All Sustainability articles – Page 50
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FeaturesCarillion's purchase of Eaga: Blinded by the sun
In April, Carillion bought Eaga - a company with big plans to install PV panels on 30,000 homes - and rebranded it as Carillion Energy Services. Seven months later, government feed-in tariffs have been cut in half, and all 4,500 jobs are on the line. So was the £298m purchase ...
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FeaturesA lot to live up to: Building houses that meet predicted energy use
The gap between a house’s predicted energy use and actual performance has been comprehensively panned. Building meets three developers who reckon their projects will show that low carbon on paper can mean low carbon in practice
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CommentWhat skills will SMEs need to prepare for the Green Deal?
The first report has been published on the skills needed for Green Deal retrofits, and Mark Farrar explains what this means for SMEs
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NewsCarillion to pull out of fitting solar PV panels
Contractor will exit solar PV installation market and outsource future work to SMEs
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NewsTwo contractors set to guarantee energy performance
Skanska and Willmott Dixon in talks over inserting clauses in contracts to guarantee energy performance of buildings
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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%