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Prison construction is set for a £2.5 billion boost as the Ministry of Justice puts major framework to expand the prison system in place. A raft of contractors have been appointed to the MoJ Constructor Services Framework, which is being used to support the government’s pledge to spend £4 billion creating 20,000 new prison places […]
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has responded with disappointment towards the UK Government’s revised energy strategy, Powering Up Britain. The government’s revised strategy arrives in the wake of a 2022 High Court ruling that the previous plan did not provide enough detail on plans to tackle climate change. The strategy now outlines key […]
Transitioning to a circular economy is key to helping reduce our global resource use and will help to reach net zero and reduce our impacts on biodiversity and nature. UKGBC’s system enablers for a circular economy report listed Metrics, benchmarks, and indicators and one of the 8 enablers which will help the build environment transition […]
Construction group Galliford Try’s building business has been appointed to a £75m contract to deliver a new build-to-rent (BTR) residential building at Brent Cross Town, north London. The company was appointed by Related Argent and Invesco Real Estate, the global real estate investment manager, acting on behalf of a US separate account client. Galliford said […]
Holmwood House was opened in 1922 as a boy’s school by Mr and Mrs E F Duggan with the aim ‘to develop the individuality and abilities of each child, to make them self-reliant and adaptable’. The world has changed a great deal in the school’s first century, but it still upholds those underlying values. Except […]
Despite having very little public support, HS2 continues to tear its way through our countryside and villages, destroying countless habitats and displacing people from their homes. Those in favour estimate it to create 22,000 jobs over the next few years, while opponents claim it will destroy almost that many jobs. Is the rationale for what […]
Construction wood RPS to end as ‘less than 1%’ is hazardous The Wood Recyclers Association (WRA) has welcomed the Environment Agency’s decision to withdraw the regulatory position statement (RPS) relating to hazardous waste wood from the construction industry later this year. The association said the Agency confirmed to its members at their spring meeting earlier […]
The UK steel industry could “wither and decline” unless procurement rules are revised obliging all UK infrastructure projects to use British-made steel, according to Unite the Union. In a letter to prime minister Rishi Sunak, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “It is shocking that a majority of our public infrastructure projects currently use imported steel. We […]
The first Ground Source Heat Pump has been connected to the world’s first in-road retrofit of ground array infrastructure in Stithians Cornwall. The first resident in the Cornish village of Stithians has today had their ground source heat pump (GSHP) connected to an ambient heat network that will draw energy from under the street. […]
Landmark Coire Glas in the Scottish Highlands could power 3 million homes and more than double GB electricity storage SSE is providing a £100 million investment boost into what can be Britain’s biggest pumped hydro storage scheme in 40 years. The announcement has been made today as part of a visit by Scotland’s Cabinet Secretary […]
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