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Upgrading the UK’s existing buildings key to coping with future record heat

|Date: 11 January, 2024

Upgrading the UK’s existing buildings key to coping with future record heat

Richard Tibenham of climate tech firm IES says upgrading the UK's existing buildings will be key to copin ...

Richard Tibenham of climate tech firm IES says upgrading the UK's existing buildings will be key to coping with future record heat. The confirmation that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded demons ...

11 January, 2024
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IES and Dublin City Council work together on whole-life carbon Digital Twin project to optimise renovation of social housing

|Date: 6 April, 2023

IES and Dublin City Council work together on whole-life carbon Digital Twin project to optimise renovation of social housing

Net zero technology firm, IES, has collaborated with Dublin City Council on a Digital Twin project to ide ...

Net zero technology firm, IES, has collaborated with Dublin City Council on a Digital Twin project to identify how Dublin’s social housing stock can be decarbonised in the most efficient manner in ter ...

6 April, 2023
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IES wins pioneering tender to create Calderdale Local Area Energy Plan

|Date: 27 March, 2023

IES wins pioneering tender to create Calderdale Local Area Energy Plan

Glasgow-based climate technology firm, IES, has been awarded the contract to develop a Local Area Energy ...

Glasgow-based climate technology firm, IES, has been awarded the contract to develop a Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) for Calderdale Council as a vital part of its efforts to reach net zero by 2038. Th ...

27 March, 2023
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Warrington digital twin helps explore the pathways to net zero

|Date: 11 November, 2022

Warrington digital twin helps explore the pathways to net zero

As part of the Innovate UK-funded project REWIRE, a virtual ‘digital twin’ of Warrington has been created ...

As part of the Innovate UK-funded project REWIRE, a virtual ‘digital twin’ of Warrington has been created to help identify the energy, carbon and cost-efficiency measures required across the town’s bu ...

11 November, 2022
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Digital twin technology used to optimise building performance across the Orkney Islands

|Date: 24 August, 2022

Digital twin technology used to optimise building performance across the Orkney Islands

Orkney Islands Council has used pioneering digital twin technology to optimise operational performance, e ...

Orkney Islands Council has used pioneering digital twin technology to optimise operational performance, energy efficiency and air quality across its building portfolio. Working with built environment ...

24 August, 2022
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IES | Using digital twin technology to maximise sustainable retrofit

|Date: 23 August, 2022

IES | Using digital twin technology to maximise sustainable retrofit

Keivan Djahanbani, Senior Project Consultant at IES, discusses using digital twin technology to unlock ma ...

Keivan Djahanbani, Senior Project Consultant at IES, discusses using digital twin technology to unlock maximum sustainability in local council retrofit programmes. Recently, the Commons Environmental ...

23 August, 2022
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July heatwave: Preparing the built environment for intensifying heatwaves

|Date: 18 July, 2022

July heatwave: Preparing the built environment for intensifying heatwaves

Richard Tibenham, Business Development Manager at built environment climate tech firm, IES, discusses wha ...

Richard Tibenham, Business Development Manager at built environment climate tech firm, IES, discusses what climate change and its subsequent unusual weather conditions mean for building energy use and ...

18 July, 2022
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Climate change: Retrofitting needs to take priority over demolition and rebuilding

|Date: 31 May, 2022

Climate change: Retrofitting needs to take priority over demolition and rebuilding

The Commons Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne MP, has highlighted the need for ministe ...

The Commons Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne MP, has highlighted the need for ministers to address the need to reduce the number of buildings being knocked down amid climate change ...

31 May, 2022
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Green technologies take centre stage in immersive version of Glasgow city icons at COP26

|Date: 29 October, 2021

Green technologies take centre stage in immersive version of Glasgow city icons at COP26

Two of Scotland’s leading lights in the property sustainability space collaborate to highlight the potent ...

Two of Scotland’s leading lights in the property sustainability space collaborate to highlight the potential environmental gains new and emerging technologies can bring to existing city buildings. COP ...

29 October, 2021
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Zero carbon COP26 House opens its doors to the public

|Date: 29 October, 2021

Zero carbon COP26 House opens its doors to the public

COP26 House, which demonstrates how beautiful, affordable homes can help meet global climate change ambit ...

COP26 House, which demonstrates how beautiful, affordable homes can help meet global climate change ambitions, will open its doors to the public for two weeks only from Monday, 1st November. Built by ...

29 October, 2021
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