All Sustainability articles – Page 15
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FeaturesSustainability: Wellbeing
A preoccupation with health and fitness is no longer just for Januarys, it is becoming ever present in the way buildings are designed and constructed
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NewsStephen Fry to be special guest at Ecobuild 2016
Writer and actor to be interviewed on second day of construction and energy show
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NewsSolar firm to build 8,000 homes with Chinese firm
WElink Energy and China National Building Materials announce £1.1bn deal to build 8,000 affordable zero carbon homes in sites across UK
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NewsUKGBC plans to close 'performance gap'
UKGBC embarks on project to ensure buildings live up to standards promised by developers
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NewsConsultant JV lands major Thames Tideway contract
Heavyweight JV will provide design and engineering services for Bam, Balfour and Morgan Sindall
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NewsFeed-in tariff cut plans could risk half of solar sector jobs
Impact assessment warns up to 18,700 jobs could be lost as a result of proposed 64% cuts
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CommentWho turned up the heat?
Meeting carbon budgets outlined at the Paris Climate Conference is a regulation the UK might actually feel the effects of
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NewsUp to 19,000 jobs on the line from FITs cut
Government impact assessment reveals potential full impact of the subsidy cut
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NewsThree key priorities for Green Deal review
Review leader Peter Bonfield speaks exclusively to Building about recommendations to be published next April
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NewsGovernment backtracks on FITs cuts
Green subsidy to be cut by 64%, rather than the 87% reduction originally proposed
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NewsUK 'must do more' after Paris climate agreement
CBI calls on UK to do more to promote cleaner energy
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NewsRenewables face VAT hike
Government launches consultation proposing tax increase for rooftop solar panels and wind turbines to comply with EU law
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FeaturesParis summit: Feeling the heat
At this week’s UN Climate Change Summit, the UK could no longer boast of having the greenest policies in the room. So after several months of Conservative policy changes, how is the country measuring up to its own targets?
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CommentFloods reaction: Simon Rawlinson, Arcadis UK
Given the events following Storm Desmond the need to reassess flood risk assumptions is clear – so that the right investments are made in the future and so the public better understands the problem
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CommentFloods reaction: Will McBain, Arup
The victims of the 2015 Cumbria floods should not be abandoned to their fates, particularly when there is a growing body of evidence that we are all culpable
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CommentFloods reaction: Sue Illman, CIC Champion for Flood Mitigation
While none of us want to spread unnecessary doom and gloom, no-one connected to the water industry is in any doubt about the problems we face
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FeaturesEnvironment Agency on flooding: 'We're doing our bit. Are you doing yours?'
The director of strategy and investment joined industry experts to debate flood preparedness in the UK
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NewsUK firms pledge carbon reduction at Paris summit
At Buildings Day at global climate summit contractors and developers pledge to limit emissions
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NewsCrest Nicholson UK’s ‘greenest housebuilder’
Firm ranked ahead of Barratt and Lendlease in report, written by HCA, Jones Lang LaSalle and the UKGBC
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CommentProtect infrastructure investment
We need to develop proactive strategies to protect ourselves from flooding