Month: January 2019

The 10 Year Challenge: How the UK’s low-carbon economy has changed

As our clients know, here at Syntegra we like to read widely around our subject to broaden our knowledge and expertise and spend a considerable amount of time explaining to potential new customers how making even very small changes to their sustainability record can have an impact on their environmental footprint. So we were delighted […]

Measures introduced to tackle poor indoor air quality at children’s nurseries

Five London nurseries in some of London’s most polluted areas are to trial new air quality filtration studies after research indicated indoor pollution levels can be much higher than outside. The systems are set to reduce NO2, PM10 and PM2.5 as studies show that children exposed to these smaller pollution particles and gases are more […]

Building Project: Bellenden Road photographic studio site

Project Info Client: Formal Property Group Completion Year: 2018 mechanical, electrical and plumbing design Location: Peckham, SE London The mechanical, electrical and plumbing design of a venture to transform a former photographic studio into modern residential spaces has been undertaken by Syntegra. Our team have been working on the site in Bellenden Road, Peckham, south […]

UK Clean Air Strategy launched

The UK Government has unveiled its Clean Air Strategy to how it will tackle all sources of air pollution. Exposure to the pollution still present in our atmosphere is one the UK’s biggest public health challenges, shortening lifespans and damaging quality of life for many people. It also harms the natural environment. Clean air is […]

See you on the slopes

Syntegra MD Alan King is networking with a difference this week – with built environment colleagues on the ski slopes. He’s representing the company at PropSki 2019 in the world famous ski resort of Chamonix in France – informal networking with hundreds of peers from dozens of international companies. The event, set up in 2012, […]

Emissions increase – focus on the built environment

The first rise in Co2 emissions for four years has been recorded by UN scientists who announced their findings on the eve of a follow-up to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. To meet the goals of the Paris deal, global emissions need to peak by 2020. But the UN emissions gap report suggests that won’t happen […]

Emissions reduction and cash savings identified by use of low carbon technologies

Carbon emissions from energy generation and use could be cut by more than half with the introduction of low carbon technologies, a new report has indicated. Electric vehicles, renewable energy and innovative new fuels could help power the shift and lead to a reduction in emissions of 54%, says the report, ‘Technology – the climate […]

Solar powered homes mandatory

In a bid to escape the bitter Brexit debates this week, I cast my reading net further afield and was pleasantly surprised by some brighter news from across the Pond. The item that caught my eye? It’s official: any new homes built in California after 2020 will have to be at least partially solar powered. The […]

Winter– do I have to wait to have an ecology survey?

Dark, dismal January, many of us just want to retreat under our duvets and similarly many of our native species are doing the same – all tucked away waiting for Spring. Many of our clients often ask if they must wait to have a preliminary ecological appraisal (PEA) carried out on their site during the […]

From puddings to packaging: Inside the UK’s Christmas waste problem

While the Christmas decorations have been taken down and everyone is immersing themselves at work again (and many on diets!), our friends at Edie have shared with us the sustainability cost of the festive season and given us food for thought in relation to the waste associated with this time of year. With plastics action […]