Find out more about the Active Building Centre’s latest news and events, read expert blogs and opinion pieces from the team and our partners and see the ABC’s recent appearances in the media.
- Eco-friendly experts advise on plans for Nationwide’s £50m green homes site in Swindon
- Climate Change: Is There a Tech Solution?
- Wales highly efficient research sector punches above its weight new report
- Renters want their homes to be more energy efficient, landlords and developers can help
- Making our buildings more active for a better future
- The public sector can be at the vanguard of a net-zero built environment
- Backing for £505m homes as power stations project
- Solar power has a crucial role to play in the active revolution
- Making Our Homes Energy-Fit For The Future
- Guest blog: celebrating the origins of future of active buildings
- Could the new national infrastructure bank help solve the home retrofit challenge?
- The challenge for Biden, Boris, and the rest of us
- An active resolution for 2020
- What are active buildings?
- The case for an active, systems-based approach
- The six degrees of active buildings
- How do architects de-carbonise existing housing?
- Architects have the ability to lead the drive towards EV adoption
- An active solution: putting energy into architecture
- An ‘active’ opportunity for housing associations
- Empowering homeowners through active buildings
- Existing homes have to become electric homes
- The History of the Active Building Centre – and its Future
- Reflections on 2021
- PRESS RELEASE – ABC JOINS THE GHA
- ABC Hosts COP26 Panel Debate
- ABC hosts COP Gloucestershire
- Bridging the valley of death: greener buildings need not cost more
- Young people must be at the forefront of our efforts to revolutionise the built environment
- Disruption is coming – let’s rise to the challenge it brings
- Buildings must be at the heart of any successful sustainable energy strategy
- A view from construction
- Boris backs ABC’s COPGlos
- A COP26 for Gloucestershire
- Who pays for a green homes revolution?
- Open call launches for COP26 built environment virtual pavilion
- Hearts, minds, wallets and making a smart case for change
- Active Building Centre advises on landmark £50m energy-efficient homes development
- Net zero whole life carbon roadmap for the built environment
- Active Building Research Centre – a stronger story
- Activating the UK’s green industrial revolution
- Improving the energy efficiency of privately rented homes – beis consultation
- Tackling fuel poverty 2020-2035 – welsh government consultation
- Accelerator cities – retrofit resources
- Embracing a Movement for Change
- An Active Upgrade for Housing for the 21st century
- Towns and cities work together on home retrofit with accelerator cities
- Active Building Centre sponsors industry event Futurebuild
- An Active Resolution for 2020
- How can Active Buildings reduce UK carbon emissions?
- Active Building Centre responds to the Future Homes Standard and Building Regulations Part L consultation
- General election 2019: What’s in store for architects?
- An Active Opportunity for Fleets
- From little acorns active buildings grow
- Response to The Telegraph – Britain faces waste battery mountain as electric car use surges
- Neighbourhoods of the future
- Building Engineering Services Association Award nomination
- Letter to editor – The Queen’s speech
- Housebuilders can navigate the nation toward EV adoption
- What is an Active Building?
- Award winning electric vehicle fleet
- Deploying electric vehicle charge points
- Party political take on Active Buildings
- An Attr-Active Opportunity for EV Adoption
- Active Building Centre 100 day success
- New funding opportunities to transform UK construction
- Proving the case for Active Buildings
- Active Buildings working for people
- Are we ready to live in homes without gas?
- Active Building Centre awarded £36 million to change the way buildings use energy
- £36 million UK funding for Swansea University’s clean energy innovation
- Electric Vehicles in Active Buildings
- The Year Ahead at the ABC
- ASK ABC
- To reach #netzero you need more than just add-ons.
- COP26 might be over but the scale of the task is now clearer than ever
- Down but not out – reflections on COP26
- ABC marks Built Environment Day at COP 26
- Leading the Transformation of Construction at Scale
- A zero-carbon energy system must also be a decentralised one
- A note from Robert Llewellyn
- A smart heat and flexible buildings plan 3.0 – the whole system approach
- World Earth Day – 2021
- Budget 2021
- Active Building Centre’s women in science
- Active office – A stronger story
- Getting the policy frame right to support the UK’s transition to net zero
- Active Building Centre – slashing the carbon impacts of the UK’s construction sector
- ‘Precision-primed’ for an active recovery
- Leading businesses urge uk government to deliver clean, inclusive and resilient recovery plan
- Activating our constrained local electricity grids
- We analysed electricity demand and found coronavirus has turned weekdays into weekends
- Active buildings: changing the way people behave in their homes
- Positive changes in Britain’s electricity
- Active Building Centre and partners at Futurebuild leading decarbonisation of built environment
- Working together to decarbonise homes
- Offsite and active
- Buildings mission to halve emissions by 2030
- Nordic zero emission and plus energy buildings 2019 conference
- Active buildings for future generations
- Designing active buildings
- The Construction Challenge and the Active Building Centre
- A distributed energy future for the uk
- Collecting data from active buildings
