Category: Sustainable Building Professionals & Materials (06.01.2009)
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...
Category: Sustainable Building Professionals & Materials (05.01.2009)
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...
Category: Sustainable Building Professionals & Materials (02.01.2009)
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...