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Net Zero
30 January 2025
Electric London: Repowering the Grid
This Breakfast Talk contemplates different scales to drive the decarbonisation of London’s infrastructure, exploring the challenges and opportunities presented by the energy transition.
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Net Zero
05 December 2024
What does net zero carbon mean for buildings in the UK? Watch back as we explore a new, standardised approach for defining and assessing net zero-carbon buildings in the UK.
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Net Zero
04 November 2024
Exploring the strategies and best practices for increasing blue and green infrastructure through public spaces, buildings, and rooftops, highlighting the need for a wilder urban ecology.
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Net Zero
02 July 2024
Building a sustainable future with biomaterials
During this year’s London Climate Action Week, this webinar explored the potential of biomaterials in design whilst delving into some of the challenges hindering wider adoption.
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Net Zero
27 February 2024
Tom Foxall of Historic England speaks to Peter Murray about improving the sustainability of our housing stock, high streets, skills and apprenticeships.
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Net Zero
18 January 2024
Fit-out can play a key role in a move towards more sustainable buildings, in this webinar we discover more about the benefits of prioritising sustainability when approaching fit-out.
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Net Zero
19 May 2023
Technical Briefing: Improving indoor air quality
Catch up on our latest webinar with Carrier to learn more about the importance of indoor air quality, discussing the current guidance and legislation.
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Net Zero
26 April 2023
Technical Briefing: Heat pumps
Watch this webinar delivered by Samira Saravi and Daniel Smith of Mitsubishi Electric, hosted by NLA, to hear about the critical part played by Commercial Heat Pumps on the Road to Net Zero.
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Net Zero
28 October 2022
One year on from COP26, where do we stand? In the webinar, speakers from public and private sectors discuss how these policies and guidelines can be translated into practical implementation, and what...
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Net Zero
01 March 2022
Kevin Hydes is a former Chair of the World Green Building Council (WGBC) as well as the USGBC. The Founder President of the Integral Group, which trades as Elementa in the UK, talks to Peter Murray ab...
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Net Zero
21 February 2022
Farah Naz leads on Sustainable Cities for AECOM across the Middle East and Africa. She is co author of 'Net Zero City – how to overcome the climate crisis by 2032'. She talks to Peter Murray about how...
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Net Zero
15 February 2022
Steve Webb is co-founder of Webb Yates engineers of Amin Taha’s controversial stone-structured 15 Clerkenwell Close. He talks to Peter Murray about the sustainability of stone as a building material a...
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Net Zero
15 November 2021
Webinar: COP26 briefing: what next for the climate agenda
Webinar recording live from Glasgow as we hear an update on COP26 negotiations from the UK High-Level Climate Action Champion team.
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Net Zero
18 October 2021
Projects in Practice: nature-based solutions
Hear from the team behind the Gascoigne Estate, a regeneration scheme that places sustainability at the heart of its design ethos.
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Net Zero
06 October 2021
Resilient London: confronting climate change - report launch
Launching the NLA research paper Resilient London: confronting climate change, this webinar looks ahead at COP26 to discuss priorities for climate resilience.
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Net Zero
06 October 2021
To mark the publication of the NLA report on London’s resilience, Lord Deben, Chairman of the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change, talks to NLA Curator-in-Chief Peter Murray about COP26. zer...
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Net Zero
13 September 2021
Kiru Balson is Senior Sustainability Consultant at building services engineers Max Fordham, focusing on embodied carbon and the circular economy. She tells Peter Murray about how these essential aspec...
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Net Zero
19 July 2021
As President of the Institution of Civil Engineers Rachel Skinner has made net zero carbon infrastructure the theme of her time in office. She talks to Peter Murray about how her members have responde...
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Net Zero
28 May 2021
Sustainable materials – a pathway to zero carbon
What are the most sustainable materials that can be adopted in our buildings to lower carbon emissions? In this webinar we heard from built environment professionals that show best practice in the use...
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Net Zero
29 April 2021
Timber Square – pioneering zero carbon office development
A Hoare Lea event, hosted by NLA, discussing Timber Square which has planning approval and will be a net zero carbon scheme, a decade ahead of the UK Green Building Council’s target for all new develo...
