All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles – Page 43
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Problems at Bond Street putting Crossrail opening at risk, Jacobs warns
Paddington contractor Costain Skanska also meeting railway bosses three times a week over productivity concerns
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‘Step change’ in productivity needed to build government’s infrastructure ambitions, industry told
IPA chief says 40% improvement in productivity needed as ‘prerequisite’ to build £600bn pipeline
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Government’s chief infrastructure advisor casts doubt on next phase of HS2
Nick Smallwood says for link to go ahead rail passenger numbers need to recover to pre-covid levels
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Hydrogen is not a silver bullet solution
Hydrogen is seen as the Swiss Army knife of net zero solutions – but is it really?
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Costing Steelwork 17: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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HS2 launches first giant tunnelling machine to dig under Chiltern Hills
2000-tonne machine named after Florence Nightingale will operate as a self-contained underground factory
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Countdown to COP26: A good start – but still a long way to go
As momentum builds towards COP26, developers are making impressive-sounding commitments with their net zero pathways and strategies
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Galliford Try starts on £10m makeover of Perry Barr station ahead of Commonwealth Games
Scheme likened by one councillor to a ‘high quality garden shed’
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Light at the end of the tunnel as Crossrail finally enters key testing phase
Delayed railway due to open in first half of next year
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The urgency of now: how can construction meet its green targets?
A report by the Climate Change Committee sets out a host of ambitious carbon reduction targets and points to where resources need to be focused. Thomas Lane looks at three of the areas of most interest to construction and assesses what it will take to meet the targets
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Focus on design is critical as the optimism grows
Confidence is returning to the industry. We must use the renewed energy to ensure that we build in a responsible and resilient way, says Sadie MorganÂ
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Coup for Mace as firm wins £570m Birmingham HS2 station
Curzon Street deal means contractor is building both start and finish stations on first section of route
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Carbon targets have been set – now the hard work really starts
Turning well-meaning words about climate change into measurable action requires fundamental change across the industry, writes Mark FarmerÂ
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Contractors readied as West End refurb job gets green light
Orms-designed scheme will provide retail and office space
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Net Zero Live - Time for action
Not before time, construction is getting its act together on reducing carbon emissions, as Jordan Marshall found out at ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s two-day Net Zero Live conferenceÂ
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MoD estates arm poaches HS2 procurement boss
David Poole takes on new role as commercial director for Defence Infrastructure Organisation
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HS2's Kay Hughes: 'We see ourselves as catalysts for creative thinking'
The design director of Britain’s biggest - and arguably most controversial - infrastructure project talks about her ambition to leave a legacy of quality structures and landscapes along the route
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Green Homes Grant set for autumn reboot, Net Zero Live reveals
Business secretary indicated in talks that a replacement for the scrapped domestic energy efficiency scheme is expected later this year
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The modular buildings behind the UK’s renewable revolution
Renewable energy generation in the UK is on the rise. According to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, renewables - including wind, solar, hydro among others - accounted for 47% of electricity generation in the first quarter of 2020, up from 35.9% for the same period in 2019. ...
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Plans for Manchester tower abandoned as HS2 buys site from Ballymore
Scheme to build 60-storey block has been mothballed for more than a decade