All Sustainability articles – Page 12
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Bam Energy to offer clients free solar panel installation
New energy business will install panels for free and then sell electricity to client to meet the cost
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Features
Construction materials: Past our peak?
It turns out that the construction industry is using substantially less ‘stuff’ than it was 15 years ago. Is this a blip or a victory for resource-efficiency?
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Zero Carbon Hub faces closure after cash shortage
Future of hub has been in doubt since zero-carbon targets for 2019 were scrapped by George Osborne
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Putnam: 70% of projects could be prefab
Putnam urges firms to produce more buildings on production lines to save time and money
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Putnam: 'Nowhere near enough' firms going green
Ecobuild latest: Contractors and clients say culture is key to driving sustainability agenda
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Government 'outsources too many client skills'
Ecobuild latest: Construction mandarin pledges to make public sector ‘client of choice’
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BREEAM qualification launched at Ecobuild
Ecobuild latest: BRE and HOK launche BREEAM Associate qualification
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Morgan: HS2 panel should have launched earlier
Ecobuild latest: Sadie Morgan says an earlier launch would have had a greater impact
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Clients 'don't know their own green policies'
Ecobuild latest: Clients are still getting to grips with the green agenda, delegates told
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Comment
Sustainability: The vision thing
Real sustainability means a built environment that can sustain its current, and future, population
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What makes good housing?
When creating homes you have to put people first, then work on the buildings and spaces. Placemaking simply doesn’t work unless you start with a vision for the community
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Observer critic calls for major housing push
Ecobuild latest: Architecture critic Rowan Moore says HS2-style intervention is required
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Igloo eyes floating homes on the Thames
Ecobuild latest: Regeneration developer plans custom-built homes in east London
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Pidgley: Set ‘affordable’ housing quota
Ecobuild latest: Berkeley boss also warns of ‘massive’ impact of potential Brexit
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Homes above car parks plan launched at Ecobuild
Idea is brainchild of Zedfactory’s Bill Dunster
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Willmott Dixon uni job wins Passivhaus accreditation
Leicester University’s Centre for Medicine biggest non-resi building to get mark
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Features
The green business case
Since its election last year the Conservative government has cut back a lot of sustainability legislation. But can sticking with the eco-building agenda benefit construction firms’ business model anyway?
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Ecobuild: Programme preview
The ongoing struggle to build homes, the business case for sustainability and how to drag construction efficiency into this century are just some of the themes of Ecobuild 2016
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Heathrow third runway pollution 'can be tackled'
New report states that technology can overcome noise and environmental pollution issues from proposed third runway