All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles – Page 49
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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NewsGalliford Try starts on £10m makeover of Perry Barr station ahead of Commonwealth Games
Scheme likened by one councillor to a ‘high quality garden shed’
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CommentCountdown to COP26: A good start – but still a long way to go
As momentum builds towards COP26, developers are making impressive-sounding commitments with their net zero pathways and strategies
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NewsLight at the end of the tunnel as Crossrail finally enters key testing phase
Delayed railway due to open in first half of next year
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FeaturesThe urgency of now: how can construction meet its green targets?
A report by the Climate Change Committee sets out a host of ambitious carbon reduction targets and points to where resources need to be focused. Thomas Lane looks at three of the areas of most interest to construction and assesses what it will take to meet the targets
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CommentFocus on design is critical as the optimism grows
Confidence is returning to the industry. We must use the renewed energy to ensure that we build in a responsible and resilient way, says Sadie Morgan
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NewsCoup for Mace as firm wins £570m Birmingham HS2 station
Curzon Street deal means contractor is building both start and finish stations on first section of route
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CommentCarbon targets have been set – now the hard work really starts
Turning well-meaning words about climate change into measurable action requires fundamental change across the industry, writes Mark Farmer