As the government commits to ‘build back better’ there is also an urgent need to ‘build and retrofit greener’ if the UK is going to meet its carbon emission targets. The current gas crisis has brought [read more…]
Ahead of the autumn budget on 27th October, Brendan Sharkey, Head of Construction and Real Estate at MHA, says that with the pandemic subsiding, the Chancellor should introduce more measures to get the construction industry [read more…]
Rather than knocking down existing buildings, experts are urging ministers to encourage developers to explore refurbishments, as making steel, concrete and bricks for new buildings generate vast carbon emissions. Business minister, Lord Callanan, told delegates [read more…]
A new office building currently being constructed in Newcastle city centre will be the smartest building in the North-East when it’s completed next year. One Strawberry Lane, which is being built in the St James’ [read more…]
It’s common knowledge that the building and construction industry is a major carbon emissions contributor. It faces increasing pressure to adapt its approach to respond to environmental goals. Here, Louise Stewart, CEO and Founder of [read more…]
Britain must solve its housing crisis without putting climate at risk warned the UK former Chief Scientific Advisor Sir David King at an Offsite Alliance event, part of this year’s UK Construction Week. With government [read more…]
One of Europe’s largest wooden framed buildings, the Gramophone Works in Kensal Green, West London, has been brought back to life following a £25m refurbishment programme as part of a major collaboration between main contractors [read more…]
After the recent revelations that UK’s home gas boilers emit twice as much CO2 as all the nation’s power stations, the construction sector is being urged to accelerate the switch to greener heating solutions such [read more…]
COP26 may be drawing ever closer, yet all seems to be in a state of flux and transition. The media is full of predictions of a potential return to the dark days of the 1970s, [read more…]
The Managing Director of SELECT, Scotland’s largest construction trade association, says “certainty and momentum” are the key ingredients if the industry is to successfully build on the outcome of the upcoming COP26 summit. Alan Wilson says it’s [read more…]
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