All Sustainability articles – Page 49
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Features
Carillion's purchase of Eaga: Blinded by the sun
In April, Carillion bought Eaga - a company with big plans to install PV panels on 30,000 homes - and rebranded it as Carillion Energy Services. Seven months later, government feed-in tariffs have been cut in half, and all 4,500 jobs are on the line. So was the £298m purchase ...
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Comment
What skills will SMEs need to prepare for the Green Deal?
The first report has been published on the skills needed for Green Deal retrofits, and Mark Farrar explains what this means for SMEs
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Carillion to pull out of fitting solar PV panels
Contractor will exit solar PV installation market and outsource future work to SMEs
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Two contractors set to guarantee energy performance
Skanska and Willmott Dixon in talks over inserting clauses in contracts to guarantee energy performance of buildings
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Skanska boss: 'Don't wait for government to drive green agenda'
Skanska’s chief executive has said green skills can be a driver for the growth the government craves
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Solar installations surge 300% to meet FITs deadline
Solar firms report huge jump in business in what is likely to be the last month of the current tariff rate
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Bam picked for £15m Scottish Water operations centre
Reiach & Hall-designed office scheme is highly sustainable and will cover 7,300m2 over four storeys
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No legal ruling to FITs cut until next year
A legal challenge to the government’s plans to cut solar subsidies will not be heard until after the consultation on the plans closes
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One retrofit needed every minute to meet 2050 green targets
Report criticised performance gap between effectiveness of energy efficiency measures and designed performance
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Features
Hydropower: Water works
With all the controversy over solar, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that hydropower produces a thousand times more electricity. Building investigates a power source that could light up the industry
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Comment
Green Deal proposals: Deal or no deal?
The government wants to reduce our utility bills and cut emissions at no cost to itself. Its answer is the Green Deal, published last week: get private investors to offer loans to pay for insulation. So what kind of reaction have the proposals received?
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Bam Nuttall wins job on £120m energy scheme
New energy plant for E.ON will covert recycled wood waste into energy
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Breyer Group reveals scale of damage after FITs cut
Multi-million pound contracts with Colchester and Islington councils in doubt after Peabody cancellation
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Autumn statement is ‘missed opportunity’, says Green Building Council
Disappointment as no more Green Deal incentives appear in Osborne’s announcement
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Government's Green Deal jobs estimate falls by 35,000
Wildly varying estimates for job creation levels represent ‘best and worst case scenarios’, government claims
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Renewable heat subsidy to create 500,000 jobs
Incentives to increase the affordability of installations of renewable heat systems will result in 126,000 installations by 2020, claims government
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BDP designing major biomass power plant near Sheffield
Multi-disciplinary firm working with Bam Nuttall on £120m scheme for E.ON
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Skanska reveals detailed housing designs
Swedish contractor starts work on its first housing scheme in the UK, an estate of Scandinavian-style homes in Cambridge,
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Thermal upgrade
Homes in Damer Court, Wellington Street, Dublin, have been thermally upgraded with the addition of weber.therm External Wall Insulation (EWI) and render system.
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Quick solar PV installation
Crompton Solar has launched a “plug and play” range of its Solar PV system to make installation easier.