Nadhim Zahawi MP, the Minister for Business and Industry, has acknowledged the vital role the building materials industry will play in the development and delivery of new technologies that will significantly reduce carbon emissions, to [read more…]
Shareplant – the UK-first company bringing the sharing economy to construction plant and tool hire – has challenged construction site managers to do away with paper-based forms, launching a free 14-day trial of its newly-expanded [read more…]
Leading LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) supplier Flogas Britain has announced that it will be offering environmentally-conscious construction customers the opportunity to offset their carbon emissions – by supporting a selection of verified sustainability projects that deliver quantifiable [read more…]
While welcoming the government’s new ‘net zero’ carbon target, Aggregate Industries has been quick to assert that a much greater commitment to innovation, in every respect of the construction process, is vital if the industry [read more…]
The construction industry can play its part in the battle to address climate change, by looking to the roof. Currently, around 10% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions are directly associated with construction*. Increased use [read more…]
A group of parents at a London primary school have taken the issue of air pollution into their own hands, after successfully crowdfunding over £90,000, which included funding from the Mayor of London, to install [read more…]
Hot on the heels of signing the UK Plastics Pact, Viridor has launched what is believed to be the industry’s first hard hat recycling schemes which aims to divert thousands of complex plastic away from [read more…]
A Government report which offers insight into the value of waste has been welcomed by Forticrete, part of Ibstock plc, a leading manufacturer of concrete construction products. Authored by Sir Mark Walport and Professor Ian Boyd, the Chief Scientific Adviser at [read more…]
The UK’s pioneer of domestic district ground source heat pump systems, Kensa Contracting, has secured the contract to deliver England’s largest shared ground loop heat pump system with ENGIE. 400 flats over eight tower blocks [read more…]
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