Sustainability

Sellar has unveiled its initial proposals for the £1.5bn redevelopment of Liverpool Street station in London. The developer, responsible for other major projects in the capital such as the Shard, outlined plans for a new office, retail, and leisure scheme with new public and green spaces. Proposals for the station,…

Balfour Beatty has joined forces with a Norwegian engineering firm to strengthen its chances of securing work on UK offshore wind projects. The tier one contractor has signed a memorandum of understanding with Aker Solutions to deliver “end-to-end design and construction solutions” for the concrete floating and gravity-based offshore wind…

Bam’s UK and Ireland businesses have set a target to achieve net zero carbon emissions in their direct operations by 2026. The company said this went beyond Royal Bam Group’s target to reduce its direct emissions by 80 per cent by 2026 from 2015 levels. Bam said it would not…

Plans for a huge underground nuclear waste disposal facility could create more than 4,000 jobs, a government report says. The paper published by Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), a government agency, said works to build a geological disposal facility (GDF) – the location of which is yet to be decided –…

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to turn the UK into a clean-energy superpower – stating his ambition to establish a government-owned energy company within his first year in office. Addressing delegates at the annual Labour Party conference in Liverpool, Sir Keir said he would work with current shadow…

The government has announced a three-month review of its net-zero strategy, barely a year after it was launched. Former energy minister Chris Skidmore will lead the “rapid review” of the government’s approach to delivering on net-zero targets, after being commissioned by business and energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg. The government published…

Investors have submitted outline plans for a £300m expansion of an automotive and low carbon engineering research and development (R&D) technology park in the Midlands. Developer and investor Evans Randall Investors has applied for permission from North Warwickshire Borough Council to develop MIRA Technology Park (MTP) in Nuneaton. The proposed…

Developer CIT has been given the go-ahead to knock down a 70s tower block near London Bridge and replace it with a 22-storey commercial development.Southwark Council approved plans for the redevelopment of Colechurch House on Wednesday (14 September), a Brutalist office block just north of London Bridge station between Duke…

ISG is committed to delivering Britishvolt's £3bn gigafactory despite recent disruptions, a senior level executive at the contractor has confirmed. Last month, the tech start-up's co-founder Orral Nadjari revealed that rising energy costs had pushed back the expected completion date of the Northumberland project to mid-2025. The factory's main facility,…

The insulation and solar power arm of the UK's largest roofing specialist, which entered administration last week, has been acquired by a private investor – saving all 100 jobs in the division. Avonside Energy was one of the 39 divisions which fell into administration last week when the wider Avonside…