All Sustainability articles – Page 50
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Renewable 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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BDP designing major biomass power plant near Sheffield
Multi-disciplinary firm working with Bam Nuttall on £120m scheme for E.ON
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Skanska 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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Thermal 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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Features
Quadruple 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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Leading 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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RIBA: 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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MPs 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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FITs 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
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Incentives question mark over Green Deal
Businesses will have to wait until Chancellor’s autumn statement to discover how the £14bn green retrofit scheme will be incentivised
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Comment
Solar industry lobbies MPs overs FITs cuts
Campaigners prepare to lobby MPs over the 50% cut in solar feed-in tariffs. Read live coverage here
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Comment
Life for BioRegional after Quintain
Co-founder of BioRegional disappointed by end of Quintain joint venture but says valuable lessons can be learnt
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Lib Dem councillors set to rebel against FIT cuts
The party fears its good environmental record could be trashed by the government plans
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Skanska tops list of green construction companies
Engineers WS Atkins, BAM and Carillion all highly rated in first government poll of firms’ carbon measurment
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Comment
How can we make the most of the public estate?
New structures for property management and ways of working can lead to leaner and greener public assets