The latest revision of the Guide to Building Materials and the Environment travelled to Bulgaria in September, at the invitation of the Bulgarian Green Building Council, and was met with great enthusiasm by the country’s built-environment community. Launched by Stephen George + Partners (SGP) in collaboration with the GreenSpec website with support from CIAT, the […]

The last 50 years has seen a rapid increase in extreme weather events, with this summer alone subject to a number of highly publicised ocean storms, wildfires, droughts and flooding. Scientists warn that these kinds of events may become increasingly common as global warming accelerates, with an estimated 150 million people currently living in land […]

New Guide to Building Materials and the Environment helps built environment professionals pave the way to Net Zero Carbon future A new and completely revised third edition of the RIBA award-winning Guide to Building Materials and the Environment has been launched by Stephen George + Partners in collaboration with the GreenSpec website in response to […]

Committed to improving and raising awareness of Ecology and Biodiversity on construction projects, we are excited to present our introductory leaflet on the subject. Although Biodiversity Net Gain is looked on favourably as part of a current planning application, this year it will become a requirement by law. We have produced our first leaflet, which […]

Following a successful summer, the Stephen George + Partners (SGP) bees are now prepared for the winter and it’s an appropriate time for a quick word from Andre, The HoneyBee Man: “The SGP honeybees have had another successful season in 2022. The colony built up its numbers strongly in the Spring which meant we needed […]

Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is delighted that their Better Buildings toolkit has not only gone live in the Midlands but has also launched in London. We have previously worked with Tardebigge CE First School, a primary school in a rural location outside Bromsgrove, to use the Better Buildings website to introduce Year 4 children […]

At Stephen George + Partners, we not only design and deliver exemplary buildings, we care passionately about the places where we build and the broader impacts of our actions on the planet. Architecture is a powerful, thought provoking and wide-reaching medium and as one of the UK’s top 100 architectural practices we are in a […]

We are pleased to see SusCon making a reappearance in this month’s AJ Specification. Please click here to read the full article: Sustainability AJ Buildings Library Article. Completed in 2011, SusCon’s Sustainable Construction training and research centre in Dartford was awarded a BREEAM Education 2008 ‘Outstanding’ rating with a score of 88.5% against a design stage […]

In July 2014, Chris Halligan was invited to talk about specifying sustainable materials. As well as representatives from the Architects Journal, Chris was joined by members of the concrete industry, Forticrete as well as other Architects and consultants. Chris raised insightful points including the current lack of statutory legislation regarding sustainable materials and the importance […]

As part of the launch of the 2013 RIBA President’s Award for Research and in an effort to encourage more entries from practising architects, the RIBA is running a series of blog posts written by former winners about what winning the awards meant to them. Not one to miss such an opportunity, our very own […]