The ultimate outdoor room with a view, these rooftop spaces from the ELLE Decoration archive raise the bar for al fresco ...

It is a year since more than 300 new MPs took their seats in parliament, including some with experience of the housing sector ...

Uninterrupted blue skies and relentless sunshine call for one thing only: a trip to a shady hidden gem in one of the world's ...

Edinburgh has a profusion of community projects injecting energy and optimism into abandoned and underused spots in the city.

Customers need stronger protections against scammers capitalising on green energy schemes, says Scotland's consumer body.

Sadiq Khan is considering allowing new towns of more than 10,000 homes to be built on London’s green belt, the mayor’s office has confirmed. Planned communities such as Stevenage and Milton Keynes ...

A project to measure the benefits of living roofs in Auckland has shown surprising results that researchers hope take root. The trial led by Auckland University, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei and local council ...

Challenges of green roofs City officials are exploring policies to mandate green roof installation on new developments, following the example of cities like Toronto, which require green roof coverage ...

It’s also one of more than a whopping 150 accreditations that the travel industry uses, including Green Key (prominent in the US) and Green Tourism, which are mostly environmentally focused.

Flat roof extensions are constructed using a deck which could be made up of softwood boards finished with a bitumen coating. However, increasingly, they are made using thick sheets of weather- and ...

They found that if all London’s rooftops were cool roofs it would lower average outside air temperatures by 0.8C, and if all of them were covered in solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, which absorb ...