All Sustainability articles – Page 69
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NewsBoost for green buildings with £4.9m research contest
Design teams offered contracts of up to £100k to come up with strategies to cope with climate change
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Government zero-carbon targets 'unrealistic'
Survey of 7,000 property professionals show three-quarters doubt feasibility of green plans
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NewsGovernment to pull funding from zero-carbon housing body
Grant Shapps, the housing minister, has signalled his intention to halt government funding for an independent body that was set up to help deliver zero-carbon housing
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CPA launches guide for greening existing housing
Guide to low carbon refurbishment includes case studies and advice on improving floors, walls and roofs
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NewsSavills offers PV advice on feed-in tariffs
Property firm teams up with Solarcentury to encourage developers to make most of feed-in tariffs
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NewsMulalley bags £2.1m Hoxton housing job
Seven-storey scheme will feature green roof, a biomass boiler and sustainable drainage
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NewsBLP launches sustainability tool
Software package is intended to simplify decision making at design stage
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FeaturesEmbodied energy: The next big carbon challenge
Reducing the amount of embodied energy in building materials won’t be easy – but it’s essential
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FeaturesMainstream green: Brighton belle
One Brighton is the brainchild of the team behind super-green development BedZed. But although sustainability is at the heart of the scheme, it’s going to do it its own sweet way
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NewsODA scraps plans for Olympic turbine
Major part of 2012’s sustainability plan is cancelled because new safety legislation has deterred potential contractors
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CommentPassivhaus: the power of shared ideas
A road trip to Dresden reinforces the Passivhaus ethos – and provides an ego boost
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NewsMay Gurney wins £60m of waste and recycling work
Infrastructure support services company will work for West Oxfordshire and North Yorkshire councils over seven years
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NewsCoalition maintains zero-carbon commitment
Conservative-Lib Dem government confirms that from 2016 all new homes will be zero-carbon
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NewsBerkeley pledges to achieve green standard on all schemes
First move by new boss is to ensure housebuilder meets silver Building for Life criteria across portfolio
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NewsPioneering biodiversity scheme launched
Project, paid for by developers, aims to create wildlife habitats, provide flood mitigation and store carbon
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NewsCow dung to power data centres
Hewlett-Packard is developing methane-powered data centres to be sited at dairy farms
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FeaturesPositive thinking: Masdar HQ
The seven-storey Masdar Headquarters, under construction outside Abu Dhabi, will be the world’s first large building that generates more energy than it consumes
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Coalition scraps Hips
Housing minister announces plan to ’cut pointless red tape’ by dropping information pack requirement
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National Grid to seek £3.2bn for green upgrade
Rights issue-funded adaptation of existing network is planned to create about 5,000 new jobs
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Heatherwick's new bus design revealed
Transport for London hopes 'new routemaster' will be in service by 2012