World Green Building Week
This week is World Green Building Week, celebrating sustainable buildings and encouraging developers around the world to create more net zero buildings. Buildings currently contribute more than a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions buthe World Green Building Council hopes to make all buildings net zero by 2050. There are currently only around 500 […]
New BREEAM standards to come into force
Revised BREEAM standards for newbuilds are set to be introduced next year following widespread consultation. The current BREEAM UK New Construction standard was launched in 2014 but as it judges developments against best practice guidelines, it was deemed appropriate to review and update it on a three to four year cycle. Changes in regulation and […]
Award winning project
A retrofit development that our consultants worked on has won a prestigious national award. Print Works House in Fitzrovia, London, won the ‘Housing Under £5 million’ category in the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards. Syntegra consultants, working with HÛT architects, had provided advice on issues of mechanical and electrical design, acoustics, energy and sustainability at both […]
Best in class for health and wellbeing
With all the seasonal noise around A Level results and clearing opportunities for the latest crop of would-be students, one new course appears to have slipped under the radar yet could have an incalculable impact on our future. Ploughing through the list of available courses, which gets more expansive and, some might say, irrelevant in […]
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