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Net Zero
16 April 2021
Emma Harvey is Programme Director of the Green Finance Institute. She tells Peter Murray about new financial products and solutions that can help accelerate the decarbonisation of buildings and how th...
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Net Zero
19 March 2021
Dean Bowie set up GreenBlue Urban to provide solutions for assisting trees in urban spaces and improve planting success. He talks to Peter Murray about increasing leaf canopy in cities, an issue that...
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Net Zero
12 February 2021
Sarah Wigglesworth hit the headlines in 2004 with her designs for her own eco, ’straw bale’ house. She talks to Peter Murray about how the building has evolved, the complexities of improving the energ...
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Net Zero
01 February 2021
Home Working - Impact on air pollution and climate emissions
With the escalating need for action to reduce emissions, both carbon and air pollution, the majority of employees now working from home full-time poses a concern for many businesses.
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Net Zero
20 January 2021
A Max Fordham webinar recording, hosted by NLA, where Max Fordham brought together speakers to explore the crucial role of retrofitting in achieving net zero carbon buildings.
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Net Zero
17 December 2020
London, Glasgow, Manchester – Becoming Truly Sustainable
A Civic Engineers event, hosted by NLA. Civic Engineers brought together speakers from the built environment and political landscape in Manchester, London and Glasgow.
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Net Zero
11 December 2020
Projects in Practice: Zero Carbon London
The first seminar of the NLA series of Projects in Practice looked into the approaches of environmental design used to reduce carbon emissions. It explored two exemplar London projects that show best...
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Net Zero
04 December 2020
Preparing for COP26 in Glasgow
Julie Hirigoyen, CEO of the UK Green Building Council, talks to Peter Murray about changing attitudes to the Climate Emergency, retrofitting homes and getting ready to host the UN Climate Change Confe...
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Net Zero
19 November 2020
Webinar - Retrofitting London’s homes: case studies of green finance solutions
This event was part of London Climate Action Week (LCAW) and brough together experts to present practical case studies showcasing financing solutions to retrofit residential stocks.
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Net Zero
19 November 2020
‘COVID is bad, but climate change is something else’ – Sunand Prasad
New Chairman of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) Sunand Prasad talks to Peter Murray about pro-green Government policies, Biden’s victory and COP26 next year.
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Net Zero
11 November 2020
Zero Carbon London - report launch
Webinar recording of the launch of the 'Zero Carbon London' report. NLA looks at the key barriers for London in addressing the climate emergency.
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Net Zero
23 October 2020
Environmental design engineer Clara Bagenal George is an associate at Elementa consulting, she’s a Mayor of London’s Design Advocate and an instigator of LETI – the London Energy Transformation Initia...
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Net Zero
08 September 2020
Marie-Louise Schembri is Design Director at engineers Hilson Moran. She talks about the energy and carbon performance gap in the UK building sector and how the private sector has taken over from the p...
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Net Zero
22 June 2020
Monica von Schmalensee is a senior partner at White Arkitekter as well as Swedish Deputy National Architect and President of the Swedish Council of Sustainable Cities. She talks to Peter Murray about...
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Net Zero
10 June 2020
Mark Tillett is co-founder and director of Heyne Tillett Steel – HTS – a structural and civil engineering practice with a keen focus on innovative approaches to sustainable design. He talks to Peter...
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Net Zero
02 June 2020
Take-make-waste. COVID-19 and the circular economy
Michael Cowdy, Director of global architectural practice McGregor Coxall, talks to Peter Murray about smart streets, multifunctional public space, climate change and the circular economy.
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Net Zero
08 May 2020
Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Partner at BIG who most recently contributed to the BIG U – the resiliency plan to protect 10 miles of Manhattan's coastline – talks to Peter Murray about COVID19, resiliency and cli...
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Net Zero
07 May 2020
Net Zero Expert Panel - Highlights
Highlights from a special NLA meeting of experts on the net zero challenge for London provided an opportunity for a range of property and sustainability specialists to discuss current thinking on argu...
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Net Zero
24 April 2020
Peter Clegg, founder and senior partner of Fielden Clegg BradleyStudios and long term campaigner on sustainability was involved in the launch of Architects Declare. He discusses with Peter Murray how...
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