The Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) is recruiting an executive director in what the organisation describes as a rare opportunity to shape the future of sustainable construction in the UK