Sustainability
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Urbanised designs of the future - the eco-friendly movement
Environmentally friendly design techniques can help slow down the rate of climate change. -
WSP to become carbon neutral by 2025
WSP restructures to better deliver its corporate social responsibility and sustainability aims. -
Energy storage can save £8bn in the UK
Energy storage offers the UK a significant opportunity to develop a more efficient and sustainable industrial strategy. -
From ‘nice to haves’ to the mainstream
There is growing interest in sustainability and climate resilience in the planning of major infrastructure projects. -
Driving the resource efficiency agenda
With significant development projects on the horizon, the construction industry needs to ramp up its efforts to adopt a more sustainable approach to resources. -
Meeting the challenge of sustainable infrastructure
The challenges of achieving sustainable infrastructure development can be overcome, if a more incentivised and value adding approach was established, says Jay Rao , who examines how this could lead to better practice, and an... -
Gain the advantage – embed natural capital
Businesses throughout infrastructure supply chains should be bringing natural capital into their decision making, says AECOM director of sustainability, Robert Spencer. -
Give engineers more chance to solve sustainability challenges
Krisztina Bordacs, Lead Sustainability Consultant at MWH says that to speed up solutions to ‘sustainability’ challenges, we need to apply engineering principles and give engineers a bigger role -
Innovative asphalt ramping up recycling
Trials of an innovative asphalt material in London aim to prove road surfacing materials can perform well with 50% recycled content -
World’s largest retrofit project aims to cut building emissions
The world’s largest collaborative project on building renovation has been launched by Green Building Councils across Europe.