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A hotel, shopping mall, office tower, hospital or large educational facility may use exactly the same amount of electricity over a day but create very different pressure on
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A building owner receives two energy-retrofit proposals. The first offers a two-year payback but delivers modest savings and has a short equipment life.
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The most expensive building problems are not always the ones that trigger an alarm.
Energy Audits9 min read
An organisation can spend heavily on energy-efficient equipment and still miss some of its most valuable savings opportunities.
Retrofitting6 min read
With buildings accounting for nearly 40% of global carbon emissions and 50% of extracted resources, the construction sector faces a singular imperative:
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While gleaming new net-zero buildings capture headlines, the uncomfortable reality is that existing buildings constitute 97%
Retrofitting9 min read
Here’s something that sounds obvious but gets ignored constantly. A retrofit strategy that works brilliantly in Dubai will fail miserably
Retrofitting4 min read
In many buildings, energy consumption appears to be an unavoidable operating cost. Utility bills arrive every month, equipment runs
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Let me ask you something uncomfortable. When you bought your home, you probably checked the
Energy Efficiency6 min read
Let me paint you a picture. Two identical office buildings sit side by side on the same street. Same square footage….
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Energy
Masdar has released its 13th Annual Sustainability Report. Its operating projects generated 40.2 terawatt-hours (TWh) of clean electricity in 2025, up 38 percent from 29.2TWh. That output helped avoid 19.5…
Climate Tech
Lenovo has named Schneider Electric a strategic ally of Lenovo 360 Circle, its global sustainability community for IT channel partners. Under the partnership, announced on 21 September 2026, Schneider Electric…
Energy
Google and Voltus have expanded their agreement to build a 1-gigawatt (GW) virtual power plant across the PJM grid region. A virtual power plant pools many small energy users so…
Circular Economy
Danone has agreed to change some of its bottled water labelling practices, the European Commission announced. Consumer group BEUC, which brought the complaint, welcomed the move. Danone is the last…
ESG News
The Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) has named a new Board of Directors for the next three-year term. GeSI works to advance sustainability through digital innovation and is marking 25…
Environmental
Deloitte Global, the professional services network, surveyed more than 2,100 C-suite leaders across 29 countries for its 2026 C-suite Sustainability Report. The survey found 70% expect climate change to significantly…
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