Queen’s Business School featured in Architects’ Journal
Satellite MPR are thrilled to have secured an exclusive ‘First Look’ for the new Queen’s Business School building in Architects’ Journal on behalf of our client, TODD Architects. The building has been described as marking a new chapter for sustainable energy in Northern Ireland and a national geothermal energy flagship.
Guiding the way to Net Zero
A new and completely revised edition of the RIBA award-winning Guide to Building Materials and the Environment has been launched by AJ100 architecture practice Stephen George + Partners in collaboration with the GreenSpec website in response to the building industry’s push towards Net Zero Carbon and the perceived lack of clear, independent, rational information on how to achieve it.
Studio Moren partners with EEA to help drive sustainability in the hospitality industry
The news is out! Hospitality design specialist Studio Moren has announced a strategic partnership with the Energy and Environment Alliance (EEA) – an international not-for-profit coalition driving the decarbonisation of the hospitality industry – to provide expertise on sustainable architecture and interior design practices across the sector.
SGP’s Better Buildings Toolkit for schools launched to a wider audience
Earlier this year we announced the launch of Stephen George + Partners’s Better Buildings toolkit for schools. Since then, the toolkit has not only gone live in the Midlands but has also launched in London.
Urban Edge contributes to report on net-zero in the integrated retirement community sector
We were delighted to have supported Urban Edge Architecture with our copywriting services to produce their submission to ARCO’s recent Grey Going Green report, which highlights how the integrated retirement community sector can tackle the net zero carbon challenge.
SGP launches ‘Better Buildings’ sustainability toolkit for primary schools
Stephen George + Partners LLP (SGP) is launching a free interactive toolkit to introduce primary school children to the importance of building sustainably. Focusing on building materials and how much carbon is released during their manufacture, the engaging and interactive Better Buildings website is free to use and aims to get children at Key Stage 2 thinking about sustainability and designing low carbon buildings.
Major new report provides roadmap towards Oxfordshire’s zero-carbon future
The first comprehensive review of Oxfordshire’s progress towards tackling the climate and ecological emergency and creating a greener, healthier county has been published by sustainability charity Bioregional. The report measures progress against 20 key outcomes agreed in 2018 by over 100 stakeholders from across the county as part of Bioregional’s One Planet Oxfordshire initiative.
The UK’s first net-zero retirement community starts on site in the heart of the Bedfordshire countryside
Designed by our client Urban Edge Architecture, Millfield Green Retirement Community, located in the village of Caddington, Bedfordshire, will be the UK’s first net-zero retirement community and is being delivered by Inspired Villages, Legal & General’s developer and operator of later living homes.
Galway’s largest urban regeneration project is recognised as sustainability leader
Bonham Quay, a new mixed-use development in the heart of Galway developed by Edward Investment and Construction and designed by BDP Architects, has been recognised as a leader in One Planet Living® by international sustainability charity Bioregional.