Sustainability News in Construction and Infrastructure
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With the construction industry under pressure to maximise its recovery and act on climate change, Shell has introduced its refreshed portfolio of Shell Naturelle biodegra...
If the Earthβs oceans were drained completely, they would reveal a massive chain of undersea volcanoes snaking around the planet. This sprawling ocean ridge system is a p...
Quanergy Systems, Inc., a leading provider of OPA-based solid state LiDAR sensors and smart 3D solutions for automotive and IoT, today announced a new smart LiDAR deploym...
Experts from global energy and environment consultancy Ricardo are leading an international consortium to support the Mexican Governmentβs plan to reduce greenhouse gas (...
The Department for Transport has awarded funding through Innovate UK to a consortium to lead the UKβs first ever study on the electrification of long range trucks with dy...
A new International Energy Agency (IEA) report for the G20 Italy Presidency examines how cities can be a key to a net-zero emissions future as digitalisation opens up a r...
The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA), in partnership with the University of Missouri and The Ray, a non-profit proving ground for sustainable transportation te...
Saint-Gobain, the worldβs largest building materials company, and ecomedes, developer of the leading sustainable building products platform, today announced a partnership...
Thanks to Hibooβs solution, equipment users and renters are now able to collect and measure the COβe (the COβ equivalent) emissions related to the fuel consumption of eac...
Cree Lighting announced the completion of an extensive project in the City of Sandy, Oregon, converting all of the cityβs street lights from inefficient high-pressure sod...
French specialty materials manufacturer Arkema is now harnessing the capabilities of Swiss logistics digitization pioneer Nexxiot. The companies have partnered to digitiz...
A new whitepaper on the βNeed for hydrogen truckingβ sets out the underlying arguments in favour of the use of hydrogen to decarbonise long-haul trucks. The evidence for...
Highways England has announcedβ―itsβ―ambitiousβ―newβ―carbon plan that will see it rapidly cut carbon fromβ―road construction, maintenance and operations, andΒ support theΒ trans...
Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is releasing a new high-resolution, 2050 global land cover map as part of the companyβsΒ Living Atlas....
Itβs a problem affecting everyone, from suppliers to their customers: weβre in the middle of a supply shortage. The planetary crisis behind finding aggregates has hit all...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $6 million grant to launch the initial phase of the Desert to Power West Africa Regional Energ...
Electric vehicles are driving the UKβs green transition, helping the nation on its journey towards sustainability and net zero emissions by 2050. To achieve this goal, th...
TheΒ United Nations Development ProgrammeΒ (UNDP) and theΒ European Bank for Reconstruction and DevelopmentΒ (EBRD) re-affirmed their partnership today with a memorandum of u...
Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced the publication ofΒ Protecting the Places We Love: Conservation Strategies for Entrusted Lands and Parks....
The World Bank Board of Directors approved a $100 million loan to support the Ulaanbaatar Sustainable Urban Transport Project, which will develop a comprehensive framewor...
A newΒ platformΒ showcasing real-time data from 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean has revealed that on environmentally sustainable post-COVID-19 spending, Lat...
Uganda has today joined the Clean Seas Campaign, demonstrating the countryβs commitment to curbing the flow of marine litter and plastic waste entering lakes, rivers, and...
Helion Energy, a clean electricity company committed to creating a new era of clean energy through fusion, today became the first private company to announce exceeding 10...
On the 8th of July 2021, EDGE, a sustainability-focused design and construction showroom,Β will launchΒ itsΒ London resourceΒ centreΒ in Marylebone.Β The first of its kind,Β ED...
Trains in Wiltshire are now running on top of old bottles, food packaging and other unwanted plastics, with the introduction of the first composite railway sleepers on Ne...
Leading construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has welcomed the news that firms looking to bid for UK government contracts worth more than Β£5m will need to...
For Aberdeenshire-based Red Stag Materials, meeting statutory Net Zero targets while improving the nationβs infrastructure represents a huge challenge β but also real opp...
RHC, a leading industrial construction contractor, has announced plansΒ to offer solar energy construction services that will cater to oil and gas companies as well as ind...
A section of the M3 motorway in Hampshire is becoming the first stretch of motorway to use a resurfacing material which contains the highest proportion of recycled asphal...
SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall have now produced the world’s first hydrogen-reduced iron sponge on a pilot scale. The technological breakthrough within the HYBRIT initia...
After several COVID-related setbacks, the Environment Bill, which provides a post-Brexit framework for environmental governance in England, is set to become law this autu...
Ferrovial has taken a new step in its commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, integrated into the company’s strategy, with the implementation of new Social...
In a pledge to reduce its carbon impact and help meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is announcing the scope of its Science Bas...
Resilience First in partnership with Intel have today published a new white paper on βDecarbonisation and the role of technologyβ.Β This paper outlines how technology and...
AlbaniaΒ has launched its first tender for utility-scale onshore wind power plants today. Individual projects with a capacity of between 10 MW and 75 MW can apply. Several...
The problem with excavated earth and rocks is, from an economic, regulatory, and an environmental perspective. However, there is a solution and is within reach. Although...
The construction industryΒ is known for its heavyΒ use of naturalΒ resources, whichΒ isΒ often an unavoidable part of the process. However, as theΒ UK Government becomes more c...
The start of this month saw Birmingham City Council launch its new Clean Air Zone (CAZ), with the scheme being enforced from this week. Siemens Mobility Limited designed...
world-first recyclable waste stock market has launched to connect eco-conscious buyers and sellers while challenging the belief that all waste is worthless. The Green Alc...
Regional transport body Midlands Connect has outlined plans for an Β£800million alternative fuels network, which if installed could create an international centre of excel...
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