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Cardiff University Researchers to Develop Tool to Project Wales’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions up to 2050

Posted on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 by admin

Academics partner with BRE to forecast Wales’s future carbon emissions Scientists from Cardiff University are developing a tool to forecast Wales’s greenhouse gas emissions over the next 30 years. Together with world-leading multi-disciplinary building science centre, BRE, the academics are developing the tool on behalf of Welsh Government, who will use it to inform the setting of appropriate targets and carbon budgets for the entire country and quantify policies and proposals to be contained in…

UK’s Fastest-Growing Modular Building Company* Awarded Place on NHS Construction Framework

Posted on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 by admin

Actavo | Building Solutions, the UK’s fastest-growing modular building company*, has been awarded a number of lots on the new four-year, £750m NHS modular building framework. With NHS bed availability at an all-time low, increasing facilities in a limited timeframe is essential. The new framework, which has been set up by the NHS, is solely for the supply of modular buildings and promotes faster, cheaper and greener building solutions. The new framework has been split…

Bumper Year for Green Roof Construction with Popularity Booming Across Southern England

Posted on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017 by admin

As sustainable and energy efficient construction continues to rise, the number of planning applications for green roofs across Great Britain in 2016 surged by 34 per cent compared to the figures registered in 2015. According to recent data published today by Barbour Product Search, it was the southern regions of England that dominated green roof applications in 2016, accounting for 65 per cent of the total. Regionally, London accounted for the highest number of applications…

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