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Rachel Reeves is being urged to introduce “radical and credible” reforms for the UK housing market in her Budget this autumn, or risk continued stagnation. In an open letter to the chancellor, property financier Daniel Austin, CEO and co-founder at ASK Partners, outlines a series of recommendations to boost the market and tackle the ongoing […]
IMAGE: Fox Eco Architects Cob can be “a mainstream building material once again” say Cella It’s time for the construction industry to bring back cob, but innovation is needed to solidify the age-old material’s place back within our toolkits, design collective Cella tell Dezeen in this Building with Cob interview. “Cob is a […]
A recent English High Court ruling should serve as a warning to the construction industry that even informal WhatsApp exchanges can form legally-binding contracts, according to one lawyer. Michael Kitson, a director at Lindsays, said contractors and developers negotiating contracts cannot afford to presume that the details of text messages and those sent […]
HoW College and Benniman celebrate regional construction sector with Skills West Midlands + Warwickshire Heart of Worcestershire College (HoW College) attended the Skills West Midlands + Warwickshire (SWM+W) celebration of the construction sector in the region at the special awards event in support of Benniman Ltd, one of their strategic partners. In her opening […]
Rinnai UK’s Operations Director Chris Goggin explains what synthetic gasses are being developed and produced as a possible replacement to natural gas. Further information of production methods will be considered when evaluating the practical and technical feasibility of introducing synthetic gasses into UK and international energy infrastructure. Since the 1970s when North Sea gas […]
By Andy Leah, General Manager of Duraproducts Plastic pollution has become one of the most urgent environmental challenges of our time. In 2025, almost 500 million tonnes of primary plastics will be produced globally and over 400 million tonnes of plastics waste generated – most of it destined for landfill, incineration or the natural environment[1]. […]
A test unit small modular reactor (SMR) vessel, fabricated in partnership with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE), has been successfully installed by the US-based nuclear energy company, Kairos Power, at its USA campus in Tennessee. The 14-foot-high reactor vessel is the central component in Kairos […]
Bright move from Braintree Council with landmark solar installation from RenEnergy RenEnergy has supported Braintree Council with a large-scale 407KW solar panel installation in Essex as part of the authority’s drive to increase efficiency and reduce emissions from its buildings. Expected to produce over 399MWh of energy annually, the renewable energy specialist installed 983 […]
Credit: University of Stuttgart / 2nd Physics Institute Researchers are creating new moiré materials at the nanometer scale using advanced DNA nanotechnology: DNA moiré superlattices form when two periodic DNA lattices are overlaid with a slight rotational twist or positional offset. This creates a new, larger interference pattern with completely different physical properties. A new […]
EDF Energy London-based EDF Energy has lifted a 245-ton dome onto a reactor building using the world’s largest construction crane. The new nuclear plant in Somerset, Hinkley Point C, will feature twin nuclear reactors. It is the first nuclear plant under construction in Britain in 30 years. Once operational, these will provide zero-carbon electricity for […]
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