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Energy efficiency becomes priority for businesses

10 August 2010

Business owners are pushing energy efficiency higher up their agenda when choosing potential new premises, in a bid to cut costs.

Green entrepreneurs get free training

10 August 2010

Entrepreneurs working in environmental sectors are being offered free business training at the Enviro-Entrepreneur School in Nottingham.

Siemens takes billion dollar wind power order

10 August 2010

Siemens said today it has won two orders in the United States and Canada to supply wind turbines worth around $1.1bn.

Stride Treglown Architects win award for eco - friendly Sainsbury’s

9 August 2010

Stride Treglown Architects has been awarded the ‘Best New Building’ for its design of the new Llanthony Wharf Sainsbury’s store at this year’s Gloucester Civic Awards.

CBI calls for clarity on energy policy

9 August 2010

The CBI today called on the Government to deliver key energy and planning reforms within six months, or risk undermining emissions targets and energy security.

CarbonBuzz wins three-year grant

9 August 2010

CarbonBuzz, the architectural and building services engineering community’s carbon management scheme, which provides an online platform to benchmark and track project energy use from design to operation, has been awarded a three-year match funding grant from the Technology Strategy Board under the Design & Decision tools competition.

Woods Bagot, Brookfield and WSP launch green retrofit JV

6 August 2010

Architect Woods Bagot, contractor Brookfield, and consultant WSP have teamed up to create a green retrofitting business in what is thought to be the first venture of its kind in the UK.

David Lock Associates get green light for Derbyshire brownfield scheme

6 August 2010

David Lock Associates’ proposals for a major regeneration scheme on a 110 ha brownfield site near Burton-upon-Trent have been approved by South Derbyshire District Council.

BoE interest rates stay the same

5 August 2010

The Bank of England has kept interest rates at a record-low of 0.5% today, a decision which was no surprise.

Three take £700m deal to link wind farms to grid

5 August 2010

Balfour Beatty Capital, Macquarie Capital Group and Transmission Capital Partners have been named as preferred bidders by energy regulator Ofgem to own and operate the first £700m worth of transmission links to seven offshore wind farms.

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