Building Value – Cost Models Must Adapt to Higher Long-Term Energy Costs
Industry analysts expect unit energy costs to increase over many years. This trend will happen irrespective of the energy source and even if the UK…
Can Spending More be the Cheaper Option?
The late author Terry Pratchett had a memorable scene in one of his books. It explained one character’s theory that rich people spend less money…
Structural Timber Magazine Spring 2022 Vox Pop
In Structural Timber Magazine’s Spring 2022 issue, Pete Blunt, Innovare’s Managing Director, along with fellow industry insiders, explores his views on current issues affecting the…
Do You Have to Choose Between Net Zero and Combustible Materials?
How do you make difficult decisions when there are apparently conflicting priorities? Surely the answer is to have an open, well-informed and evidence-based debate. You…
New Ways of Building Mean New Challenges for Building Control
The construction sector and the ways that buildings are created didn’t change significantly for many years. Building control didn’t change much either. As offsite methods…
Now Developers and Architects Can Offer Certainty Over Embodied Carbon
Buildings are becoming more energy-efficient. The electricity grid is progressively being decarbonised. As a result, embodied carbon is rapidly becoming a more significant component of…
Short Term ‘Wins’, But at What Long Term Cost?
There’s always been an element in construction projects of balancing long and short term benefits. But where does the balance lie at a time when…
Innovare Support Scape’s Circular Twin School Initiative
Innovaré are delighted to have supported Scape’s Circular Twin Initiative through its i-FAST panellised superstructure solution. SCAPE, acting as the client, challenged the consultant team to find…
Why It’s Time to Factor-In the True Costs of High Carbon Construction
Why isn’t every new building in the UK being completed to the highest standards of energy efficiency, with net zero levels of embodied carbon? The…
The DfE Framework Offers Practical Lessons In Carbon Reduction
Despite the growing climate emergency and plenty of talk about low carbon construction, practical examples are the exception rather than the rule in many sectors….
