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It's all KICA-ing off at Kelham Island

KICA is the Kelham Island Community Association. It’s been going for ages now, but over the past couple of years it’s kicked it up a notch (pun very much intended) and had a massive positive impact on the Kelham Island Community.

KICA are getting Kelham Islands out of their apartments and into the s…

Accelerate - The week's round up of climate change innovation

Accelerate is our weekly briefing on the new sustainable technologies which will help us solve climate change.

This week we had some sensational news thanks to the release of data on wind power auctions, where builders of wind turbines bid against one another to agree a price to supply power to th…

Meet the Plumber

At Citu, we don't accept things the way they are.

We make them better.

That means finding better ways of building houses. Better for the people buying them, and better for the people building them.

We call it the Citu Squad. It means you'll be working in a tight-knit team that all pulls together a…

Accelerate – The week’s round up of climate change innovation.

Climate change is a huge global problem. We’re trying to do our part by changing the way houses are built to make them far more efficient and sustainable. But we’re not going to solve it alone, far from it.

Too often with climate change the enormity of the problem makes us feel powerless. This leav…

Is your house stuck in the 1950s?

According to data from the English housing survey, the average UK house is over 60 years old.

60 years ago, cars did 14 miles to the gallon, phones had dial plates and computers were the size of offices.

Close to every aspect of our lives has been revolutionised by innovation. Computers are billi…

Why build homes from timber?

Our mission is to accelerate the transition to zero carbon cities. We always knew it was going to be a big challenge, and that to do it we couldn’t use the same old construction techniques which haven’t been improved on for decades.

So we did the smartest thing you can do when faced with an enormous…

Petrol & diesel obsolete by 2040? How about 2020.

You probably heard recently that the government will be banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2040 onwards. Our goal is to accelerate the transition to zero carbon cities, so we were happy that the government decided to set a date where the internal combustion engine will be a thing of…

Your chance to live in the Wedge at Little Kelham

Fancy living in the centre of Sheffield whilst helping tackle climate change? We’ve got just the thing! Funny that.

The Wedge is an exciting mix of houses and flats, whose iconic shape means every home is a different size, so there are two and three bedroom homes available to match your budget.
Situa…

Climate Innovation District wins housing design awards 2017

We're thrilled to announce that our Climate Innovation District phase 2 just won the 2017 Housing Design Awards! These awards have been running since 1948 and really are the Oscars for housing design fanatics like us. Normally it's London developments that take the top spots, but this year we manage…

Stew kid on the block at Little Kelham

Later this summer the Stew & Oyster will open at the Little Kelham Clock Tower.

It’s an exciting landmark for the development - not only will it represent the first business moving into Little Kelham, but it’ll also be the first major addition to the western side of the site, with the Clock Towe…

Why we’re happy to be a part of the South Bank renaissance in Leeds

A short video of our time at Leeds Waterfront Festival

The Leeds Waterfront Festival was perhaps the best demonstration of what makes the South Bank of Leeds so vibrant.

We were also there talking about the Climate Innovation District, which will be one of the biggest new additions to a part of Le…

Citu at Leeds Waterfront Festival

We've created a video to help you find us over the weekend

To help you find your way to the Citu locations across the waterfront, we've created this quick video with the Waterfront Festival organiser, Sue Jennings and Citu's Head of Digital & Marketing, Kevin Gillespie.

What we're doing at the …

Leeds artist to bring the Climate Innovation District to life

Keeping it local

We’ve teamed up with a local street artist to bring an alternative interpretation of the work we’re carrying out at the Climate Innovation District.

Bringing his unique style of slogans and graphics to the Climate Innovation District, Hyro Graff will create two dramatic billboards t…

We're getting Eagle Works making again in Little Kelham

The future of Eagle Works in the Making

We’re in the process of finalising a plan for the ground floor of Eagle Works and we’re looking forward to sharing our vision with everyone soon.

The upper floors of Eagle Works will be home to a variety of businesses, with light and airy dual aspect workspac…

Our online journey just got better

Welcome to our new website - we hope you like it as much as we do.

Far from a simple refresh, our new website is a completely new design which has been many months in the planning. We’re really excited about how the new Citu website will help people find out more about our developments in exciting, …

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