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Benson Tam of Venturous Group and Michael Kwok of Arup explain how innovative public and private partnerships are pushing the envelope for the future of cities.

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Sustainable life sciences building opens in Watertown

Commercial buildings19 Apr 2024

Clean energy transition company Catalyze has unveiled the purpose-built life science building in the Massachusetts city equipped with solar and storage system.

Can generative AI help buildings run more efficiently?

AI and Machine Learning26 Mar 2024

Aria from BrainBox AI claims to assimilate seamlessly into day-to-day building management processes to deliver insight to building and facility managers.

Cities Climate Action Summit 2024: going green in the built environment

Climate action26 Mar 2024

How three cities are building sustainability and resilience

Editor's Blog15 Mar 2024

London, Toronto and Vancouver are implementing strategies to make their built environment and critical infrastructure more sustainable and resilient.

Could AI half annual carbon footprint of built environment?

AI and Machine Learning13 Mar 2024

Report by global proptech venture capital firm Pi Labs provides analysis of the potential for AI to decarbonise the built environment using just four use cases.

Toronto enables building owners to report energy and water use

Climate action12 Mar 2024

Reporting and benchmarking will support owners of large buildings in their efforts to improve environmental performance, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Decarbonising the built environment

Editor's Blog08 Mar 2024

The push towards greater carbon transparency and enhancing emissions reporting underscores the collective commitment to sustainability in the built environment.

Call for “carbon transparency” at first UN buildings summit

Commercial buildings07 Mar 2024

Arup and the WBCSD warn that without understanding where carbon comes from, it will be impossible to make the scale of cuts needed to meet the Paris Agreement.

UK Green Building Council issues Scope 3 emissions guidance

Commercial buildings06 Mar 2024

Built environment professionals are urged to include embodied carbon assessments within Scope 3 reporting for more accurate representation of carbon footprints.

Taking a whole-of-building approach to energy optimisation

Commercial buildings15 Feb 2024

ST Engineering claims its integrated, AI-powered platform can deliver total energy savings of up to 25 per cent to accelerate building decarbonisation.

Automated buildings control platform builds in cybersecurity

Commercial buildings25 Jan 2024

Honeywell’s Advanced Control for Buildings platform also claims to deliver faster network speeds that, “in an industry first”, makes use of existing wiring.

Companies team to digitise commercial buildings

Commercial buildings10 Jan 2024

Honeywell and Analog Devices aim to help buildings upgrade to digital connectivity tech without replacing existing wiring, reducing cost, waste and downtime.

SmartCitiesWorld’s top news stories of 2023

News31 Dec 2023

Which cities, trends and technologies made the smart cities headlines over the past 12 months? SmartCitiesWorld brings you its 10 top stories of 2023.

London heat network to create decarbonisation blueprint

Climate action20 Dec 2023

Heatropolis heat network in King’s Cross, one of London’s most high-profile regeneration zones, is set to play a key role in decarbonising heat across the UK

Canadian cities advance emissions-neutral buildings

Climate action15 Dec 2023

Calgary and Edmonton are working with environmental charity Ecotrust to support information-sharing on reducing emissions in the built environment sector.

Seattle passes landmark law to create greener buildings

Commercial buildings14 Dec 2023

Owners of existing buildings larger than 20,000 square feet are required to take steps to incrementally reduce their building’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Cop28: US departments team to decarbonise building sector

Climate action08 Dec 2023

Department of Housing and Urban Development and Department of Energy will work together on domestic efforts to reduce carbon emissions in the building sector.

Stockholm inaugurates landmark wooden building

Commercial buildings08 Dec 2023

The Wisdome Stockholm building showcases the use of wood as a building material, highlighting it as an important part of the solution to battle climate change.

Why we need a common framework for net zero buildings

Climate action28 Nov 2023

World Business Council for Sustainable Development and Arup are calling for an internationally agreed definition for net zero buildings in a new report.

C40 Cities’ roadmap aims to decarbonise built environment

Climate action21 Nov 2023

The two-year Visible initiative will support city leaders in London, Madrid and Oslo to pilot equitable and viable construction and renovation models.

10 HQ buildings leading the way for sustainability

Commercial buildings02 Nov 2023

Report by ProptechOS highlights 10 green headquarters of large companies in the US that have made eco-friendly office space central to sustainability efforts.

Developer unveils plans to create £5bn UK climate tech hub

Planning and redevelopment02 Nov 2023

The Earls Court Development Company plans to create a commercial space for the UK’s clean and climate technology sector on a cleared site in West London.

Innovation campus launches real-estate experience app

Commercial buildings27 Oct 2023

Advanced Research Clusters is using the HqO app to capture and analyse critical user and property data to inform the complete lifecycle of real estate assets.

