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Oct 30th 2025
IES Advancing Resilience and Net-Zero at Sustainable Places 2025

Sustainable Places (SP25) once again proved to be one of Europe’s leading events for collaboration and innovation in the built environment. Bringing together researchers, industry...

Aug 22nd 2025
EMEA Summer School: Answering Your Questions

This summer, IES ran a series of lecture-style sessions covering key analyses that can be undertaken using IESVE. With over 1300 questions submitted across the five sessions,...

Jul 28th 2025
Could your factory be ‘leaking’ carbon - and cash?

Here’s how live whole life performance modelling could help you plug the gap…For manufacturers navigating today’s net zero landscape, decarbonising factories and facilities is a...

Jul 10th 2025
IES at the Forefront of Next-Generation Energy Certificates with SmartLivingEPC

The global push towards a climate-neutral future has placed the building sector under an intense spotlight. Responsible for approximately 40% of energy consumption and 36% of...

Jul 9th 2025
Unlocking Hidden Energy & Cost Savings in UK Schools

We have all felt the impact of rising energy costs in recent years, and the education sector is no exception. In 2023/24, energy expenditure in UK schools reached a staggering...

Jun 26th 2025
Optimizing Existing Buildings: Answering Your Questions

Recently, IES ran a webinar covering how energy models and digital twins can be utilized to help optimize existing building performance. During the Q&A portion of the session,...

Jun 20th 2025
Digital Twins: The Key to an Energy Efficient Built Environment

In this article, featured in the latest issue of Energy Future magazine, Rohan Rawte envisions how digital replicas of physically built structures can help predict their lifespan,...

Apr 16th 2025
IES R&D Project ‘Minority Report’ Named in Top 10 Horizon Europe Deep Tech Innovations

I’m delighted to announce that the EU funded ‘Minority Report’ project, led by IES R&D, has been recognised as number 8 in the Top 10 Horizon Europe Deep Tech Projects...

Apr 4th 2025
AtkinsRéalis: Retro-Commissioning for Net-Zero with IES Digital Twins

AtkinsRéalis have used IES Digital Twin technology to provide operational energy modelling and retro-commissioning services for more than 50 of Hong Kong’s government buildings,...

Mar 5th 2025
Beyond BMS: Five Ways IES Live is Transforming Energy Management

Are the days of traditional BMS and energy management systems over? Energy managers, facilities managers and sustainability leaders have a new opportunity to take: move beyond...

Feb 27th 2025
IES R&D Backs EU Project on District Heating & Cooling

IES R&D is excited to be working on a ground-breaking EU funded project that looks set to transform the future of district heating and cooling (DHC) networks across...

Feb 19th 2025
From Buy-In to Monitoring: Executing a Lasting Retrofit

Did you miss our recent retrofit masterclass with edie? The session is now available to watch on demand. Last week, IES joined forces with edie for a live masterclass as part of...

Dec 5th 2024
Case Study Spotlight: Decarbonising Existing Buildings

To reach net-zero, rethinking what we do with existing buildings is a non-negotiable. From simple operational optimisation interventions, to more in-depth retrofit upgrades and...

Dec 2nd 2024
Data & Metering Strategies to Implement Digital Twins: Pt 2

Following on from part one of this two part Q&A series, Mark Gifford tackles more of your questions around Data & Metering strategies for Digital Twin development, that...

Nov 29th 2024
Ensuring Retrofit ROI with Ongoing Performance Tracking

While retrofitting has an important role to play in decarbonising our existing building stock, it’s important to recognise that retrofitting alone won’t get your existing building...

Nov 25th 2024
Post-Retrofit Handover & Commissioning: Closing the Performance Gap

Have you ever implemented a building retrofit? Then you’ll know that even the most well executed projects can fall short of their potential without a robust handover and...