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Tag : Climate Change
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...

Sep 4th 2025
Designing for Resiliency with IESVE at Greenbrier Village

In our latest guest blog, Tim Kohut, Director of Sustainable Design at National Community Renaissance (National CORE), explores the challenges of designing for resilience, sharing...

Jun 24th 2025
Irish disability services provider enlists IES to spearhead climate action strategy

Ireland’s Central Remedial Clinic (CRC), a national charity and voluntary organisation which provides specialist care, treatment, and support for people with complex disabilities,...

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...

Feb 11th 2025
Built Environment Professionals Optimistic on UK's Net Zero Future

Nearly three-quarters of UK senior built environment professionals believe achieving a net zero built environment by 2050 is within reach.A recent survey we conducted as part of...

Aug 1st 2024
Earth Overshoot Day 2024: Buildings Must #MoveTheDate

Today, 1st August 2024, marks this year’s Earth Overshoot Day. The day of the year on which humanity’s demand on nature exceeds the Earth’s annual biological capacity to...

Dec 15th 2023
IES Named as a CCS Supplier for Multiple Frameworks

IES are continuing to help the public sector achieve maximum commercial value, by being named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Demand Management & Renewables...

Dec 1st 2023
IES & edie Release New Net-Zero Report

As COP28 enters full swing, IES have partnered with edie to release a new business report encapsulating all things net-zero and how global efforts to decarbonise will evolve...

Nov 28th 2023
Building Decarbonization: Going Beyond Local Law 97

As 2023 draws to a close, the upcoming year looks to usher in a defining era for building decarbonization across the United States, with states like New York set to enforce...

Oct 16th 2023
Decarb NY: Innovations and Collaborations for Decarbonization

Last month, IES had the pleasure of being involved in the Companies for Net Zero’s Decarb New York 2023 event. In our latest blog, Justin Slusarski, Business Development Manager...

Sep 29th 2023
UK Green Policy U-Turn: Why the Sector Must Rise Above It

Following the news in August of hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences being granted, we expressed our concern over the current UK government appearing to water down...

Jul 5th 2023
How Digitisation is Changing the Built Environment

After announcing our partnership with Soben last week, we asked Soben’s Associate Director David Lymburn to write a guest blog for us. Here he summarises the key ways in which...

Nov 11th 2022
COP27 Decarbonisation Day: Why Efficiency Must Come First

Today, the thematic focus at COP27 is decarbonisation. The programme promises to discuss the many technologies which are emerging as potential solutions to reduce carbon in the...

Nov 8th 2022
COP27: “We are in the fight of our lives. And we are losing.”

As world leaders took to the stage in Egypt yesterday to begin negotiations at the COP27 climate summit, it was hard not to be struck by an overwhelming feeling of despair at the...

Aug 3rd 2022
Net-Zero Buildings in Australia: How BEM Can Help

Following years of ‘climate wars’ and underwhelming carbon policies, the 2022 Australian election marked a potentially significant turning point in Australia’s Zero Carbon...

Jul 18th 2022
Preparing the Built Environment for Intensifying Heatwaves

The UK is experiencing a heatwave this week with temperatures anticipated to exceed 34⁰C in some parts. Temperatures at these extremes are becoming increasingly common, with...