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Moves to be environmentally sustainable have gained the University of Bedfordshire a First in the People & Planet Green League 2013. Several initiatives have helped propel the institution to number 20 – a leap of 16 places from last year’s 36 – out of 143 universities in the league, published in The Guardian on Tuesday 11 June. They include: Harvesting rain water Installing solar panels on new buildings Using electric cars for campus to campus…

For one week Copenhagen hosted the global biomass community at the 21st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition. More than 1800 attendees from 66 countries discussed the status and the future of biomass for energy, materials and further bioeconomy applications in 360 keynote, plenary, oral and 400 visual presentations. These figures, compared to last year, show an increase of 15% in total attendance and a 20% increase in exhibition space making the EU BC&E 2013 once…

Parsons Brinckerhoff, the global engineering consultancy, has strengthened its position in the Scottish building and environmental consultancy markets with the award of three new frameworks that will see it provide a range of specialist multi-disciplinary services across the country and, in particular, in Fife and Argyll & Bute. In Fife, Parsons Brinckerhoff has been selected under a multi-disciplinary framework for Fife Council to promote the development of brownfield sites. A multi-disciplinary team led by the…