Camley Street Natural Park, a nature reserve run by London Wildlife Trust in King’s Cross, London, has been awarded the UK MAB Urban Forum’s Award for Excellence. The award celebrates the site for ‘creating an exemplary space to encounter nature in the heart of the city and continuing to inspire others to do the same’.

The nature reserve, sited on the banks of the Regent's Canal, provides almost a hectare of wild green space in the heart of London. The site is free to visit and is popular with local residents and schools as well as the many people who work around King’s Cross.

British Sugar TOPSOIL, the UK’s largest supplier of topsoil to the construction, landscaping and amenity sectors, is the first, and only, topsoil manufacturer to have its product accepted as a BIM (Building Information Modelling) Object within the NBS National BIM Library. Planners, architects and construction professionals now have direct and immediate online access to the product’s data, which they can import into their project’s BIM-enabled software.

Carbon Zero Consulting is delighted to launch its new website, designed to showcase the company’s breadth and depth of expertise in all areas of renewable energy technology and water and environment management. The new website at www.carbonzeroco.com provides a valuable source of information relating to renewable energy solutions including ground source heating and cooling technologies for which Carbon Zero Consulting is a leading provider throughout the UK.

A conference which will explore how buildings and spaces are designed to reduce negative impacts on the environment is to be held at Leeds Beckett University.

The international conference, Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) will take place on 17-18 September and is hosted by the Leeds Sustainability Institute at Leeds Beckett, with keynote speakers, workshops and presentations focusing on how to address the balance between the built and the natural environment.