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Companies and Bodies
11 February 2011
It has been confirmed that the Design Council and CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) will merge from 1 April, following consultations between both bodies and the Government.
17 December 2010
17 Dec: Infrastructure work to develop the new BRE Scotland Innovation Park has begun, at a former steelworks site at Ravenscraig, Lanarkshire.
08 September 2010
Connaught, the property and environmental services giant, is expected to formally enter administration later this month, after amassing a debt totalling £220m.
23 August 2010
Kingspan Group, supplier of sustainable building solutions to the construction industry, has appointed Geoff Doherty as chief financial officer
09 August 2010
The disbanded Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) “made a positive contribution across Government and society” said a minister
06 August 2010
29 UK bodies have written to communities secretary Eric Pickles to ask that strategic planning is not lost in the localism drive
05 August 2010
Climate change will bring opportunities as well as risks for UK businesses so they need to be prepared
23 July 2010
The Government’s principal sustainability advisor, the Sustainable Development Commission, will be cut, along with the RCEP
23 July 2010
The decision to scrap the SDC has already raised tensions between the Welsh Assembly Government and the Westminster coalition
22 July 2010
The CCC has warned that unless a low-carbon technologies get Government backing, the UK faces a “valley of death”
06 July 2010
In a move to further the coalition Government’s drive to increase anaerobic digestion of waste, an industry round table event took place
05 July 2010
Baxi Group has attempted to find a silver lining in May’s announcement that the Government was to terminate the Low Carbon Buildings Programme
05 July 2010
Negotiations to reduce the confusion caused by having two UK-based Passivhaus organisations has generated agreement
05 July 2010
The Strategic Forum for Construction’s Carbon Sub-Group has asked its a group to develop a project-based assessment methodology for energy usage
05 July 2010
Six UK companies have won funds to conduct technical feasibility studies into more energy efficient lighting for homes