All Sustainability articles – Page 69
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Government zero-carbon targets 'unrealistic'
Survey of 7,000 property professionals show three-quarters doubt feasibility of green plans
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Government to pull funding from zero-carbon housing body
Grant Shapps, the housing minister, has signalled his intention to halt government funding for an independent body that was set up to help deliver zero-carbon housing
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CPA launches guide for greening existing housing
Guide to low carbon refurbishment includes case studies and advice on improving floors, walls and roofs
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Savills offers PV advice on feed-in tariffs
Property firm teams up with Solarcentury to encourage developers to make most of feed-in tariffs
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Mulalley bags £2.1m Hoxton housing job
Seven-storey scheme will feature green roof, a biomass boiler and sustainable drainage
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BLP launches sustainability tool
Software package is intended to simplify decision making at design stage
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Embodied energy: The next big carbon challenge
Reducing the amount of embodied energy in building materials won’t be easy – but it’s essential
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Mainstream green: Brighton belle
One Brighton is the brainchild of the team behind super-green development BedZed. But although sustainability is at the heart of the scheme, it’s going to do it its own sweet way
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ODA scraps plans for Olympic turbine
Major part of 2012’s sustainability plan is cancelled because new safety legislation has deterred potential contractors
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Passivhaus: the power of shared ideas
A road trip to Dresden reinforces the Passivhaus ethos – and provides an ego boost
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May Gurney wins £60m of waste and recycling work
Infrastructure support services company will work for West Oxfordshire and North Yorkshire councils over seven years
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Coalition maintains zero-carbon commitment
Conservative-Lib Dem government confirms that from 2016 all new homes will be zero-carbon
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Berkeley pledges to achieve green standard on all schemes
First move by new boss is to ensure housebuilder meets silver ɫTV for Life criteria across portfolio
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Pioneering biodiversity scheme launched
Project, paid for by developers, aims to create wildlife habitats, provide flood mitigation and store carbon
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Cow dung to power data centres
Hewlett-Packard is developing methane-powered data centres to be sited at dairy farms
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Positive thinking: Masdar HQ
The seven-storey Masdar Headquarters, under construction outside Abu Dhabi, will be the world’s first large building that generates more energy than it consumes
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Coalition scraps Hips
Housing minister announces plan to ’cut pointless red tape’ by dropping information pack requirement
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National Grid to seek £3.2bn for green upgrade
Rights issue-funded adaptation of existing network is planned to create about 5,000 new jobs
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Heatherwick's new bus design revealed
Transport for London hopes 'new routemaster' will be in service by 2012
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The big brother houses: monitoring residents' energy use
Housebuilders can specify all the green technology they want, but what happens when human beings get left in charge of the thermostat? Buro Happold installed sensors to find out, then told Thomas Lane what they discovered