The LCA methodologies for sustainable building The future building regulations planned for 2021 will not be just energy like RT2012 but will incorporate environmental criteria. During this session, you will have an overview of the experiments already carried out to prepare for this transition: the first returns of the E+C- label, which prefigures this future regulation for the new, the presentation of a comparative study… Read more⇒

Oakland, California – (October 30, 2019) – Kevin Hydes, Integral Group’s Founder and CEO receives a 2019 Leadership Award from the U.S. Green Building Council   Kevin will be recognized at the USGBC Leadership Awards Ceremony taking place on Wednesday, November 20, 2019 during the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Atlanta.   “Our Leadership Award recipients remind us that taking action – big or small – has the power… Read more⇒

Integral Group is thrilled to announce fourth quarter honors from various respected industry groups in California including the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles, Engineering News-Record California, New Buildings Institute and the San Diego Green Building Council. Our end-of-year suite of awards include the following: 2019 ZNE School Leadership Awards / New Building Institute With more than 80 Zero Net Energy (ZNE) schools in operation… Read more⇒

The UK Government has recently stated its ambition that all new homes should meet a Future Homes standard, aiming to halve the energy use of all new buildings by 2030, compared to the current Building Regulations requirements, which is a significant step towards meeting a net zero target. The Good Homes Alliance believe that the Future Homes Standard is a key opportunity for Government and the house-building industry to… Read more⇒

Advancing 'Net Zero' Development The national policy of targeting net zero carbon emissions by 2050 means we need to act now to design and manage efficient buildings with reduced dependency on fossil fuels. This CIBSE event will present perspectives, with speakers from Transport for London, Hoare Lea, Elementa Consulting and Laing O'Rourke, on how we can accelerate the adoption of technologies and techniques to reduce… Read more⇒

Elementa Consulting, member of Integral Group, are pleased to announce our first mainland European office in Belgrade, Serbia. Prleks, a well-established firm founded in 1990, join the Deep Green family with an impressive portfolio of projects in Serbia, across Europe, and in Asia. They have worked with world-class clients, architects and design houses, and share a commitment to engineering excellence, quality and client service, with… Read more⇒

Integral Group is proud to welcome Tom Marseille as the Managing Principal of the Seattle design studio. Tom joins Integral Group with a diverse background in delivering creative, award-winning, high-performance, sustainable building solutions. Tom focuses on integrative building systems design with an emphasis on delivering best-in-class building performance outcomes. With years of experience in LEED and Living Building certification and zero net energy building design,… Read more⇒

A diverse and inclusive employee community is fundamental to Elementa Consulting's resiliency as a firm. Becoming a parent is a life-changing event, and it essential to our success to support our employees through this important transition. In our ongoing commitment to equity and diversity within our group, and to provide a family-friendly workplace, Elementa Consulting, as a member of Integral Group, are pleased to announce… Read more⇒

Associate Clara Bagenal George discovered, through her work in energy strategy development, that current energy policy was not representative of real life scenarios. The Greater London Authority (GLA) London Plan's carbon factors used in design of gas and electricity systems were not keeping up with the changing state of the utility grid.  Carbon factors last published by the GLA were now significantly less reliant on… Read more⇒

How sustainable is our residential estate? Venue: RICS, Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AD Time; 7.45 - 10.15am Last February the UK Committee on Climate Change warned that “UK homes are not fit for the future” and made a series of recommendations including no new homes to be connected to the gas grid from 2025. “The way new homes are built and existing homes retrofitted… Read more⇒