24 June 2010
Part L 2010 will come into force on 1 October 2010. It will require a reduction of 25% of carbon emissions compared to Part L 2006
24 June 2010
Designing a new station for the British Antarctic Survey has thrown up methods and techniques now being applied in UK buildings
24 June 2010
At the London Festival of Architecture, a session called sustainable architecture – design for the earth and beyond, had a sci-fi unreal feel to it
24 June 2010
“Existing infrastructures rely on carbon-heavy energy sources such as coal and gas and have leaky, inefficient buildings, which haven’t benefited from the latest technologies and materials”
23 June 2010
An assessment of the emergency Budget proposals and their likely impacts on property in particular
23 June 2010
Inevitably there have been wide variations in the reaction to the emergency budget. From a property market perspective it is a mixed picture
23 June 2010
The Government has put forward detailed proposals on green measures in George Osborne's Emergency Budget
22 June 2010
Nearly 100 MPs have backed an Early Day Motion (EDM 178) by Labour backbencher Martin Caton on implementation of the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 proposals
22 June 2010
An Early Day Motion drawing attention to the importance of renewable heat has received support from 75 MPs so far
22 June 2010
Overall UK energy consumption from renewables was 2.3% in 2008 – the latest year for which data is available, Conservative energy minister Charles Hendry told Labour MP Jonathan Reynolds
22 June 2010
£591,000 has been committed in the current financial year for research into the environmental implications of nanomaterials, but as yet departmental budgets for future years have not yet been decided
22 June 2010
Consumer confidence and spending are likely to be undermined in the medium-term. The question is: by how much? Are we in for a double-dip or just a lengthy period of mild contraction?
21 June 2010
Funding for the Warm Front scheme is just over £1.1bn for the current three-year spending period to March 2011
21 June 2010
DECC energy minister Charles Hendry told an expert audience that “low carbon technologies have an important role to play"
18 June 2010
DEFRA is undertaking a research project on the contribution that corporate reporting makes to the UK meeting its climate change objectives