All Sustainability articles – Page 72
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Ashley Primary School: Any colour as long as it’s green
Ashley Primary School is run with such zeal for the environment that when an expansion became necessary, it grabbed the chance to increase its sustainability credentials
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2010 Budget: Infrastructure bank to boost off-shore wind
Chancellor sets out plans for £2bn Green Investment Bank fund which will focus initially on off-shore wind projects
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Passivhaus: What's in a name?
A lot actually, if you are claiming that a building meets a certain standard without the certification to verify it
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Tories publish energy green paper
David Cameron outlines 12-point plan, including streamlining planning for infrastructure projects and supporting nuclear power
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Morrell: Industry needs more workload to become low carbon
The construction industry requires a rise in its workload if it is to achieve its carbon reduction commitments for 2020 and beyond
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Mandelson and Morrell reveal green building strategy
Low carbon construction team outlines 40-year programme of works and reform of the industry
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Sea to power up to 15 million homes
Government action plan aims to use marine energy to reduce carbon emissions
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Part L changes announced
Industry kept waiting on details as timetable is set for new ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Regs
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UK explores German refurb funding model
The government has been in talks with German infrastructure bank KfW as it looks for ways to fund the annual cost of greening the UK’s housing stock. That has been estimated at £2bn a year by the government and up to £15bn a year by the UK Green ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Council
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61% of commercial properties on market lack EPCs
February figures on premises for sale or rent for show a 3% improvement on previous month
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Healey reveals green revamp for planning rules
Housing minister to invest £10m in improving skills, back second wave of eco-towns and overhaul three planning policies
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Passivhaus diaries, part 20: Coming to an end
As the Denby Dale house completes Bill Butcher reflects on what he’s learned in his penultimate diary entry
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Images: England's first Passivhaus office
Office development in Kent claims to be 80% more energy efficient than required by current ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Regulations
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Ecobuild: UKGBC declares war on wasteful non-doms
Manifesto calls on government to force improvement in energy efficiency of non-domestic buildings
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Knotweed under attack as biologists release killer beetles
Government gives go-ahead for Japanese Knotweed's natural predator to be released into the UK
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First images: Brookfield's Elephant & Castle tower takes shape
ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø goes on site at London's tallest residential tower, nicknamed 'the razor', and finds out about the challenges created by its three integrated wind turbines
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The eco-refurb that could save homeowner £28,000 over 25 years
Keepmoat’s Mark Sapola on the green makeover of a three-bed home in Bristol
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Lack of engineers could scupper renewables revolution
Sunday Times says 60,000 heating engineers are interested in fitting renewable energy devices but are put off by the three-year certification process
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Ecobuild video: David Strong on greening existing housing stock
Chief executive of Inbuilt talks to ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø about the government's Pay as You Save initiative