University of Tokyo collaborates on smart building programme

Commercial buildings26 Oct 2023

It is working with the private sector to launch the Smart Building System Research Initiative to accelerate the role of building systems in the green transition.

Calgary to host fifth climate action symposium

Climate action16 Oct 2023

Calgary will stage 12 free public sessions over five days to discuss the impact of climate change and explore what actions the city and citizens can take.

New York City launches smart city accelerator programme

News13 Oct 2023

New York smart city accelerator programme will enable agencies, private companies and academia to test and evaluate eight pilot technology projects per year.

Support for a tax to help decarbonise commercial buildings

Commercial buildings21 Sep 2023

Research by greentech firm Pavegen finds two-thirds of UK respondents would support a New York-inspired “brown tax” to help decarbonise commercial buildings.

NYC launches major plan to cut building emissions

Climate action14 Sep 2023

The new strategy delivers on goals outlined in PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done, New York City’s long-term strategic climate plan released in April.

Unlocking the cross-sector future of green buildings

Commercial buildings14 Sep 2023

Mahesh Ramanujam, CEO of the Global Network for Zero, explains what asset owners in the built environment, across the public and private sectors, can do to step up their green and sustainable buildings progress.

Siemens inaugurates climate-neutral campus in Zug

Commercial buildings12 Sep 2023

The campus combines real and digital worlds and makes use of heat pumps and water from Lake Zug while planted flat roofs provide additional insulation.

Digital twin puts building on track for top energy rating

Digital twins23 Aug 2023

Sustainablility expert Sweco used digital tools from IES to carry out performance modelling of the 12-storey building in the heart of the City of London.

City of London calls for investment to plug green skills gap

People and skills10 Aug 2023

City of London Corporation report highlights need for a skilled and diverse workforce capable of constructing, retrofitting, and managing sustainable buildings.

Thailand claims world’s largest factory rooftop solar project

Solar power09 Aug 2023

The solar panel unit on the facility in Amata City Rayong industrial park southwest of Bangkok will be equivalent in size to more than 18 football pitches.

Making buildings smarter with PaaS and LoRaWan

Internet of Things02 Aug 2023

Senet and ProSentry have announced a partnership to deliver smart building solutions utilising platform-as-a-service for private LoRaWan network deployments.

Built environment must collaborate on climate action

Climate action11 Jul 2023

IStructE urges architects, engineers and designers to create the built environment in a different way and use new material more sparingly and prioritise reuse.

Siemens partners to create sustainable buildings in Greece

Commercial buildings10 Jul 2023

It will work with Prodea Investments to implement a digital building platform and reduce the carbon footprint of existing and under-development buildings.

How to reduce built environment emissions with existing tech

Commercial buildings13 Jun 2023

A report by the consultancy McKinsey identifies the top decarbonisation levers that it reckons can help reduce built environment emissions by half by 2030.

Seattle aims to reduce building emissions by 27 per cent

Climate action12 Jun 2023

It is introducing the Building Emissions Performance Standard Policy to existing non-residential and multifamily buildings greater than 20,000 square feet.

Toronto announces buildings chosen for retrofit challenge

Commercial buildings04 May 2023

Eight buildings will participate in a competition-style challenge with grants of up to $500,000 awarded to support the deeper-than-planned energy retrofits.

$110m plan to decarbonise NYC dwellings via virtual power plant

Smart grids30 Mar 2023

Upgrades aided by the project facility will instantly reduce carbon emissions and create revenue-earning opportunities for residents and building owners alike.

How developers can start decarbonising buildings today

Commercial buildings17 Mar 2023

The authors of a new report urge developers not to wait for future technology and start acting today to reduce embodied emissions, stressing that data is key.

Digital twin tool for smart cities and metaverse launched

Digital twins24 Feb 2023

Synth3D allows developers to simulate and visualise 3D environments representative of real-world locations “where aesthetics and performance are key”.

One Bangkok unveils its smart city living vision

Planning and redevelopment21 Feb 2023

Through its Urbanverse, the people-centric, integrated district aims to be a model of social, economic and environmental sustainability in the Thai capital.

How cities can tackle their biggest challenges through partnershipSponsored by Venturous Group

Video20 Feb 2023

Benson Tam of Venturous Group and Michael Kwok of Arup explain how innovative public and private partnerships are pushing the envelope for the future of cities.

Zimbabwe breaks ground on $500m smart city near Harare

Planning and redevelopment20 Feb 2023

Master plan for the 2.5 million square feet mixed-use development includes parliament and ministry buildings as well as residential and commercial buildings.

Podcast: How cities can tackle their biggest challenges through partnershipSponsored by Venturous Group

Podcasts15 Feb 2023

Benson Tam of Venturous Group and Michael Kwok of Arup explain how innovative public and private partnerships are pushing the envelope for the future of cities.

UK university and start-up team to decarbonise buildings

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