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The latest developments in green pactice, eco-projects and sustainable products

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Government loses feed-in tariff appeal

25-Jan-2012 | By Tom Fitzpatrick

The government has lost its appeal against a High Court decision that it acted unlawfully in slashing solar subsidies

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Judicial review date set on government's feed-in tariff cuts

16-Dec-2011 | By Greg Pitcher

The High Court has given permission to Friends of the Earth and solar firms Solarcentury and HomeSun to challenge the government’s plans to slash financial incentives for solar electricity.

Middlehaven in Middlesbrough, backed by BioRegional Quintain

BioRegional Quintain to close doors

14-Nov-2011 | By Richard Waite

Super-green developer BioRegional Quintain will wind up its operations once its FAT-designed 80-home Communtiy in a Cube housing block at Middlehaven completes next month

The 3R Awards retrofit debate

3R Awards debate: Is cost the principle driver for retrofits?

10-Jun-2011 | By

Speakers at last night’s 3R Awards retrofit debated whether cost was the only driver for innovative reuse of buildings

Completed: dm3 reveals 'off-grid' school addition

4-Jun-2011 | By Richard Waite

[First look] Bath-based dm3 architecture has completed this £360,000 stand-alone classroom block at Roe Green Junior School, in Kingsbury, North London

Acme's proposed Low Carbon Energy Centre (LCEC) - part of Hammerson’s £600 million Eastgate Quarters retail-led development in Leeds city centre

Acme reveals Leeds city centre power station

14-Apr-2011 | By Richard Waite

Acme has submitted plans for a Low Carbon Energy Centre (LCEC) as part of Hammerson’s huge £600 million Eastgate Quarters retail-led development in Leeds city centre

Eco charity resigns over new homes rules

4-Apr-2011

Environmental charity WWF-UK has resigned from a Government taskforce to make homes “zero-carbon” after ministers watered down the rules on making houses greener

Zero carbon hub secures private funding lifeline

2-Feb-2011 | By

A body that provides advice to the housing industry on ‘zero carbon’ construction has secured its financial future after agreeing a funding deal with the private sector

Video: Highlights from AJ/Mace roundtable ‘Future of the sustainable office’

30-Nov-2010 | By Simon Hogg

Video: Industry experts talk legislation, embodied energy and the impact of the recession in Arup Associates’ Ropemaker Place. Hattie Hartman chairs the event

Boris unveils London retrofitting project

21-Sep-2010 | By

London Mayor Boris Johnson has heralded large-scale public and private sector retrofitting schemes as key method of providing green jobs and boosting the capital’s low-carbon economy

Max Fordham: Free study and tool on school energy use

20-Sep-2010 | By

Max Fordham has revealed its latest study looking at the difference between predicted and actual energy usage in schools

Ingleton Wood's Mendip Road scheme

Ingleton Wood reveals UK’s most sustainable social housing

15-Sep-2010 | By

Multi-disciplinary outfit Ingleton Wood claims to have completed the UK’s first social housing scheme to attain level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes