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…]
Market leading roofing manufacturer, Sika, has launched a complete Green Roof package, supplying both the high performance roof waterproofing system and the green roof system, all backed by its trusted technical and application support. Specifiers [read more…]
Businesses in the waste and construction industries must ensure they deal with waste plastic properly to stop illegal exports, the Environment Agency (EA) has warned. The warning comes as the Agency is increasingly aware of [read more…]
ProQuant Estimating – the UK’s leading residential estimating service – has developed and launched the UK’s first ever climate positive carbon offsetting residential estimation tool. This unique tool will now be used, at no additional [read more…]
The first company to combine offsite construction with a Passivhaus Institute certified complete build system, Beattie Passive, leading provider of Passivhaus homes in the UK, is preparing to revolutionise housebuilding with its new range of [read more…]
It is safe to say there is a significant amount of planning that goes into a construction project long before the first breaking of ground takes place. Here, Drake Meikle, Technical Sales Engineer at Siltbuster [read more…]
Stephen Hemmings, head of environment and sustainability at drywall construction materials manufacturer, Siniat, outlines why the construction sector needs to look beyond simply new homes’ performance and instead, towards the circular economy in order to [read more…]
Electric power, it’s a hot topic and rightly so. There’s no reason why transportation shouldn’t be predominantly all electric in the next ten years, but you need the right products to make that a reality [read more…]
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