All Energy, infrastructure and refurbishment articles
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Opinion
Is it time to stop building in the wildfire affected areas of California?
The recent fires in the hills around Los Angeles are the most costly in US history. Does it really make sense to live in these heavily wooded places?
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Starmer pledges to speed up infrastructure schemes by scrapping key legal challenges
Nuclear power plants, trainlines and wind farms would be built quicker under new rules, government says
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Reeves’ number two to be lead minister for new infrastructure body
Project delivery functions to be transferred from Cabinet Office to the Treasury
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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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New hospitals programme and HS2 are ‘unachievable’, says IPA
Both schemes given red ratings by infrastructure body
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Government’s top infrastructure advisor ‘never been convinced’ by HS2 governance structure
John Armitt will chair NIC until July as it moves towards merger with IPA
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London Fire Brigade to move back into Lambeth headquarters after scrapping £500m redevelopment plans
Brigade has pulled the plug on a development agreement with Landsec U&I and hired architect 5plus to draw up new plans for listed site
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Terraced streets tackle climate change with ambient loop system
An award-winning initiative aims to decarbonise up to eight million terraced homes in the UK through a community-led energy model that uses heat pump networks and microgrids
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Design team sought for restoration of farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne
Bids due in for Ellisland Museum and Farm job by 24 January
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HS2 chair to step down as costs on job continue to rise
Government says latest £66bn figure could come down after intervention
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Network Rail to turn Euston station into life sciences district
Boss of organisation’s property arm says plans would enable infrastructure improvements at site
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Gensler’s plans to straighten Fosters’ former City Hall building get green light
Refurbishment of building dubbed the “glass testicle” by Ken Livingstone to add more office and retail space
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DSDHA’s plans for West End office redevelopment resurface after six years
Edge and Mitsubishi Estate take over Shaftesbury Avenue scheme originally developed for Almacantar
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Hawkins Brown and Acme working on major redevelopment of Victoria station
Designs for Network Rail’s latest station overhaul to be unveiled next year
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Save Britain’s Heritage calls for urgent planning policy reforms after ‘short-sighted’ M&S decision
Group’s director said developers need clear guidelines on demolish and rebuild projects
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Heidi Alexander appointed new transport secretary
MP oversaw implementation of London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone during stint at City Hall as Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for transport
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Architect sought for transformation of Lancashire building into heritage museum
Bids for scheme at locally listed Market Chambers in Accrington must be submmitted by 7 January
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Campaigners rip into Acme’s new Liverpool Street station plans
Rethink does not “justify concerns” over scrapped Herzog & de Meuron scheme, says Victorian Society-led campaign group
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HS2 confirms steel contractor’s welding problems have hit nine of its bridges
Defect in steel supplied by Severfield related to manufacturing at one factory, railway says
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Hugh Broughton Architects appointed on Westminster public toilets job
Eight toilets to be refurbished across the borough in bid to replicate “Victorian civic pride” in public sanitation