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Growth in global demand for ‘green’ office buildings slows amid Trump policies

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The growth in global demand for “green” office buildings has slowed after Donald Trump’s assault on environmental protection policies caused a slump in interest in the US, according to a survey of construction industry professionals,Building occupiers and investors across North America and South America expressed significantly lower growth in demand for green commercial buildings, a shift that “seems to be in response to a change in US policy focus”, according to a survey of members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics),Reported demand across the rest of the world also fell, albeit not as sharply,Residential and commercial buildings together accounted for 34% of global carbon emissions in 2023, according to the UN Environment Programme,The majority of those emissions came from heating, cooling and powering buildings, although about a fifth came from construction.

The UN said there was a “critical need for accelerated action in the buildings sector to meet global climate goals”.However, the Rics survey suggested global construction industry professionals were experiencing slower growth in demand.Green buildings can use a range of techniques to cut their environmental impact, ranging from using materials that reduce high-carbon concrete, to cutting water use, cutting heat lost through windows, and using renewable energy.Energy efficiency improvements in particular also help to cut operating costs.Nicholas Maclean, Rics’s acting president, said: “It seems to me that what we’re seeing at the moment might be a blip.

“The people who are going to end up using these buildings want them to be sustainable.Everybody, frankly, knows this is the right thing to do.”He added that green office buildings tend to have a “competitive advantage” in attracting higher rents, because of demand from large-scale corporate tenants, in particular.There were still more US respondents to the survey who reported growth in interest in sustainable commercial buildings.However, the balance of building professionals across the continent reporting higher demand fell sharply, from 25% to 11%.

Sign up to Business TodayGet set for the working day – we'll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morningafter newsletter promotionOutside North and South America, the balance reporting growth in demand was 40%, still down from 48% in 2021, the first year of the survey, but far above the US,Kisa Zehra, Rics’s sustainability analyst, said government policy and regulations have a “huge impact on the confidence of the market”,The Trump administration has made a concerted effort to dismantle a huge range of environmental protections put in place by Republican and Democratic predecessors, undermining confidence in green standards,Rics also highlighted a decline in the number of construction industry professionals who measured their projects’ embodied carbon, such as that emitted in making materials such as steel, glass and concrete, or in the construction process itself,Forty-six percent of construction professionals reported not measuring embodied carbon, up from 34% the year before.

Only 16% of respondents said carbon measurement meaningfully informed material choices in project design.
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Die My Love to Rosalía’s Lux: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

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Seth Meyers: ‘Trump has no idea what regular people are going through and he doesn’t care’

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Seth Meyers on Mamdani’s win: ‘The kind of energy Democrats have been desperately seeking for years’

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Garden shed of vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner added to heritage at risk register

Hut where father of immunology trialled first smallpox vaccine among 138 additions to Historic England listA rustic, ordinary-looking English garden hut regarded as the birthplace of immunology – revolutionising global public health and saving countless lives – has been added to the nation’s heritage at risk register.The hut belonged to Edward Jenner (1749-1823), regarded as someone who has saved more lives than any other human. It was there that he first trialled a vaccine for smallpox in the late 18th century.The hut, built from brick and rubble stone with a simple thatched roof, was christened “the Temple of Vaccinia” by Jenner.Today the structure in Gloucestershire is in a sorry state and is one of 138 buildings and sites added by Historic England to its annual heritage at risk register

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Miss Piggy movie on way from Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone and Cole Escola

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Colbert on Pelosi calling Trump a vile creature: ‘You know who agrees? Most Americans’

Late-night hosts looked back on comments made by Nancy Pelosi about Donald Trump and examined the last-minute campaigning for the New York mayoral race.On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert spoke about the big night for New York. He said that election night in the US is known internationally as “Guys, come look, they’re about to do something stupid!”He spoke about Zohran Mamdani’s late campaign push, hitting multiple clubs and bars in an episode that was taped just before the Democratic candidate made history winning the majority of votes.His major competition, Andrew Cuomo, picked up endorsements from Elon Musk, Eric Adams, George Santos and Stephen Miller, AKA “everyone New Yorkers love”.Colbert also joked that support came from “subway seat puddle” and “your neighbour with the trumpet”

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