All Energy, Infrastructure and Refurbishment articles – Page 31
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Step forward for £460m Kent hospital expansion plans
Developer offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new facility for free
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Winners for £700m airports framework named
Kier the sole firm to land place on all 12 lots
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Kier completes £250m prison using MMC
Five Wells prison in Northamptonshire built almost entirely from standardised components
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Brexit and pandemic blamed as Bisset Adams folds
Liquidator praises director for doing ‘everything she could’
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Construction output highest for eight months – but optimism fades
Firms fear impact of rising costs and supply shortages
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Heritage contractor bags restoration job on listed Crystal Palace subway
Glass roof to be built over the entrance to the crumbling Victorian landmark
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Perkins & Will inks £9.5m deal to design two Leeds hospitals
Practice replaced BDP on £600m scheme last year
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Net zero communities of the future depend on decarbonisation now
Benchmarking, roadmapping and delivering are the keys to portfolio decarbonisation, writes Atkins’ Stuart McLaren
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Parliament restoration could take more than 70 years and cost £50bn
Keeping MPs in Palace of Westminster during works would see costs and delivery time skyrocket, report finds
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Hold nerve on long term projects, infrastructure chief tells government
National Infrastructure Commission chair John Armitt says ripping up plans amid crisis over rising bills will increase costs in future
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Comment
Must we leave heat networks behind?
Systems using centralised plant were meant to be the future, until their carbon intensity put paid to that. But are heat pumps always better?
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The critical journey to more sustainable infrastructure
Our future depends on a more adaptive, resilient, high-tech and environmentally-conscious built environment
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​Why we need a long term view in a short term world
Government and the construction industry need to put more focus on whole life carbon, says Elaine Toogood
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Features
Cost model: Low carbon frames
Structural frames are one of the biggest contributors to embodied carbon, but issues with data quality have made tackling this difficult – until now
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High energy costs – it’s not just households who are feeling the pinch
The impact of on businesses is not yet part of the public debate – but it should be
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Rising energy costs could derail levelling up, materials firms warn
Jobs could be lost at energy intensive manufacturers unless ministers act
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Murphy wins cabling job for giant offshore wind project
Firm to design and build two 7km cable ducts for Dogger Bank wind farms
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Urban mining and how to reuse carbon intensive materials
Here’s how the embodied carbon savings of reusing - rather than recycling - materials such as steel could stack up
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RIBA urges mass-retrofit programme for interwar housing
Improving 3.3m homes would cost £37.5bn, says institute
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Levelling up is a shared responsibility
There is much in the government white paper for construction to get behind and lots of opportunities to contribute