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Upgrading the UK’s existing buildings key to coping with future record heat

|Date: 11 January, 2024

Upgrading the UK’s existing buildings key to coping with future record heat

Richard Tibenham of climate tech firm IES says upgrading the UK's existing buildings will be key to copin ...

Richard Tibenham of climate tech firm IES says upgrading the UK's existing buildings will be key to coping with future record heat. The confirmation that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded demons ...

11 January, 2024
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First Net Zero school in Leicestershire marks opening with time capsule

|Date: 2 January, 2024

First Net Zero school in Leicestershire marks opening with time capsule

Hollycroft Primary School makes history as the first Net Zero school to open in Leicestershire. To mark i ...

Hollycroft Primary School makes history as the first Net Zero school to open in Leicestershire. To mark its opening, new homes developer Bloor Homes partnered with construction firm Willmott Dixon to ...

2 January, 2024
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Howells Patent Glazing | Shining a light on education

|Date: 27 November, 2023

Howells Patent Glazing | Shining a light on education

Tracey Jackson, Business Development Manager at Howells Patent Glazing, talks to LABM about the importanc ...

Tracey Jackson, Business Development Manager at Howells Patent Glazing, talks to LABM about the importance of light in education facilities and offers advice on the specification of rooflights. There ...

27 November, 2023
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Morgan Sindall set to deliver Deliver Suffolk’s first net zero primary school

|Date: 6 September, 2023

Morgan Sindall set to deliver Deliver Suffolk’s first net zero primary school

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Eastern Counties business, alongside design and property consultants Concer ...

Morgan Sindall Construction’s Eastern Counties business, alongside design and property consultants Concertus, have been appointed to deliver a 420-place Net Zero in operation primary school and pre-sc ...

6 September, 2023
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Insurers likely to exclude RAAC claims, say lawyers Winckworth Sherwood

|Date: 5 September, 2023

Insurers likely to exclude RAAC claims, say lawyers Winckworth Sherwood

The use of RAAC is likely to be widespread, affecting many buildings constructed between the 1950s and 19 ...

The use of RAAC is likely to be widespread, affecting many buildings constructed between the 1950s and 1990s. Building owners with defective RAAC are likely to look to their insurers. And as with defe ...

5 September, 2023
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Strive AV | Navigating the digital transformation

|Date: 5 September, 2023

Strive AV | Navigating the digital transformation

With schools and other local authority buildings navigating a period of intense digital transformation, T ...

With schools and other local authority buildings navigating a period of intense digital transformation, Toni Chalk, Managing Director of Strive AV, discusses the key trends in technologies and how to ...

5 September, 2023
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HOPPE (UK) | Education matters

|Date: 1 September, 2023

HOPPE (UK) | Education matters

Here, Andy Matthews, Head of Sales at HOPPE (UK), discusses the scale of repair and maintenance works nee ...

Here, Andy Matthews, Head of Sales at HOPPE (UK), discusses the scale of repair and maintenance works needed in schools across the country and how the company’s products can help. At the end of 2022, ...

1 September, 2023
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HMX UK | Turn up the heat on energy savings

|Date: 30 August, 2023

HMX UK | Turn up the heat on energy savings

Dominic Wish, HMX UK Technical Director, shares with LABM how a pioneering new approach to reducing energ ...

Dominic Wish, HMX UK Technical Director, shares with LABM how a pioneering new approach to reducing energy use and carbon emissions is seeing the heating bills of eight schools in Essex drop by up to ...

30 August, 2023
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Business Stream awards £50k to water efficiency projects

|Date: 18 August, 2023

Business Stream awards £50k to water efficiency projects

One of the UK’s largest water retailers has donated £50,000 to public sector organisations throughout Sco ...

One of the UK’s largest water retailers has donated £50,000 to public sector organisations throughout Scotland to help fund water efficiency projects. Edinburgh-based Business Stream set up its annual ...

18 August, 2023
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Schools share £18.6m decarbonisation makeover in Fusion21-backed government pilot

|Date: 7 August, 2023

Schools share £18.6m decarbonisation makeover in Fusion21-backed government pilot

Seven UK schools have been selected to take part in an £18.6m innovative Decarbonisation Pilot, led by th ...

Seven UK schools have been selected to take part in an £18.6m innovative Decarbonisation Pilot, led by the Department for Education (DfE). The pilot will see schools benefit from new low carbon heatin ...

7 August, 2023
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