All Energy, infrastructure and refurbishment articles – Page 16
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NewsJames Corner Field Operations’ Camden Highline plans set for approval this week
Revised scheme to be presented to planning committee on Thursday
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NewsRelax planning rules to unleash solar ‘rooftop revolution’, urges net zero tsar
Chris Skidmore’s review says UK has ‘fallen behind’ on targets
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NewsLDA Design’s delayed £28m Aberdeen park refurb finally opens - without grass
Troubled Union Terrace Gardens facelift had been due to complete in 2021
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NewsBartlett working on government study to improve energy efficiency of ‘hard to treat’ buildings
School of architecture working with DG Cities on project commissioned by the business department
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NewsGreen light for Emrys Architects’ £120m refurb of landmark Kensington block
Art Deco Barkers of Kensington building to be given modern office upgrade
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NewsGovernment to relax rules on building onshore wind farms
Consultation on allowing local authorities to green light wind farms if they have local support to start before Christmas
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NewsCouncil rejects David Chipperfield’s Chinese embassy plans over safety concerns
Tower Hamlets scheme would have seen complex swap Portland Place for Royal Mint site
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NewsSelldorf’s Sainsbury Wing overhaul unanimously approved
Controversial plans to remodel grade I-listed landmark given go ahead yesterday evening
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FeaturesWhy everyone’s getting excited about the new energy efficiency taskforce
Jeremy Hunt has announced plans to set up a team to drive a programme of energy efficiency improvements to the UK’s buildings, with an ambitious new target. After a series of past blunders, could it actually work this time?
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NewsBusiness secretary unveils £1bn funding to insulate least energy-efficient homes
Critics unhappy that three-year government scheme will not come into effect until April 2023
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NewsDenise Scott Brown rips into Selldorf’s National Gallery plans
Proposals make Sainsbury Wing look like “a circus clown wearing a tutu” says architect
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OpinionRunning water (and money) down the drain
As gas and electricity prices soar and the country moves closer to Net Zero, Stuart Williams contemplates the embodied energy we are wasting down the drain
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NewsPurcell chalks up Leamington Spa town hall refurb job
Council plans to turn its headquarters into a creative hub
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FeaturesHydrogen-powered generator trialled on the Preston Western Distributor Road
The first of its kind for Lancashire County Council, the trial shows how moving from diesel to green hydrogen could save up to 11 tonnes of CO2e per month
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NewsSelldorf’s highly contested National Gallery plans set to be approved next week
Recommendation follows searing criticism from eight former RIBA presidents calling the revised scheme “even more ill-judged” than the former proposals
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NewsLondon office developers putting net zero goals on the backburner
More than half of respondents to Deloitte survey say their developments will not hit target before end of decade as demand for office space slows
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NewsApt given go ahead for plans to convert grade II-listed vaults into cycle storage
Early 19th century labyrinth of tunnels in Islington was part of the adjacent Whitbread Brewery building
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NewsRIBA says energy efficiency taskforce ‘must learn from past failures’
Simon Allford said retrofit team must build a competent and skilled supply chain following previous failed government schemes
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NewsInfrastructure scrapes through autumn statement as Hunt commits to £600bn investment
HS2 and Sizewell C will go ahead but Kwarteng’s priority project list binned
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NewsSheppard Robson returns to City block for refurb job
Architect unveils retrofit plans at office it designed in 2004