Scaling up Soft Landings
Soft Landings can help us #Buildbackbetter As we emerge from the Coronavirus lockdown and start to resume something approximating ‘normal’ life, the need to understand building performance and ensure our […]
Author: Carrie Behar
Call for Abstracts – Social Value
Members of the UP team, Judith Sykes and Carrie Behar, are editing a themed issue of the ICE’s Engineering Sustainability journal, on the topic of Social Value in Infrastructure Delivery. […]
Low Energy Retrofit of UK Housing
Design professionals have enormous potential to make a positive impact when working on low energy refurbishment projects, but are also faced with a multitude of challenges, including limited budgets and […]
POE of The Clove
In August 2016 Useful Projects and the other Useful Simple Trust (UST) companies relocated to a new office in The Clove Building, near Tower Bridge. This gave us the opportunity […]
Transforming University Estates
Last week, Carrie Behar attended the University of London’s Zero Carbon Challenge event, where a team of committed professionals worked together to ‘crowd source’ an ambitious sustainability strategy for the […]
10 Reasons to Cycle
With Britain facing an obesity crisis and physical inactivity contributing to almost one in 10 premature deaths in England, encouraging more people to take up active travel has never been […]
VeloCity at Green Sky Thinking 2018
VeloCity collaborators at Green Sky Thinking’s Live Magazine 2018 VeloCity collaborators are taking part in a discussion panel that will bring different views on social networks, in the upcoming Green […]
VeloCity Competition Winner
VeloCity chosen for Oxford to Cambridge growth competition: new concept village centres on walking and cycling We are delighted that the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has announced our ‘VeloCity’ team […]
Modular Aquaponics
We are delighted to share that our proposal for a modular aquaponic urban farm has been shortlisted at the World Architecture Festival 2017, taking place in November. The project is a […]
Green Sky Thinking Week
Useful Projects and Expedition Engineering are delighted to announce that we’ll be taking part in this year’s Green Sky Thinking event, taking place in London from 15-19 May 2017. Loosefit vs […]
Green Sky Thinking Review
A week on from Green Sky Thinking 2016, Carrie Behar reflects on her experience of this year’s events. At the Useful Simple Trust we are passionate about blazing a trail […]
Carrie Behar joins USP
Carrie joined USP in August 2015 as a Senior Sustainability Consultant. Starting a new job whilst in the final throes of finishing a 4 year PhD programme may not sound […]
