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Entries for 'Staff writers'
27 August 2010
Speak to most estate agents these days and they are as perplexed as most of us when it comes to reading the tea leaves with regard to prospects for the residential market in their areas of operation
24 August 2010
BRE Trust has published a new report on energy efficiency in new and existing buildings which compares the relative impacts of constructing new, zero-carbon buildings with improving the energy efficiency of existing ones
22 August 2010
Guidance to help the health sector minimise waste and reduce costs on its building work has been published
06 July 2010
A combination of restoration of a 1930s workers’ hostel and new build has resulted in the Greenhouse Leeds complex
05 July 2010
Markets in five major countries for solar thermal declined last year thanks to the recession, says a study
05 July 2010
BRE Global has published a new version of its BREEAM assessment method for data centres
05 July 2010
This year’s round of the Energy Efficient Buildings European Initiative competition, which has €85m available, opens on 9 July
25 June 2010
The Homes & Communities Agency won't be abolished but will be a "much leaner" enabling and investment body
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
24 May 2010
The first development in China to be registered for assessment under BREEAM is a 500,000m² office, retail and hotel building in Wuhan
24 May 2010
The Energy Saving Scotland boiler scrappage scheme, under which householders can claim £400 off the cost of a new boiler, has begun work
24 May 2010
BSRIA, BRE and several companies are producing design guidance on the most energy efficient design for recirculating heating and chilled water pumping systems
24 May 2010
Local government is to lose £1.165bn in the current year, DCLG £780m, DEFRA £162m and DBIS £836m as the four areas are hit with almost half of the £6.2bn of cuts announced by chancellor George Osborne
12 May 2010
Two homes on a development in Longbridge will be built to Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6, the first “zero carbon” homes in Birmingham
11 May 2010
A failure to measure buildings’ whole-life carbon means that much of the £2.7bn annual increase in construction costs will not achieve the environmental goals intended, according to new research