A new scheme for rating the operational energy efficiency of UK offices, NABERS UK, has been launched. It is hoped the scheme will play a vital role in bridging the performance gap between the design and in-use energy performance of offices in the UK and...
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What led to the Building Safety Bill? The fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017 exposed serious failings across the whole system of building and managing high-rise homes. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Dame Judith Hackitt carried out an independent review of building regulations and fire...
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Scientists coined Coronavirus falls in global carbon 'the biggest experiment ever'. But with emissions back on the rise, what might tomorrow's sustainability look like? 'Carbon savings' from Covid-19 lockdown halve within weeks The above is a Guardian headline from July 19 2020 that rather abruptly stymied hopes...
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The UK, and indeed the world, has been living through some of the most challenging months in living memory. Now, minds in Government are turning towards protecting and rebuilding the shattered pillars of economies across the planet, no small task given varying predictions estimate any UK...
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As the UK Government starts to ease lockdown, signals are many corporate experts see now as the time to forever redefine our economy for the greener. At the start of June, the UK Government began easing the rules of lockdown. Rightly or wrongly, some minds are...
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Coronavirus has rewritten the status quo, but environmental impacts continue apace. Here's why we mustn't forget what's happening with the planet we inhabit. Much will be written, in the coming months and years, on today's crisis. Analyses on why the virus stopped us in our tracks,...
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As the world enters a frightening phase unknown since World War 2, can we find encouragement in the redemptive effects on our environment? First and foremost, Content Coms wishes to send our thoughts to all of our customers and friends at this most harrowing of times. And...
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On a damp Friday on February 28 2020, central Bristol ground to a halt. Normal service was suspended. Greta Thunberg, having arrived by train at Temple Meads, was talking at the Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate (BY24C) event. Police said 20,000 people were in attendance (including...
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Even the likes of Donald Trump seem to have realised trees' potential to mitigate climate change. Alongside more technical solutions, have we been ignoring the simple power of nature to heal itself? Recently, President Donald Trump told a crowd at the Davos World Economic Forum that...
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There can surely be no one in the UK unaware of the seismic events of late in Westminster. In a telling defeat for Labour, Boris Johnson's Conservatives surged to a powerful majority; lending Johnson the scope to govern as he chooses in coming years. But what...
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