All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles – Page 18
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Features
How transport infrastructure can unlock regeneration and levelling up
Regional and local transport planning in the UK has been boosted through the award of long-term funding to city regions and by aligning mobility to levelling up
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City tower would contradict corporation’s new carbon guidance, heritage group says
Planners set to decide on Woods Bagot’s 32-storey office scheme this morning
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Features
Dodging the seals: Antarctic project survives toughest season yet
The project team working on the £100m modernisation of the British Antarctic Survey’s flagship research station is racing against the clock to finish the cladding on a huge new facility before the winter sets in
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Green light for plans to transform historic warehouse into BBC Birmingham base
Local practice also asked to rework high-rise tower in city
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Costing Steelwork 23: Market update
A market update from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork
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Spring Budget broadly welcomed but criticised for lack of retrofit progress
Round-up of industry reaction to announcements including £20bn for carbon capture and storage and £600m for regneeration and levelling up schemes
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Comment
Hunt’s Budget shifted emphasis from recovery to re-set
Many of the chancellor’s announcements will only bear fruit in the longer term. Whether that is in time to save the Tories at the next general election remains to be seen, writes Simon Rawlinson of ArcadisÂ
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Hunt to spend £20bn on carbon capture schemes across UK
Chancellor also announces launch of first competition to design small modular reactors
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Comment
Missed chances and little to excite in Hunt’s first Budget
Today’s statement revealed a chancellor with few short-term solutions for whom survival to the next general election will be an achievement in itself
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Features
Phoenix rising: Plans for the ‘largest timber development in UK’ take shape
A new East Sussex-based developer is seeking to disrupt the housebuilding sector and create a template for higher density, walkable neighbourhoods, writes Ben Flatman
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Comment
Ministers’ unhelpful messaging around HS2 is damaging to UK plc
Recent decisions to delay investment in key parts of the railway undermine business confidence, which costs us all
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Infrastructure inflation set to be double that of building, Arcadis says
Consultant predicts up to 7% price hike for civils work this year
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Comment
Starmer must make sure he is not embarking on a mission impossible
Labour has set off on its pre-election marathon, but what should we make of Keir Starmer’s plans and how is policy likely to evolve?
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Government set to announce HS2 delays
Costs on first phase have reportedly risen £2bn since last update
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Features
The power of four: how UK’s biggest builders are working together on £1bn prisons programme
ISG, Kier, Laing O’Rourke and Wates have joined forces to build four new English prisons, pooling their resources and skills to form one big collaborative team. Here’s how it works
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Use unspent apprenticeship levy money to boost heritage retrofit skills, government told
Report by five big industry names including Peabody and Grosvenor calls for more investment in decarbonsing historic buildings
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The longest job: ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV the Colne Valley viaduct
A sensitive landscape and stiff local opposition presented the team building Britain’s longest railway bridge with a major challenge. Thomas Lane reports on how they got on
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Features
From the archives: First proposals for the Glasgow Subway, 1887
ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV flags the risk of trains colliding in the Glasgow Subway’s narrow tunnels
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Features
A home for all seasons: Inside the £16m research centre testing houses against the elements
The University of Salford says its Energy House 2.0 can simulate 95% of global environmental conditions. Daniel Gayne takes a look
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Luton airport lodges application for major expansion
Plans would nearly double the airport’s passenger capacity to 32 million