Sustainability News in Construction and Infrastructure
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The city of Kherson in southern Ukraine with a population of approximately 300,000 is replacing its ageing fleet of trolley buses with a modern and ecologically friendly...
In a new report from Sweco, energy-storage-as-a-service is highlighted as a concept with potential to change the industry and cut carbon emissions. It entails making ener...
As the effects on the world become too great to deny, weβre seeing more and more focus turning towards the level of waste produced globally. A widespread understanding th...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided almost β¬200m for clean urban transport to cut the polluting emissions produced by buses in Spain’s largest cities. T...
The South African Department of Science and Innovation together with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are hard at work on an experimental project that w...
Anglo American announces that its Unki platinum mine in Zimbabwe is the first to publicly commit to be independently audited against the Initiative for Responsible Mining...
The Organization of Consumers and Users ( OCU ) has carried out a study to identify the cleanest cities in Spain. The result shows that the majority are in the north of t...
Colourful carpets of grasses and wildflowers are being sown and planted as Highways England looks to get Cumbria Buzzing and encourage wildlife to thrive and create beaut...
Skanska is trialling use of recycled plastic kerbing instead of concrete to reduce carbon by 40 per cent. The trial is taking place as part of work to find innovative way...
The Woods Waste Group, a waste management solutions provider in Blackpool, north-west England, uses its fleet of CASE Construction Equipment machines to recycle 85% of th...
People living near a major Highways England roads project have benefitted from new quieter roadworks as hydraulic piling equipment was used to force steel sheets into the...
SWARCO Traffic Ltd has signed a new agreement with Cambridgeshire County Council to replace existing traffic technology with an innovative new traffic guidance and parkin...
Safety Signage and Products manufacturer Spectrum Industrial have introduced a new Hedgehogs Ahead sign as part of their road safety signs range. Back in June, former Tra...
A 150 EC-B 8 Litronic PT Flat-Top crane is the centrepiece of a climate research project in HΓΆlstein near Basel: Currently a simulation is carried out there to find out w...
ACOEM Group has broadened its technical expertise and market presence in air and gas monitoring following the acquisition of DynOptic Systems Ltd, a specialist manufactur...
Siemens Mobility has been awarded a contract to design, supply and install a clean air zone (CAZ) ANPR camera monitoring and enforcement solution across Birminghamβs city...
The first installation of SDS Aqua-Xchange ™, the sustainable drainage innovation which turns roadside filter drains into treatment devices that protect the water...
Verksbyen, a new green neighbourhood in Fredrikstad in Norway, showcases the future of sustainable living. As part of the project, construction company Arca Nova Bolig is...
ExxonMobil and Mosaic Materials said today that they have entered into an agreement to explore the advancement of breakthrough technology that can remove carbon dioxide f...
Growth opportunities in the global construction additives market look promising over the next six years. A global uptick in construction activities, stringent building co...
Floating cities are modern, sustainable communities built on deep bodies of water. Since the Aztec Empire and the canal city of Amsterdam, urban planners have long discus...
Technology which could improve air quality in local communities by helping the way drivers leave motorways was named today as one of the successful entries in a multi-mil...
Around the world, people are flocking from rural areas to cities. By 2050, there will be more than six billion people living in megacities, twice as many as now. Over the...
Supporting the UK governmentβs drive towards a net-zero carbon emissions economy, Durakerb (part of the Econpro group) has announced the installation of its 400,000th ker...
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has announced 16 MSEK of investments at its Eskilstuna site in Sweden, including an arena for customer demonstrations of electric...
A new vision is looking to tackle the world’s problem of unrecyclable plastic and turn it into a solution – aiming to βturn off the plastic tap into the ocean...
Schools near Glasgow have been monitoring air quality as part of a project aiming to reduce the levels of pollution emitted by vehicles as they drop off and collect child...
While resurfacing the cinema car park in Feurs (Forez Est, central France) and modernising the heat and energy systems in 76 social housing units in Fleury sur Orne (Norm...
Two fully electric powered roadworks vehicles are being trialled by Highways England for the first time, the company announced today. One of the vehicles is being used ac...
290 trains across 373 kilometres serving 2.6 million passengers in a single day are now green as more than half of the Delhi Metro transport system now runs on solar powe...
Highways England has reached a significant milestone of installing 100 cycle path schemes to improve the safety of cyclists and walkers around the countryβs busiest roads...
Three specialised, independent research companies – Climate Neutral Group, CE Delft and SGS Search – have researched and calculated the COΒ² emissions during t...
No matter how astonishing a building looks, itβs all a waste if the inside is inhabitable. Especially, when the primary purpose for buildings is to be used by people! One...
A project led by the Network Rail and Colas Rail has used solar lighting and power generation to prove the viability of a sustainable βSite of the Futureβ, achieving 97%...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is financing the modernisation of the Barcelona fleet of city buses, by granting a β¬73.5m loan helping Transports Metropolitans de Barc...
One of the busiest buildings at the University of Dundee was able to benefit from a complete replacement of its waterproof roofing with Alumasc Derbigum Olivine roofing m...
In March the European Commission (EC) together with the European Investment Bank (EIB) launched the new CEF Transport Blending Facility, an innovative financial instrumen...
Minster Surfacing, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, is a finalist for three BusinessGreen Leaders Awards and for two National Recycling Awards. Last year,...
Energy production is a major source of global greenhouse gas emissions. We can reduce these emissions by using energy in smarter ways and reusing excess energy. In a new...
A survey of 1,000 Londoners to find out if they will make any changes due to the new regulations being introduced for the Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) found that 82.1%...
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