Simply put, sustainability is the capacity to endure. Yet, we live in an age of greenwash marketing where a cacophony of ‘sustainababble’ has undermined the sustainable concept. Darren Evans of Darren Evans Assessments explains more.

When Tom Hogg commissioned a new £6m office building and data centre for his software firm CDL, he handed Edge Architects a sustainability brief with standards that exceeded those demanded by current building regulations.

As one door closes, another opens. Or, in the case of Sunderland College, as one building at the end of its lifespan is demolished, two state-of-the-art buildings are created to replace it.

As construction of the bespoke, managed workspace development Blyth Workspace concludes, once vacant land at Commissioners Quay on the estuary of the River Blyth in Northumberland is steadily being transformed into a much anticipated mixed-use development.

Trapezoidal pavilion roofs and facades, clad in a golden copper alloy, define the welcoming character of a new children’s nursery building designed with a firm sustainability agenda in mind, as copper producer Aurubis explains.