Calls for a Government hydrogen strategy
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The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has urged the UK Government to implement a Hydrogen Strategy to help de...
AC systems maintenance key in COVID-19 crisis
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It’s a message we keep hearing from the Government and medical advisors during the coronavirus crisis – ‘we’re ...
Renewables generation accelerating, report forecasts
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As much as 65% of the UK's energy demand could be met by renewable generation within a decade, according to the...
UK broke renewable energy generation record in 2019, new figures reveal
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A record 37.1% of electricity generated in the UK last year was renewable, according to the latest annual energ...
Poor air quality still more of a threat to life than coronavirus
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My head was turned by a headline I spotted last week during my routine media scans proclaiming that poor air qualit...
UK’s electricity system could be carbon-negative from 2033, new report suggests
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Operators of the UK’s National Grid have predicted the country’s electricity supply could capture, offset or ab...
Defra unveils multi-million pound Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment fund
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The UK Government has unveiled plans for a new £5m Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment to protect the envi...
Onshore wind and solar ‘could boost UK economy by £29bn’
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Barriers to onshore ‘shovel-ready’ renewable energy projects should be lifted by the Department for Business, E...
Green Home Grant 2020 announced
The UK Chancellor has unveiled a huge package of measures to spark a 'green recovery with concern for the environment at its heart'.
Under his program...
Covid recovery plan – ‘once in a lifetime chance’ for net-zero economy
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The UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has published what it described as a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ plan to he...
Historic planning overhaul unveiled to get Britain back in business
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has unveiled what he describes as ‘the most radical reforms to our planning sys...
Construction could hold key to economic revival post-COVID lockdown
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Whatever your views on the relative merits of lifting lockdown measures while COVID-19 continues to live among us...
New service launched: Building Services Health Check – Get Britain Back to Work
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With the understandable focus on health and hygiene as the UK gingerly steps out of lockdown and gets back to wo...
UK set to witness massive uptake in low-cost green power
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A series of initiatives are being rolled out to boost the UK’s renewable energy programme as a report indicated c...
UK coal-free power record
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The UK went more than a month without using coal for power during the Coronavirus lockdown – the longest period sin...
How Covid has impacted the planning process
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Local authorities have been urged by the Government to be ‘innovative’ in how they manage applications and workload...
Syntegra Group Q2 2020 – predictions and insights
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]When lockdown is lifted and new normality dawns – whatever that looks like – Syntegra stands ready to support clien...
Focus on UV filtration systems to kill coronavirus
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]While healthcare professionals, scientists and engineers battle to keep COVID-19 patients alive and find a cure/vac...
Noise assessments can continue throughout COVID crisis, advisers rule
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sound and noise assessments will continue across the UK despite the current lockdown situation meaning most people ...
Sustainable modular builds increasingly popular
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With all major construction work on hold until the COVID-19 pandemic passes, developers will be looking for some qu...
Permitted development for airspace development
Property owners will be able to build two additional storeys onto apartment blocks without planning permission, the UK Government has announced.
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Coronavirus: Business planning for the energy sector
During these testing times of global health and economic crisis, the one thing the business world craves (apart from the good health of their teams, n...
COVID-19: The good news story emerging from the sci-fi style crisis
As the world is gripped by the health and economic crisis born of COVID-19 and millions of us start our lockdown life, it is hard to find anything to ...
New innovative scheme to conserve newts and promote sustainable development is rolled out across England
A new approach to great crested newt licensing being rolled out across England has been welcomed by Syntegra’s director of ecology.
Trish Holden sa...
