All Sustainability articles – Page 14
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Features
Sustainability: 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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News
Stephen 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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News
Solar firm to build 8,000 homes with Chinese firm
WElink Energy and China National ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Materials announce £1.1bn deal to build 8,000 affordable zero carbon homes in sites across UK
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UKGBC plans to close 'performance gap'
UKGBC embarks on project to ensure buildings live up to standards promised by developers
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News
Consultant JV lands major Thames Tideway contract
Heavyweight JV will provide design and engineering services for Bam, Balfour and Morgan Sindall
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News
Feed-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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Comment
Who 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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News
Up 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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News
Three key priorities for Green Deal review
Review leader Peter Bonfield speaks exclusively to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about recommendations to be published next April
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News
Government backtracks on FITs cuts
Green subsidy to be cut by 64%, rather than the 87% reduction originally proposed
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UK 'must do more' after Paris climate agreement
CBI calls on UK to do more to promote cleaner energy
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News
Renewables 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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Features
Paris 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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Comment
Floods 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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Comment
Floods 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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Comment
Floods 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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Features
Environment 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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News
UK firms pledge carbon reduction at Paris summit
At ºÚ¶´ÉçÇøs Day at global climate summit contractors and developers pledge to limit emissions
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News
Crest 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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Comment
Protect infrastructure investment
We need to develop proactive strategies to protect ourselves from flooding