news and events 

News, press and events to keep you up to date with the progress of the research project. 

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news and ​PRESS 

Events 

Read the Executive Summary
​Read the full report​

Press releases:
​​​05 December 2022 - Building for 2050 final report 
03 March 2020 - Building for 2050 launches film
06 March 2019 - Five pioneering low carbon housing projects secured for Building for 2050
28 November 2017 - Press release to announce the project

​For any media enquiries please contact Tim Metcalfe [email protected]

Press coverage:
The Construction Index – March 2019
Research team to study low carbon developments

Good Homes Alliance – March 2019
Five pioneering low carbon housing projects secured for Building for 2050 research

Edie – December 2017
Building for 2050: Can the Government's low-carbon housing venture deliver homes fit for the future?

Business Green – December 2017
Getting under the skin of the building sector's low-carbon challenge

The Planner – November 2017
Research project launched to probe low-cost and low-carbon housing
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Edie – November 2017
UK construction industry aims to halve emissions in built environment by 2025

Lord Callanan, Minister for Business, Energy and Corporate Responsibility joined the Building for 2050 research team and developer Galliard Homes on Friday 17th September for a tour of the recently completed Tallack Road development in Leyton, London.
​He got to see low carbon technology in action whilst also speaking to residents to find out how they found their new homes.

Tallack Road is the first development to use a large-scale communal air source heat pump feeding an ambient temperature heat network and individual heat pumps, together with solar photovoltaic panels.

From left: Steve Harper - Galliard Homes, Tom Dollard – Pollard Thomas Edwards, David Ross – AECOM, Lord Callanan, Don O’Sullivan - Galliard Homes, Heidi Collocott – AECOM, Emma Svilar - Galliard Homes, Julian Harper-Brown - Galliard Homes

• ​Tuesday 17 January 2023 - PTE report launch event 
• Tuesday 6 December 2022 - AECOM report launch event 
• Thursday 6 October 2022 - UK Construction Week, Birmingham 
• Tuesday 2 March 2022 - Futurebuild, London
• Tuesday 26 October 2021 - Project webinar 
• Wednesday 9 June 2021 - Good Homes Alliance focus group
• Thursday 5 March 2020 - Futurebuild, London
• Tuesday 6 October 2020 - Good Homes Alliance Conference
• Wednesday 6 March 2019 - BEIS Innovation Hub at Futurebuild

Futurebuild 2022

Futurebuild 2020