All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles – Page 39
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FeaturesCobBauge: what on earth is going on?
An Anglo-French alliance is using subsoil and straw to demonstrate how low energy construction on housing projects can be made commercially viable. Thomas Lane reports
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NewsWates and T&T plugged in for work at electric car battery plant
Scheme will be built close to Nissan factory at Sunderland
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NewsGovernment mandates 30% cut in carbon for all new buildings
Revised Building Regulations mean reducing carbon emissions by a third from this summer
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FeaturesNorth and Midlands pledge to build on broken rail promises
Scaling back HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail puts levelling up in doubt. Is there a fight back for a fairer share of infrastructure spend?
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NewsAecom lands role on £1bn net zero programme
Firm to guide innovations to help homes achieve net zero
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NewsMajor projects to be hit by ‘mammoth’ admin burden from aggregate levy reforms
PwC says proposals to remove tax exemption for gravel pits could become law as soon as March
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CommentCost is key but solving the climate crisis comes first
The social and environmental costs of getting project choices wrong have never been greater
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NewsISG wins £65m office revamp next door to Millennium Bridge
Scheme by architect Piercy & Co involves giving makeover to 1980s building
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NewsEnergy costs to push prices up, Arcadis warns
Consultant says firms can expect cost of bricks, glass and cement to continue heading north
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NewsA slam-dunk fail: watchdog MPs launch scathing attack on green homes grant
Public accounts committee ‘not convinced’ that business department grasps full scale of the scheme’s failure
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NewsOsborne chalks up £21m refurb job on grade II-listed City building
Finsbury Circus’ Electra House was centre of secret WW2 spying operation
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NewsLocal leaders ask government to look at ways to build full £39bn Northern Powerhouse Rail line
Open letter from Transport for the North follows decision to downgrade Liverpool to Leeds route
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NewsGovernment has ‘fundamentally got it wrong’ on hydrogen, Teesside mayor says
Ben Houchen slams officials for ‘playing it safe’ in last month’s heat and buildings strategy
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NewsFirms not doing enough to decarbonise property estates, Mace warns
Survey says almost a quarter of business leaders think COP26 will have no long-term impact
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CommentWe need to act now to sustain the old as much as the new
New buildings are increasingly designed to mitigate the effects of climate change but historic buildings require and deserve just as much attention
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FeaturesMaking waves: how Rugby Radio Station was retuned as a secondary school
The initial plan had been to convert Rugby Radio Station into the heart of a 6,200-home estate, but there was a shortage of secondary schools in the area and master developer Urban & Civic had other ideas, Thomas Lane visits Houlton School
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FeaturesMeet Ben Houchen: the man putting the power back into Teesside
The Conservative mayor is spearheading Teesside’s net zero revolution - listen to the full audio interview here
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NewsAll new buildings to have electric vehicle charge points from next year
Details to be announced by PM later today
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NewsGreen light for temporary HS2 construction college and site office
Camden scheme will be demolished after 10 years to make way for railway’s new central London lines
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FeaturesGoodbye to The Godfather: Steve Pycroft interview
As Mace chairman Steve Pycroft prepares to bow out, he will be remembered above all else as the man who delivered the Shard – and delivered it in style.