All Sustainability articles – Page 52
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FMB: 'Green Deal installers need to be able to self-certify work'
Alignment of standards is needed to keep costs down says FMB and CITB-Construction Skills
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Energy boss: 'PV subsidies a waste of government funds'
PV panels are not efficient enough to justify investment, says chief executive of RWN npower
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Turner & Townsend to manage London energy retrofit scheme
Firm will oversee roll out key priority for mayor Boris Johnson in contract worth £2.67m
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Bradford student digs awarded highest ever BREEAM rating
Student halls built by GB Building awarded 95.05% score
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Skanska wins £50m City development
Fletcher Priest-designed building scheduled to complete in autumn 2013 with work to begin immediately
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Members of government's Green Construction Board announced
Members include 15 drawn from firms including Wates, Arup, Skanska and Balfour Beatty
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Collapse of carbon capture deal branded 'farce'
WWF slams ‘four wasted years’ as Department for Energy and Climate Change seeks a fresh pilot
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Construction firms could get green tax exemptions
Chancellor plans to reduce burden on companies with high energy needs
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Zero carbon housing using underfloor thermal heat stores
When you’ve got houses and flats on a tiny plot, no room to store fuel and little roof space, finding a zero-carbon heating solution is tricky. One team went underground to find the answer
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Government ‘schizophrenia’ undermining green investment, MPs warn
Parliamentary committee tells climate minister Greg Barker not to backtrack
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£1bn carbon capture pilot 'axed'
Report says Scottish Power due to pull out of flagship Longannet scheme
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Delivering low carbon buildings in practice
We’re very good at delivering low-carbon buildings on paper, but when it comes to actual performance, we’re where we were 20 years ago. Richard Guy says it’s time to get serious
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Sustainability: Building structures
In-use energy consumption is well regulated, so should we now consider embodied carbon? Isabel McAllister and Anthony Mitchell of Cyril Sweett, Steve Webb and Anna Beckett of Webb Yates report
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Work begins on world's largest solar bridge
The first solar panels have been installed on the roof of Blackfriars Station
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Carillion joins high street names in Green Deal push
Consortium of banks and energy giants to offer finance
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Right to renewable energy: Solar eclipse
There is no law guaranteeing a right to energy from renewable sources, meaning that users could have their work undone by a developer plonking a building in their sunlight
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‘Prepare buildings for global warming’, says government
Builders and homeowners to be called on to take measures against ‘inevitable’ rising temperatures
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Who's to blame for our lack of zero-carbon homes?
Are housebuilders failing to build to zero-carbon standards - as suggested by minister Andrew Stunell - or is the failure to build due to a flaw in the targets?
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Dan Labbad to co-chair Green Construction Board
Government board to drive sustainability will meet for the first time “later in the autumn”
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Top industry names appointed to minister's carbon compliance committee
Paul Morrell and HBF’s John Slaughter among those to examine how targets can be hit