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WRAP Launch Initiatives to Assess Building Waste Neutrality

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) has announced the start of a number of pilot projects, which will test the proposed Net Waste Method, launched by the organisation last month. The method, which aims to pr...

23 Jul 2007

Docklands Light Railway Extension Has Positive Environmental Impact

A new report has shown that the Docklands Light Railway extension to London City Airport has brought huge environmental benefits with around 120,000 fewer taxi rides and 288,000 fewer car journeys having been necessary, ...

23 Jul 2007

H+H Celcon, The First Precast Concrete Manufacturer to Achieve Energy

H+H Celcon UK has become the first aircrete manufacturer and the first company in the precast concrete industry to achieve accreditation under the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme (EEAS), the UK’s independent...

23 Jul 2007

Leighton Wins $500m Contract for Sonoma Coal Mine

Leighton Contractors’ Mining Division has been awarded a five-year contract worth in excess of $500 million by Sonoma Mine Management Pty Ltd. Under the contract Leighton Contractors will perform bulk excavation...

19 Jul 2007

John Holland Win Contract to Build Sydney's Desalination Plant

John Holland is pleased to announce that the Bluewater Joint Venture, consisting of John Holland and Veolia Water, today signed the $960 million contract to design and construct the Sydney Desalination Plant. The Blue...

19 Jul 2007

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Appointed Master Designer for Duke University Redevelopment

The Duke University Board of Trustees has approved the selection of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects as master designer for redeveloping the school’s Central Campus. As master designer, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architect...

19 Jul 2007

Architectural Billings Index Reaches High for the Year in June

Following an almost three point spike in May, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) zoomed up more than four points in June reaching its highest mark of the year. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity,...

19 Jul 2007

New Software Package Allows Homeowners to Assess Various Risks

Regina Hunter, retired Sandia National Laboratories employee, is launching a new software product, Safe at Home™, based on Sandia-developed RAMPART™. Safe at Home allows homeowners to assess risks arising fro...

19 Jul 2007

Remote Alaskan Community Assessed for Biomass Energy

The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) conducted a feasibility study to determine the most economical solutions to provide biomass energy to the entire Chugachmiut Tribal Communi...

19 Jul 2007

More Green Choices for Garden Furniture Available to Consumers

Consumers looking to green up their patios with sustainable garden furniture have more products to choose from, but still face challenges finding them in stores, according to a new survey of major outdoor furniture retai...

19 Jul 2007

Sheets of Solar Cells that can be Printed with a Domestic Printer

Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an inexpensive solar cell that can be painted or printed on flexible plastic sheets. "The process is simple,? said lead researcher and author S...

19 Jul 2007

The Benefits of Buying Environmentally Friendly Computers

Numerous environmental benefits of buying high-performance, environmentally friendly computer equipment are highlighted in the first annual report issued by the Green Electronics Council this week. The report, called "Th...

19 Jul 2007

Wires Could Become a Thing of the Past

New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make that tangle of wires under desks and in data centers a thing of the past. Scientists at the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech a...

19 Jul 2007

Celcon Thin Joint System Integral in Flower Show Gold Medal Win

The Celcon Thin-Joint system played a vital part in enabling Tony Smith of Hortus Infinitus win a Gold Medal for his stand at this year’s Hampton Court Flower Show. Four blocklayers together laid 740 Celcon blocks ...

18 Jul 2007

UK Housing Market Remains in A Correction Phase in June

In the latest indication that the housing market remains in a correction phase, housing starts rose 2.3 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.467 million following downward revisions for the previous ...

18 Jul 2007