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FeaturesSteel sustainability FAQs
The British Constructional Steelwork Association and Steel for Life, with the support of the Steel Construction Institute, have produced answers to 11 frequently asked questions from specifiers on steel, sustainability and climate change
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Features
Michael Gove and housing: what you need to know
Michael Gove is a political heavy-weight and household name, but what do we know about his views on housing, planning and the environment?
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Features
Steeling ourselves for climate change
In the second in our series on materials, Thomas Lane looks at the ways in which the steel industry can reduce its carbon emissions
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Comment
Countdown to COP26: Timber is a panacea but use it wisely
Timber is widely regarded as the obvious solution in the quest for a sustainable construction material, but it is not as simple as that
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HS2 starts work to turn historic Birmingham station into a visitor centre
Old Curzon Street Station will be worked into plan for railway’s Birmingham terminus
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Enfield council’s energy firm awarded £24m to extend low-carbon heat network
Energetik will expand its existing network and and link up to the £1.2bn energy-from-waste facility at Edmonton Eco Park
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Foster says architects ‘can’t walk away’ from airport projects
Architect said profession has a responsilbity to decarbonise buildings used for transport
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Prime minister told to publicly fund national retrofit scheme
Cost of work will deter households from carrying out improvements, letter to Boris Johnson warns
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Heat pump firms on notice for £2bn zero carbon framework
Deal will also cater for ventilation specialists
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Government publishes long-awaited hydrogen strategy
Plan includes grants to help building firms shift from fossil fuels
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Government considering £7,000 grants for heat pumps
Ministers looking at quadrupling funding for existing Clean Heats Grants scheme and extending it by a year
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Council cuts Hammersmith Bridge repair costs by 80% after swapping Pell Frischmann for Mott MacDonald
Move to slash £24m from job to permanently reopen the bridge to pedestrians
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Transport department launches toolkit for better-value rail projects
Network Rail and the Office of Rail and Road also worked on new platform
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Kwarteng backs drive to qualify thousands of heat pump installers as gas boilers are phased out
Body behind three-day training says 40,000 plumbers could be reskilled a year
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Construction firms on notice as House of Lords moves take step forward
Industry asked for feedback on proposals to repurpose the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre as part of parliament’s £12bn restoration
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Southampton airport expansion grounded after legal challenge
Campaign group said council had ’underplayed’ the scheme’s environmental impact
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Green Homes Grant reboot must be long term for it to work, government told
Industry critical of ‘damage’ caused by failed short term retrofit scheme
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AHMM unveils plans for ‘biophilic’ City office tower
Scheme will replace 1980s buildings near Shoreditch and Whitechapel fringe
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Government in talks to bring back failed Green Homes Grant retrofit scheme
Business secretary admitted the scrapped £2bn programme had been ‘problematic’
