Engineering the future: What biodiversity means for the next generation of design

Too often, biodiversity is brought in too late, when layouts are fixed, budgets are squeezed and real opportunities have already vanished.

Author

Agata Lo Certo

Publication

Building Design

Biodiversity Net Gain regulations should be helping to create projects with a positive impact, yet many teams are still finding it a sticking point. Agata Lo Certo unpacks why this is happening and discusses how earlier, more integrated thinking can unlock better outcomes in Building Design.

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The construction boom improved the lives of billions of people, but we have reached a tipping point,

Thought Leadership

18.03.26

Engineering the future: We already have the materials and the techniques to transform how we build

Rob Nield stresses the need for reuse, efficiency, and taking lessons from history in Building Design.

Webb Yates Engineers — Shaping our new office through reuse

More than half our old furniture is now in our new office, and it cost less than 20% of the original fit-out.

Thought Leadership

08.12.25

Shaping our new office through reuse

How we moved office without sending our old fit-out to landfill, salvaging 80% of the original timber and rebuilding the space piece by piece through reuse.

Webb Yates Engineers — The engineering that sets Niwa House apart

Engineering and architecture aligned to create a house worthy of the Stirling Prize shortlist.

Thought Leadership

10.09.25

The engineering that sets Niwa House apart

Liam Bryant discusses how innovation in stone and timber helped Niwa House earn a place on the Stirling Prize shortlist.

Webb Yates Engineers — Engineering the future: Rethinking systems, reducing carbon

We need to design systems that work harder, for longer, with less.

Thought Leadership

25.07.25

Engineering the future: Rethinking systems, reducing carbon

Elisa Sartori explores how low-carbon solutions are about what we leave out in Building Design.