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Building services, mechanical & electrical design creating sustainable buildings can seem complex. How do you ensure you’re complying with current legislation? What about protecting against future changes? How do you know you are getting value for money? What are the latest industry innovations you need to know about? The list goes on. In this section you’ll find regular articles to help you understand more about all these topics and more.

What is a Low Carbon Consultant?

Author: Gary Jones

With all the talk about net-zero, low carbon and reducing emissions, there is increased importance attached to how construction projects are undertaken. There is no appetite in the industry or beyond for wasteful, non-efficient projects that are damaging our environment.

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Building Health Checks

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Maintenance is a topic that is often up for discussion - from how much you need to do through to how much it will cost to do it. Unfortunately, we live in a world where, particularly for public sector estates managers, budgets are often constrained. As a result routine maintenance is often trimmed to the most essential items only, and instead dealing with repairs on an ‘as and when’ basis.

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Covid-19: Should public buildings and workplaces take greater responsibility for improving indoor air quality?

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You can hardly have missed the Government’s Covid-19 campaign strapline of ‘Hands, face and space’ which resulted in an enormous uplift in sales of antibacterial sprays and hand sanitisers as the public did all they could to keep themselves safe. However, you may have missed the next (and at the time of writing, most current) iteration which was ‘Hands, face, space and fresh air’ to encourage the opening of windows and improve ventilation.

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Is a total zero construction industry possible?

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In a recent article we looked at the move to net zero and what decarbonisation means […]

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Decarbonisation and achieving net zero

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Understanding decarbonisation the journey to net zero in the public sector  As the name suggests decarbonisation […]

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How to procure a Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) contractor

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Procuring the right M&E contractor to maximise the success of your project Your building services sit, […]

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