All Sustainability articles – Page 130
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NewsPoplar green housing scheme go-ahead - images
Cole Thompson Anders’ designed east London scheme offers 100% affordable housing
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NewsWorld’s first eco-festival
Cabe's climate change festival will explore how we plan, design and use our cities
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CommentThe makeover manifesto
Open mike — A refurbishment revolution is needed if we stand any chance of cutting carbon 60% by 2050. And it may have just begun in a stable in Watford … Kate Symons explains
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NewsA pale green housing policy
Government policy on home energy efficiency must take a much more radical approach if the UK is to meet its climate change targets
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NewsZero-carbon housing kit: RuralZed explained
RuralZed is a zero-carbon housing kit for affordable low to medium-density developments that, its makers say, will meet the Code for Sustainable Homes from level three up to six and beyond. Here’s how it’s done.
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Kerslake steps in to shake up eco-towns initiative
Boss of housing superagency to vet applications, as consultation on sites faces fresh delay
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TwelveStars gives petrol stations an eco-lift
Consultant sets out to make Cepsa petrol station across Spain and Portugal green
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CommentThe eco echo
View from Whitehall: A repeated refrain has been directed at the communities department in recent months: that it fails to deliver on key objectives. Now, it must work hard to make sure that eco-towns strike the right note, says Nick Raynsford
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NewsSo that’s how it’s done
Construction has begun on Eureka, a sustainable office building in Kent for developer Quadrant Estates.
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Bovis Lend Lease bags £130m green Sky project
Broadcaster plans to put its sports channel in new low-carbon west London headquarters
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Hips energy assessors earn less than £10,000
Most energy performance certifiers inspect just over one home per day at a rate of £30-45
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NewsCar journeys cut to 25% in new eco-towns
Government recommends managed and limited car access in ten planned towns
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NewsThe rise of the boiler
With the implementation of EPCs next month, boiler inspections could soon be an important issue for owners and occupiers, says Lovells' Simon Keen
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NewsFirst estimates of EPC costs revealed
Leading providers claim certificates will set back building owners anywhere between £500 to over £20,000
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BRE creates new sustainable product standard
Global arm of standards outfit to consult on assessing products by lifecycle analysis, biodiversity and labour practice in manufacturing process
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NewsSustainable TV: Jones Lang LaSalle boss interview part one
Colin Dyer, the boss of one of the world's biggest property consultants, Jones Lang LaSalle chief executive talks sustainability
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Sustainable TV: The newspaper house
See the unveiling of artist Sumer Erek's art installation, which was revealed to the public in Dalston, north east London, earlier this month
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NewsArup's Cambridge University site gets green light
£9.5m Institute for Manufacturing building first at the university to have biomass boiler
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NewsScotland opens £90m biomass power station
Steven's Croft in Lockerbie could more than doubles Scotland's biomass electricity
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NewsThink confirms leading green figurehead speakers
Herbert Girardet and Ché Wall amongst keynote speakers at the Think 2008 conference