Sustainability News in Construction and Infrastructure
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Siemens Energy and Traverse City Light and Power (TCL&P) have installed the first circuit switcher that utilizes clean dry air in place of traditional sulfur hexafluo...
Fugro has been awarded a Geo-data acquisition contract to support the World Bank in its efforts to support the Government of Romania in preparing flood hazard and risk ma...
Scientists from the University of Southampton have invented a hybrid catalyst platform that can efficiently and sustainably convert carbon dioxide into versatile plastic...
President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, joined leaders, artists and activists in the global streaming event to highlight actionable and research-backed idea...
Siemens Mobility has successfully installed the first ZephyrS air quality sensors for the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport’s (ADEP...
PARC, A Xerox Company, announced today it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the next development phase in the Ocean...
New Mexico is launching a new ‘smart infrastructure’ and carbon-neutral energy era on a grand scale, after its 2019 Energy Transition Act (ETA) positioned the US state as...
Solidia Technologies CEO Tom Schuler shared the possibility of turning Solidia Concrete into a carbon sink for the planet during his TED Talk at TED and Future Stewards’...
The ReeMAP project aims to develop technology for recycling mine waste. LKAB also plans to produce input materials, including hydrogen, and to electrify processes to virt...
Highways England has reached a major milestone in a £5.2 million programme of environmental improvements across the North West – by restoring actual historic milest...
Imagine a city with buildings run on solar power and thriving biodiversity, with no smog lingering in the air and more cyclists than cars. While this vision may look diff...
This year’s CIRIA Annual Debate will take place virtually on 30 September from 14.00-16.00 bringing together leading experts from the engineering and built environment se...
Fluor Corporation has announced today that NuScale Power, in which Fluor is the majority investor, received final design certification by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm...
CS Energy, LLC, a leading integrated energy firm that designs and builds optimized projects in the solar, storage and emerging energy industries, announced today that it...
Get pedalling! That’s the message from Highways England as Cycle to Work Day takes on a new meaning in 2020. With home working, staycations and local trips all being embr...
With the automotive industry facing unprecedented pressures, HORIBA has launched a new virtual-based solution to Real Driving Emissions (RDE) development – which could sa...
Ingevity Corporation today announced that a study conducted by consulting firm ERM, London, U.K., has determined that the use of Ingevity’s Evotherm® M1 warm mix asphalt...
General Motors today released its 10th annual Sustainability Report, providing transparency and accountability on its progress and key accomplishments. The report outline...
The British government has announced it will relax planning legislation to make it easier to construct large batteries to store renewable energy from solar and wind farms...
Britain’s energy professionals have added their voices to growing calls to ‘build back better’ post COVID-19, according to the Energy Institute’s Energy Barometer 2020. T...
JCB has developed the construction industry’s first ever hydrogen powered excavator as it continues to lead the sector on zero and low carbon technologies. The 20-tonne 2...
VolvoCE (Volvo Construction Equipment) has scooped the Best Sustainable Rental Project of the Year Award for its Energy management, at the 2020 European Rental Awards. Th...
Volvo Group North America recently received a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Better Plants Better Practice Award for preventing and reducing waste at several North Ameri...
Battery manufacturer, Britishvolt, today announces the down selection of two promising sites for the UK’s first 30 plus GWh gigafactory, from an initial 42 locations, wit...
Greater Manchester is set to become greener, as nearly 300 trees are to be planted at Duet Salford Quays (“Duet”), a recently launched More. Build to Rent (“BTR”) develop...
A new Government-backed study pointing to the huge volumes of tyre microplastics being shed all along the UK’s motorways and trunk roads must prompt urgent action to prot...
Hydrogen over the years has had several periods of hypes, which have always turned out to be hot air, but why are we still talking about it, and why is there still the be...
The Sheffield City Region has published an ambitious plan to create a network of more than 620 miles of accessible walking and cycling routes across South Yorkshire to en...
Drones have become a critical tool for professionals working in a large variety of different sectors such as public safety, search and rescue, infrastructure inspection,...
Siltbuster Process Solutions, the water treatment specialist, has provided a temporary wastewater treatment solution for Welsh Water at its visitor centre in the Llys y F...
The construction of the C-43 water reservoir is part of the giant hydrological restoration project taking place in the Everglades. Dozens of VolvoCE machines are on site...
Siltbuster Process Solutions (SPS), the water treatment specialist, is helping Live Trakway, the company which supplies temporary roadways to construction sites and major...
Copenhagen Airports, A.P. Moller – Maersk, DSV Panalpina, DFDS, SAS and Ørsted have formed a partnership to develop an industrial-scale production facility to produ...
AMTE Power and Britishvolt are pleased to announce plans to investigate collaborating to build the UK’s first full cycle battery cell GigaPlant, servicing the automotive...
Fluor Corporation announced today that it was awarded the front-end engineering and design (FEED) for Minnkota Power Cooperative’s (Minnkota) Project Tundra, a carbon cap...
NIB has signed a ten-year loan agreement of €70 million with Fortum Oyj to finance the refurbishment of two hydropower plants in Sweden and one in Finland. The investment...
Last June, researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst released a startling report estimating that the amount of power required for training and searching a...
recent survey undertaken by Motorbike insurer Bikesure of 1,000 commuters in London set out to find how the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) had impacted them, in reflectio...
Honda Motor Europe is expanding its battery recycling partnership with SNAM (Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux) to advance the sustainable usability of its end-of-li...
The coronavirus does not stop Helsinki’s climate work. The schedule for the international Helsinki Energy Challenge has been altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic, b...
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