Sustainability

The team behind the £6bn Meridian Water development are to produce a guide so those working on other large regeneration programmes can learn how to make their projects greener. A six-month, in-depth exploration of how the project can implement its sustainability goals – including making it a zero-carbon and zero-waste…

Keltbray has committed to using at least 11,000 cubic metres of a low-carbon concrete in its projects by the end of June next year. The guarantee is part of a deal struck with Australian cement maker Wagners and London-based supplier Capital Concrete, which will see the contractor deploy Wagners’ Earth…

Three specialist contractors have been shortlisted to deliver a £683m energy-from-waste (EfW) plant for the North London Waste Authority (NLWA). The three firms – Spanish bidder Acciona Industrial, French contractor CNIM, and Switzerland-based Hitachi Zosen Inova – will submit detailed proposals ahead of further evaluations next March. The contract is…

Advocates of sustainable construction must ensure the terms they use are understood by those they’re speaking to. Several panellists at Construction News’s Decarbonising Construction online conference warned that the use of jargon can be unhelpful when dealing with supply chains and the wider public, but stressed the need to try…

Concrete and cement producers have warned the industry needs “robust financial support” from government “no later than 2021” to address the costs of developing industrial-scale carbon capture technology. The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has set out steps it says are required to bring overall carbon emissions from their products below…

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has called for the chancellor to delay tax changes to red diesel when he sets out his comprehensive spending review later this year. In a formal submission to the Treasury ahead of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s review, the trade body said the construction industry will still…

The movement to decarbonise the UK economy could bring financial benefits to the construction industry, according to Costain chief executive Alex Vaughan. Speaking at the CN Decarbonising Construction online conference, Vaughan said: “There is a huge opportunity for us as a sector to benefit from the drive to reduce carbon.”…

HS2 believes incentives are better than penalties to reduce carbon emissions in its supply chain, a senior member of the project has said. Director of environment Peter Miller said the project is to set out carbon targets and form a new board to hold people to account for the reductions.…

The industry needs to deliver a mass programme of retrofitting now, according to JLL’s sustainability director. Speaking at the CN Decarbonising Construction conference, Sonal Jain warned viewers that the UK Government’s target of a net-zero carbon economy by 2050 is at risk because 80 per cent of the buildings that will…

Greener building standards need to be made law and enforced immediately, the chair of the government’s climate change advice body has said. Former environment secretary and chair of the committee on climate change Lord Deben told the CN Decarbonising Construction conference today that new buildings that don’t meet zero-carbon standards…