All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles – Page 2
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Heat pumps in half of homes by 2040 but no role for hydrogen, CCC tells government
Climate Change Committee’s latest report sets out progress needed to stay on track with net zero targets
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Bakerloo Line extension back in business as Khan sets out 10-year London Growth Plan
Infrastructure upgrades could unlock 60,000 homes over the next decade under plans to return capital to 1990s growth rates
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‘Step change’ in capital investment and skills needed for energy transition, NIC warns
Annual expenditure on expanding the distribution network needs to “at least double” to meet government targets, report says
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Planning inspector uses new grey belt rules to overturn refusal of battery storage scheme
Faciltiy was rejected by Trafford council last year due to fears over its impact on surrounding countryside
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Comment
The UK’s skills approach remains fractured – we need joined-up thinking
Businesses including my own are working hard to build pipelines of talent to match the expected demand, but Skills England must bring the industry response together, says T&T’s Patricia Moore
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Green light for Landsec office scheme in Southwark
Orms-designed block to add to developer’s emerging commercial complex near Tate Modern
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Government intervenes again as Starmer promises to rip up planning rules to speed up nuclear building jobs
Prime minister bemoans pace of progress getting new plants out of the ground compared to overseas countries
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‘Productive discussions’ with government on plans to build Europe’s largest theme park in Bedfordshire
US company had been expected to make final decision on 283ha project by the end of last year
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Comment
The chancellor has put infrastructure at the very centre of her growth plan – so where is the sense of excitement?
Backing for big and bold projects should help boost sector confidence, but with such long time horizons it all feels a bit distant
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In partnership
The ‘renovation revolution’ required to tackle building emissions
Sam Kimmins, director of energy, Climate Group tells Jordan Marshall what is needed in order to double renovation rates in the UK and Europe
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Chancellor confirms backing for third runway at Heathrow
Rachel Reeves also backs Lower Thames Crossing, Old Trafford regeneration and East West Rail in speech designed to outline growth plans
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HS1 looking for team to design expansion of St Pancras’ international platforms
Eurostar wants to boost passenger numbers to 30 million by the end of decade
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Features
‘This is a growth story’… How Network Rail plans to become one of the UK’s biggest housebuilders
The transport operator’s group property director talks about the ‘new mindset’ at Network Rail – and why the country’s biggest owner of brownfield land is taking an assertive role in redevelopment projects on its sites
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Government targets new homes around commuter hubs
Reeves and Rayner pledge default approval for schemes with ‘high housing potential’ such as sites near train stations
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Trusts pause schemes worth £3.5bn after Streeting’s New Hospital Programme delay
Sites unveiled for two hospital rebuilds in northern England only last month
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Green light for Howells’ restoration of Birmingham’s grade II*-listed botanical gardens
Scheme to restore site’s Victorian glass houses back to their original character
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Features
Material passports: the key to carbon reduction, greater component reuse and more sustainable construction
Logging the details of the products and materials used on projects so they can have a second life after demolition has been discussed but never practised on a large London construction project – until now, Thomas Lane reports
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Castleforge buys data centre site with plans for £100m expansion
Developer behind revamp of former Deutsche Bank headquarters makes entry into growing data market
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High Court orders company behind £3.5bn theme park project to close
End of the road for the London Resort scheme after almost 14 years of development