All Sustainability articles – Page 50
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NewsSkanska boss: 'Don't wait for government to drive green agenda'
Skanska’s chief executive has said green skills can be a driver for the growth the government craves
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NewsSolar installations surge 300% to meet FITs deadline
Solar firms report huge jump in business in what is likely to be the last month of the current tariff rate
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NewsBam picked for £15m Scottish Water operations centre
Reiach & Hall-designed office scheme is highly sustainable and will cover 7,300m2 over four storeys
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NewsNo legal ruling to FITs cut until next year
A legal challenge to the government’s plans to cut solar subsidies will not be heard until after the consultation on the plans closes
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NewsOne retrofit needed every minute to meet 2050 green targets
Report criticised performance gap between effectiveness of energy efficiency measures and designed performance
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NewsBam Nuttall wins job on £120m energy scheme
New energy plant for E.ON will covert recycled wood waste into energy
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CommentGreen Deal proposals: Deal or no deal?
The government wants to reduce our utility bills and cut emissions at no cost to itself. Its answer is the Green Deal, published last week: get private investors to offer loans to pay for insulation. So what kind of reaction have the proposals received?
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FeaturesHydropower: Water works
With all the controversy over solar, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that hydropower produces a thousand times more electricity. Building investigates a power source that could light up the industry
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NewsBreyer Group reveals scale of damage after FITs cut
Multi-million pound contracts with Colchester and Islington councils in doubt after Peabody cancellation
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NewsAutumn statement is ‘missed opportunity’, says Green Building Council
Disappointment as no more Green Deal incentives appear in Osborne’s announcement
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NewsGovernment's Green Deal jobs estimate falls by 35,000
Wildly varying estimates for job creation levels represent ‘best and worst case scenarios’, government claims
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NewsRenewable heat subsidy to create 500,000 jobs
Incentives to increase the affordability of installations of renewable heat systems will result in 126,000 installations by 2020, claims government
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NewsBDP designing major biomass power plant near Sheffield
Multi-disciplinary firm working with Bam Nuttall on £120m scheme for E.ON
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NewsSkanska reveals detailed housing designs
Swedish contractor starts work on its first housing scheme in the UK, an estate of Scandinavian-style homes in Cambridge,
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NewsMPs back FIT campaign to protect 25,000 solar jobs
MPs joined 300 campaigners calling on government to change plans to cut solar feed-in tariff by 50%
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NewsRIBA: Architects should charge extra for green design
Call from the RIBA’s director of practice to follow US model to create greater ‘transparency’
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NewsLeading museums plan pioneering energy network
Mott MacDonald working on £32m scheme, which could be rolled out across government estate
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Wireless energy management systems
Energy Management Systems company Seamless Sensing has launched two products, one that measures energy usage and the other room air quality