All Sustainability articles – Page 149
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NewsBeyond ground source heat pumps
Consulting engineer Fulcrum is trialling the use of an active cooling system from the Continent which it reckons could be part of the answer to the urgent need for renewable energy sources in city centres
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Investor makes Energy Performance Certificates pledge
PRUPIM strikes deal with Royal & SunAlliance to provide EPCs for all its property portfolio ahead of legislation next year
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New sustainable property fund launched
DTZ teams up with Kenmore Property Group and Forum for the Future to create European office fund
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NewsHomeowners don’t know how to make homes greener
Survey finds 60% of homeowners are unaware of simple measures to make homes energy efficient
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NewsProtesters remain at Kent power station
Greenpeace activists have continued their protest overnight at Kingsnorth power station, 18 have been arrested
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NewsFuturistic bird centre to land in Teeside
Saltholme lakeside project for RSPB will incoporate both aircraft construction techniques and rammed earth construction
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Price & Myers sustainability boss joins WSP
Prashant Kapoor moves to engineering group to head sustainable planning and research team
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NewsGreenpeace activists storm Kent power plant
Over 50 protesters have broken into Kingsnorth power plant to protest at plans for a new coal-fired station on the site
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NewsArchitect's new office wins RIBA award
Architype's Upper Twyford Barn sustainable building in Hereford praised for being elegant and durable
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NewsLetwin lobbies on zero carbon definition chaos
Tory MP writes to Chancellor to demand clarification on stamp duty exemption
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NewsZero-carbon homes shock as national grid energy barred
Government says off-site sources ‘not eligible unless directly connected to the development’
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NewsEco-town contenders mark out possible brownfield sites
Manchester and Birmingham head list of local authorities gearing up for eco-town bids
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FeaturesSweden's green utopia
This new Stockholm suburb demonstrates how simple, robust, centralised systems can outperform flashy designs bristling with turbines. But can it work as a model for Gordon Brown’s eco-towns?
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NewsNew software released to measure embodied energy
Edinburgh consultant develops tools for carbon measurement which has already been used by contractor Willmott Dixon
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NewsSustainable office on a shoestring
Web exclusive: Here’s a new office in Manchester that’s making sustainable virtues out of a tight budget. Will Jones reports on the planned Hive building for developer Argent
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NewsLend Lease boss urges industry to measure its footprint
Labbad stresses the need for companies to report their environmental performance as his firm reveals its own carbon impact
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NewsNottingham students build eco home
Midlands university students create C60 house with super insultation and efficient ventilation
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NewsGalliford Try picked for major carbon neutral scheme
English Partnerships selects housebuilder and Affinity Sutton Group as preferred bidder on regeneration project
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NewsIndustry backs waste recycling regulations
Government report finds 75% support measures to tackle illegal waste disposal