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Keystone continues its live webinar series

|Date: 28 October, 2022

Keystone continues its live webinar series

Keystone Live continues its popular and insightful webinar series holding its third and fourth debates th ...

Keystone Live continues its popular and insightful webinar series holding its third and fourth debates this November. Featuring expert speakers and covering a range of topics and issues, the last two ...

28 October, 2022
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Wates’ science based target receives official validation

|Date: 7 October, 2022

Wates’ science based target receives official validation

Wates Group announces that its near-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target has been approve ...

Wates Group announces that its near-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction target has been approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), committing the company to reduce absolute Sco ...

7 October, 2022
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Salford strives for ‘fuel-bill-free’ housing as city is labelled energy crisis hotspot

|Date: 7 October, 2022

Salford strives for ‘fuel-bill-free’ housing as city is labelled energy crisis hotspot

A new Salford-based housing project boasts adapted construction methods to achieve affordable Passivhaus, ...

A new Salford-based housing project boasts adapted construction methods to achieve affordable Passivhaus, at the same time as new research names Salford as an ‘energy crisis hotspot’. Construction has ...

7 October, 2022
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Can you rise to the green heat hub grand challenge?

|Date: 6 October, 2022

Can you rise to the green heat hub grand challenge?

Scottish Enterprise has launched a Green Heat Hub Grand Challenge to encourage innovation around the gree ...

Scottish Enterprise has launched a Green Heat Hub Grand Challenge to encourage innovation around the green heat solutions of the future, from heat pumps to battery technology, that will lead to the cr ...

6 October, 2022
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How green are modular homes?

|Date: 2 August, 2022

How green are modular homes?

With a national housing shortage and ambitious housebuilding targets for developers and local councils to ...

With a national housing shortage and ambitious housebuilding targets for developers and local councils to meet, is now really the time to put the pressure on the industry to explore more sustainable m ...

2 August, 2022
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July heatwave: Preparing the built environment for intensifying heatwaves

|Date: 18 July, 2022

July heatwave: Preparing the built environment for intensifying heatwaves

Richard Tibenham, Business Development Manager at built environment climate tech firm, IES, discusses wha ...

Richard Tibenham, Business Development Manager at built environment climate tech firm, IES, discusses what climate change and its subsequent unusual weather conditions mean for building energy use and ...

18 July, 2022
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Exclusive polling reveals voters’ message to incoming Prime Minister: give councils more money and power for Net Zero to ease the cost-of-living crisis

|Date: 14 July, 2022

Exclusive polling reveals voters’ message to incoming Prime Minister: give councils more money and power for Net Zero to ease the cost-of-living crisis

People across the UK want to see more support for local authorities to deal with the threat of climate ch ...

People across the UK want to see more support for local authorities to deal with the threat of climate change and more support for Net Zero action to address the cost-of-living crisis, according to a ...

14 July, 2022
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Social housing provider reduces carbon output by a third

|Date: 12 July, 2022

Social housing provider reduces carbon output by a third

Orbit, leading social housing provider and developer, has announced it has reduced the carbon footprint o ...

Orbit, leading social housing provider and developer, has announced it has reduced the carbon footprint of its operations by a third (33%) since it established a baseline in 2018, and by 6.9% in the p ...

12 July, 2022
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L&Q secures £525m sustainability linked loan to drive affordable housing plans

|Date: 4 July, 2022

L&Q secures £525m sustainability linked loan to drive affordable housing plans

L&Q has secured a £525m sustainability linked funding package from Lloyds Bank to support the housing ...

L&Q has secured a £525m sustainability linked funding package from Lloyds Bank to support the housing association’s target of building 8,000 new homes by 2024, of which 50% will be affordable. The ...

4 July, 2022
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UL | Come up to standards

|Date: 30 June, 2022

UL | Come up to standards

Gailord Nepp, Head of Building Envelope Testing at UL, offers a guide to meeting the required standards f ...

Gailord Nepp, Head of Building Envelope Testing at UL, offers a guide to meeting the required standards for curtain walling and rainscreen cladding for local authorities and housing associations. It’s ...

30 June, 2022
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