Built Environment Blog

Across the built environment, from housing, industrial, commercial, hospitals and schools, to civil engineering, infrastructure and urban spaces, our standards and services are designed to help you build resilience, embrace new technologies and be fit for the future.

The built environment's journey to net zero

The built environment currently accounts for at least 40% of the total carbon emissions and huge changes are needed from the sector, to drastically reduce the environmental impact on the planet. This will require all new buildings to be net zero carbon by 2030 and all existing ones by 2050.

Read our blog article to find out what tools and approaches that are currently available to help the built environment professionals achieve this target.

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Document and information management within the built environment

Following the release of the BS EN ISO 19650 series, many organizations have begun to adopt good practices around information management. In doing so, it is important to understand that BS EN ISO 19650, and the other standards relating to building information modelling (BIM), are supported by a myriad of other formalized good practice standards. As such, it is important to ensure that good practice is considered holistically. One example is to consider information management within the context of document management.

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