All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles – Page 48
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NewsHLM set to double retrofit work amid booming market
University clients among those opting for refurbs over new builds
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NewsLaing O’Rourke appoints first sustainability boss
Vicky Bullivant was previously head of sustainable business at Drax Group
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NewsGovernment boosts funding for rail upgrades by £401m
Investment worth £317m will go to electrifying the Transpennine route in net zero push
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NewsCementation wins £93m HS2 job
Groundworks specialist to cut 1km box through central London for approach to Euston station
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NewsMinisters accused of ‘Soviet-style’ planning to replace gas boilers
Boiler manufacturers could be forced to make heat pumps and penalised if they fail to sell enough
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NewsHinkley Point to hire 1,700 people in covid bounce back
Move comes as project looks to make up time after social distancing rules hit productivity
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NewsCLC wants industry’s views on tracking net zero progress
Findings will inform criteria for judging firms’ carbon cutting efforts
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CommentCarbon neutrality and the law
For the government’s stringent emissions targets to be met will require not only further legislation but also changes in contract clauses and regulatory practices
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NewsCrossrail renews construction push following trial running delay
Testing of trains along the route started last week, six weeks after originally scheduled
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NewsNew state-controlled body to run rail projects
Transport secretary commits to more infrastructure investment in biggest shake-up since privatisation
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NewsLuton council denies scaling back airport expansion plans
Second terminal will now be built at a ‘later stage in the process’
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NewsKeller’s HS2 work delayed by protestors and covid
Job is on the section of railway between Chiltern tunnels and south Warwickshire
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NewsCostain Skanska team picked up £100m from Crossrail last year
Late-running scheme handed firms £450m in nine-month period, new figures show
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Information - BuildingOn-demand webinar | What does a national retrofit strategy mean for UK construction?
This webinar is available on demand for free
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NewsProblems at Bond Street putting Crossrail opening at risk, Jacobs warns
Paddington contractor Costain Skanska also meeting railway bosses three times a week over productivity concerns
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News‘Step change’ in productivity needed to build government’s infrastructure ambitions, industry told
IPA chief says 40% improvement in productivity needed as ‘prerequisite’ to build £600bn pipeline
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NewsGovernment’s chief infrastructure advisor casts doubt on next phase of HS2
Nick Smallwood says for link to go ahead rail passenger numbers need to recover to pre-covid levels
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CommentHydrogen is not a silver bullet solution
Hydrogen is seen as the Swiss Army knife of net zero solutions – but is it really?
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 17: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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NewsHS2 launches first giant tunnelling machine to dig under Chiltern Hills
2000-tonne machine named after Florence Nightingale will operate as a self-contained underground factory