All Energy, infrastructure and refurbishment articles – Page 9
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News
Business 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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Denise 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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Opinion
Running 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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Purcell chalks up Leamington Spa town hall refurb job
Council plans to turn its headquarters into a creative hub
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Features
Hydrogen-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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Selldorf’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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London 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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Apt 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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RIBA 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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Infrastructure 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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Sheppard Robson returns to City block for refurb job
Architect unveils retrofit plans at office it designed in 2004
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Council approves AHMM’s plans to radically overhaul Islington landmark
External features of postmodern Angel Square development to be stripped away and replaced with glass facade
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C20 slams Selldorf’s ‘unjustifiable’ National Gallery makeover
Group voices “grave concerns” over controversial £30m proposals to remodel grade I-listed Sainsbury Wing
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Grimshaw and Trivandi reveal plans for £100m Aston Villa stadium makeover
Club wants to increase capacity to over 50,000 at Villa Park ground
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PRP named as lead architect on Broadwater Farm estate refurb
Tottenham blocks found to be structurally unsound in tests carried out in wake of the Grenfell Tower fire
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Conservative MP joins calls to save M&S’ Oxford Street store ahead of public inquiry
Duncan Baker among string of supporters including author Bill Bryson who are backing Save Britain’s Heritage’s campaign to block Pilbrow & Partners’ demolish and rebuild plans for landmark 1920s building
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MMC makes it harder to reuse materials, experts warn
National Federation of Demolition Contractors chief executive says modern materials are ‘nowhere near’ as reusable as those used in traditional construction
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We need a better way to measure carbon savings when reusing materials, UKGBC says
Lack of agreed metrics on carbon savings from retaining components in projects is an important gap in industry knowledge, climate group claims
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Campaigners fighting M&S plans edge towards funding target
Save Britain’s Heritage drive raises one third of its £20,000 goal in just days