Businesses in the events planning sector are taking sustainability into account, one expert has said.Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has led a number of firms to take the environmental impact of conferences and shows in to consideration. Event venues have already taken a note of environmental issues and have waste management...

A sustainable development plan has been unveiled in Scotland designed to offer greater direction in developing eco-friendly projects in future.Architecture and Design Scotland has developed its People, Places and Planet publication in an effort to ensure new buildings in the country conform to high standards of sustainable development."Climate change is...

The Welsh Assembly has become the first authority in the UK to introduce a set of standards for sustainable building professionals.Environment, sustainability and housing minister Jane Davidson announced the new green homes guidelines today (May 7th).The legislation sets a national standard for all new buildings built in Wales from September...

The government has announced a new plan to establish the potential for marine energy off the coast of England and Wales.A study from the Department of Energy and Climate Change will asses if Welsh and English waters can be used to generate wave and tidal power.Details were revealed at the...

Sustainable building professionals from Spain visited Merton Council to discuss renewable energy initiatives surrounding green homes. Members of the Spanish Federation of Local Authorities visited Merton to find out more about the Merton Rule, a database of information relating to the amounts of renewable energy used by buildings in the...

High performance windows, thermal mass and a central air handling plant are among the technologies that will be deployed to make Severn Trent's new offices in Coventry.The development, which has already received an 'excellent' rating from BREAMM, will be one of the most eco-friendly in the UK, with developers hoping...

Technologies such as ground and air source heat pumps, solar thermal water heating and microgeneration could receive a boost following the announcement of a new group launched in Wales to cut buildings' carbon emissions.Earlier this week, the Welsh Assembly announced the formation of a coalition with the building industry housing...

A Welsh hospital has made an application for a green fuel centre that would see a wind turbine and biomass fuel processor power the building's needs. Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea has applied to the local council for permission to build the centre, which would be shielded from the view...

The UK could be facing legal action over its failure to meet air quality rules, it has been revealed. EU environment commissioner Stavros Dimas, writing in a letter to Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey, said that infringement proceedings were being prepared. The failure comes in relation to the...

The chief executive of an organisation which champions sustainable development has been awarded an OBE as part of the Queen's New Year's Honours List, reports 24dash.com.Gideon Amos is chief executive of charity the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and as such is in charge of ensuring that new housing...

Energy assessors could urge customers to follow the lead of a recent collaboration to cool a company's computers with canal water to save energy.British Waterways and pharmaceutical GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have launched an energy saving cooling mechanism which uses water from the Grand Union Canal at GSK's west London headquarters.Using a...