Sustainability News in Construction and Infrastructure
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Highways England has announced a new woodland the size of 135 football pitches will be planted in partnership with Forestry England, alongside the route of the proposed L...
Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank and chair of the D20 Long-Term Investors Club (D20-LTIC) today highlighted the crucial need to accelerate investme...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Pakistan signed a $300 million loan to finance the construction of a 300-megawatt hydropower plant in Balakot, Khyb...
ADB agrees $116m green loan financing for 144MW Wind Farms in Vietnam The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a $116 million green loan with Lien Lap Wind Power Joint Sto...
a long-standing industry member of the Calgary Region Airshed Zone non-profit organization, Lafarge Canada Inc. continues to demonstrate unwavering commitment to clean ai...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) has announced the jointly organized “NET ZERO Leaders Summit (Japan Busin...
To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new buildings in the EU become nearly zero...
Today, Sacyr announced the launch of the fourth edition of Sacyr iChallenges, Sacyr’s open innovation and co-creation program targeted at the innovation community t...
One of the challenges of inner-city construction is the pollution and compromised air quality it can cause. With almost 39 percent of the U.S. population living in cities...
A ‘virtual power station’ equivalent to the electricity generation of a gas-fired power station, is being created by UK Power Networks. New contracts for energy capacity...
According to a new study published by McKinsey (2021), over the next few years, the traditional road construction sector will gradually develop into an automated, digital...
world’s first test of a 30% natural gas/hydrogen blend in the forging processes used in industrial steelmaking was held in Rho (province of Milan), at the Forgiatura A. V...
Highways England’s upgrade of the A30 in Cornwall is not just about improving safety, journey reliability and connectivity for local communities – it also goes for otters...
Metso Outotec is introducing a comprehensive eScrap solutions portfolio for the smelting and refining of e-scrap derived from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (W...
ACO Technologies’ achievement in reducing its carbon emissions offers a roadmap to aspiring CO2nstructZero companies, after the company reduced its carbon emissions by 31...
The paving of a road tunnel under the Kriegstrasse in Karlsruhe was carried out under stringent constraints. To reduce emissions, the contractor was required to use machi...
Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, today announced it is joining the fourth annual Call for Code Global Challenge. Created by David Clark Cause and launched...
CIRIA are thrilled to announce this year’s virtual Annual Debate Construction’s race to net zero: fact or fiction will be hosted on 9 June. The event will bring tog...
JCB has lifted a top award honouring the environmental benefits of its new all-electric telescopic forklift. The JCB Teletruk was launched in 1997 and remains the world’s...
An ambitious carbon reduction project has picked up a top award from Highways England for its work transforming the road markings sector. Headed by the WJ Group, the proj...
With over 20 years of experience in protecting waterways around the world, Bolina, an Ecocoast company, is launching a new debris boom to protect critical infrastructure,...
Charles Brooks slung his pick-axe into the soil. It was a simple job, levelling some ground for landscaping. (He’s also pretty handy with an Enterprise drone, and we’ll g...
The available range of renewable low-carbon fuels is growing. Following on from R33 Blue Diesel, Bosch, Shell, and Volkswagen have now come up with a low-carbon gasoline....
As set out in the Government’s Construction Playbook, the construction sector needs to make strides towards the 2050 net zero commitment; tackling the whole life, of our...
In order to achieve the long-term objective of reducing the carbon footprint in the United Kingdom, the government has been incorporating various precautionary measures,...
Chinese recycling processors imported 95% of plastics from the European Union and 70% from the United States for recycling. China’s decision in 2017 to stop the imp...
Bosch, the supplier of technology and services, is combining the internet of things (IoT) with artificial intelligence (AI) and believes electromobility will allow it to...
During difficult times it seems easier to “just get on with it”, trying to adjust to accommodate the way we always did things, but last year has taught everyone to adapt,...
At 01:23:40 on 26 April 1986, the failure of a routine test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, caused reactor 4 to explode, r...
The Domo de San Pedro Geothermal Power Station in Nayarit, Mexico, is the first geothermal power plant in the world to add Mitsubishi Power’s TOMONI™ intelligent d...
Power Edison, the leading developer and provider of utility-scale mobile energy storage solutions, has been contracted by a major U.S. utility to deliver the system this...
A team of contractors, led by Dorset Highways, has successfully completed three months of flood protection work in West Bay. The project highlights the benefits collabora...
No construction professional wants to deal with delays, yet everyone will have to at some point. Running behind schedule is all too common in the industry, as the very na...
Leading water treatment specialist, Siltbuster, has launched an integrated chemical dosing system (iCDS) to sit alongside its already extensive range of treatment solutio...
Highways maintenance contractor Carnell plan to expand its use of renewable fuel to power its projects after cutting its CO2e emissions on a Carlisle scheme by 90%. The t...
The country’s largest fleet of electric refuse vehicles (eRCV) will start taking to the streets of Manchester today as Biffa, the UK’s leading sustainable waste managemen...
A new venture capital fund, 2150, has been launched to invest €200 million ($240 million) in start-up companies developing sustainable technologies to target the carbon f...
Inspired by the VISION concept tyre introduced in 2017, an airless, connected, rechargeable and entirely sustainable solution, the Michelin Group is committed to making i...
DHL Freight, one of the leading road freight providers in Europe, and Volvo Trucks have partnered to speed up the introduction of heavy duty electric trucks to be used fo...
Reconomy has revealed which of the world’s largest businesses are bidding to be named as the most sustainable company. The company has produced an algorithm which measure...
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