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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 17: Market update
Costing Steelwork is a series from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork. This quarter provides a market update and updates the five cost models previously featured in Costing Steelwork
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NewsHS2 launches first giant tunnelling machine to dig under Chiltern Hills
2000-tonne machine named after Florence Nightingale will operate as a self-contained underground factory
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CommentCountdown to COP26: A good start 鈥撀燽ut still a long way to go
As momentum builds towards COP26, developers are making impressive-sounding commitments with their net zero pathways and strategies
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NewsGalliford Try starts on 拢10m makeover of Perry Barr station ahead of Commonwealth Games
Scheme likened by one councillor to a 鈥榟igh quality garden shed鈥�
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NewsLight at the end of the tunnel as Crossrail finally enters key testing phase
Delayed railway due to open in first half of next year
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FeaturesThe urgency of now: how can construction meet its green targets?
A report by the Climate Change Committee sets out a host of ambitious carbon reduction targets and points to where resources need to be focused. Thomas Lane looks at three of the areas of most interest to construction and assesses what it聽will take to meet the targets
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CommentFocus on design is critical as the optimism grows
Confidence is returning to the industry. We must use the renewed energy to ensure that we build in a responsible and resilient way, says Sadie Morgan聽
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NewsCoup for Mace as firm wins 拢570m Birmingham HS2 station
Curzon Street deal means contractor is building both start and finish stations on first section of route
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CommentCarbon targets have been set 鈥� now the hard work really starts
Turning well-meaning words about climate change into measurable action requires fundamental change across the industry,聽writes Mark Farmer聽
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NewsContractors readied as West End refurb job gets green light
Orms-designed scheme will provide retail and office space
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FeaturesNet Zero Live - Time for action
Not before time, construction is getting its act together on reducing carbon emissions, as聽Jordan Marshall聽found out at 星空传媒鈥檚 two-day Net Zero Live conference聽
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NewsMoD estates arm poaches HS2 procurement boss
David Poole takes on new role as commercial director for Defence Infrastructure Organisation
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FeaturesHS2's Kay Hughes: 'We see ourselves as catalysts for creative thinking'
The design director of Britain鈥檚 biggest - and arguably most聽controversial - infrastructure project talks about her ambition to leave a legacy of quality structures and landscapes along the route
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NewsGreen Homes Grant set for autumn reboot, Net Zero Live reveals
Business secretary indicated in talks that聽a replacement for the scrapped domestic energy efficiency scheme is expected later this year
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FeaturesThe modular buildings behind the UK鈥檚 renewable revolution
Renewable energy generation in the UK is on the rise. According to the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, renewables - including wind, solar, hydro among others - accounted for 47% of electricity generation in the first quarter of 2020, up from 35.9% for the same period in 2019. ...
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NewsPlans for Manchester tower abandoned as HS2 buys site from Ballymore
Scheme to build 60-storey block has been mothballed for more than a decade
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NewsGovernment throws further support behind CLC鈥檚 plan to publish firms鈥� net zero progress
Construction minister confirms consultation on initiative to launch in May
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NewsGovernment needs to help industry achieve new net zero targets, experts warn
Technologies and plans need to be supported and funded, groups add
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NewsInfrastructure decarbonisation happening too slowly, CLC warns
Industry body wants sector to speed up process
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CommentThe retrofit innovations that we need at scale
We have the technology to reduce carbon emissions from our homes but take-up is slow - Sam Stacey looks at the quality of life benefits and the subsidy options