The 2024 ASBP Award winners
The winners of the 2024 ASBP Awards have been announced. Now in their sixth year, the awards highlight projects, products and initiatives that excel when assessed against six pillars of …
The winners of the 2024 ASBP Awards have been announced. Now in their sixth year, the awards highlight projects, products and initiatives that excel when assessed against six pillars of …
The Sustainable Development Foundation has supported a growing collection of organisations in delivering a united response to the current Future Homes Standard consultation. All are agreed that neither of the …
The third Neil May Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday 21 March at midday. Titled Mould, Damp and Health Inequalities, it will focus attention on an issue that Neil …
The latest addition to the SDF’s Exemplars Library is Durley Chine Environmental Hub, a multi-functional enhancement to Bournemouth’s seafront. Its mission is to reduce waste, drive a step change in behaviour and build environmental guardianship of the coastline, and models this aim through its construction.
The STBA, which is hosted by the SDF, has been confirmed as a Horizon Europe funded project leader for a three year period, working to deliver support for people-centred approaches …
A new publication by SDF Alliance member the Good Homes Alliance examines the thesis that a positive ‘tipping point’ has been reached when financial opportunity and the imperative to reach net zero by delivering sustainable buildings coincide.
The case study report on a multi-year project to deliver and assess a whole house retrofit of a small solid wall mid-terrace home in the South Wales Valleys has just been published. The Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance (STBA), which is managed by the SDF, worked in partnership with RHA (formerly known as Rhondda Housing Association) to carry out the retrofit at a void 2-bed mid terrace pre-1919 dwelling in Ton Pentre.
The National Retrofit Hub, which is hosted by the Sustainable Development Foundation in its development phase, has this summer welcomed Rachael Owens and Sara Edmonds as co-directors to lead the …
The SDF welcomes the announcement of the new Welsh Zero Carbon Hwb, which will help bring forward the benefits of carbon reduction for new and existing homes in the social housing sector across Wales.
The Passivhaus Trust, part of the SDF Alliance, has announced the finalists for the 2023 UK Passivhaus Awards. Several projects that feature in the Sustainable Development Foundation Exemplars Library are …