All Sustainability articles – Page 16
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Council offices win PM's building award
Five Pancras Square, which houses Camden Council’s offices, wins Prime Minister’s Better Public ɫTV Award
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Solar provider collapses blaming government cuts
Solar energy firm Southern Solar goes under due to cuts to feed-in tariff, says administrator
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Mark Group insulation business saved by management buyout
New company formed by previous management at collapsed Mark Group buys insulation business
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BES: Birmingham or bust
Birmingham council has scrapped its energy efficiency drive. We look at how the £1bn Birmingham Energy Savers scheme and the Green Deal’s fates were inextricably bound, and what the city’s options are now
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Elephant and Castle 'energy hub' gets go-ahead
Lendlease secures planning permission for net zero carbon combined heat and power plant
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Mark Group goes under with 940 job losses
Two Green Deal providers fall into administration just hours apart
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Sustainability: Energy performance contracts
Energy Performance Contracts are increasing in popularity as a way of delivering large-scale energy savings in existing buildings
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Green buildings: A new approach
Redefining the business case for creating sustainable buildings
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Waste not, want not water management
Better, more effective water management and harvesting techniques need to be designed into every element of a building
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Are net zero water buildings far off?
Adopting a more holistic approach to water management in buildings could get us on the path to net zero water buildings
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Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon delayed by a year
Client body for project says it won’t reach financial close until at least next summer due to strike price negotiations, pushing back start of work
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Willmott Dixon plans to halve carbon emissions by 2020
Contractor says there is a “clear link” between sustainability and financial success
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Drax pulls out of £1bn carbon capture scheme
Energy firm blames move on government decision to remove renewables from exemption to Climate Change Levy
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Solar farm applications soar to beat subsidy cut deadline
Spike in projects going in for planning as industry warns 20,000 jobs put at risk by cuts
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Birmingham axes Carillion's £1bn Green Deal programme
Birmingham Energy Savers dumped just four years into an eight-year contract
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Bonfield floats proposals for Green Deal alternative
Options include mass retrofitting of housing association homes and improved mortgage rates for green properties
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Al Gore slams UK government green policy U-turns
Former US vice president attacks government over ‘puzzling’ decisions at climate event in central London
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CBI slams green subsidy cuts
CBI says firms in emerging green sector need reassurance that government is serious about tackling climate change
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Four out of five Londoners’ homes overheated this summer
Survey of 1,005 capital-dwellers reveals that 83% suffered from overheating in their home at least once this year