All Sustainability articles – Page 50
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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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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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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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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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NewsThermal upgrade
Homes in Damer Court, Wellington Street, Dublin, have been thermally upgraded with the addition of weber.therm External Wall Insulation (EWI) and render system.
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Quick solar PV installation
Crompton Solar has launched a “plug and play” range of its Solar PV system to make installation easier.
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Passive heat recovery
Remeha Commercial has launched the Quinta Eco Plus commercial heating system. It features a device that passively recovers heat from the flue.
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FeaturesQuadruple glazing: Fancy a fourth layer?
It’s winter and our thoughts turn to keeping warm by any means necessary. Is quadruple glazing the solution? Thomas Lane peeks out from behind his curtains to ask the experts
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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
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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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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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NewsFITs cut could cost government £230m
Energy consultancy’s analysis shows huge tax loss to the Treasury if jobs are lost because of cuts to government subsidies for solar power