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    Pilkington Mirai earns climate upgrade for NSG

    Pilkington UK owner NSG Group has been upgraded in its CDP environmental rating following the introduction of its low-carbon Mirai glass. The not-for-profit charity (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) has upgraded the group’s Climate Change...

    Retrofit Hub launches 2024 with ‘ambitious agenda’

    Nearly 400 leaders from industry, local authorities, NGOs and other bodies gathered at the year’s first meeting of the Retrofit Hub to hear how the organisation had ‘an ambitious agenda’ to tackle the urgent...

    Sternfenster goes for more solar

    Lincoln-based trade fabricator Sternfenster has invested a further £400K in photovoltaic panels that is estimated to produce 490,000kWh per year provide - more than a fifth of the energy the company consumes, and offsetting...

    LHC hosts decarbonisation and retrofit summit

    The LHC Procurement Group is inviting public sector construction suppliers to Retrofit for a Net Zero Future, a major conference based on the group’s £multi-million Decarbonisation and Retrofit (N9) framework. Dean Fazackerley, head of technical...

    Reynaers secure SBTi approval for sustainability goals

    Reynaers Aluminium has been recognised for its global emission reduction targets with official validation by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The organisation has confirmed that both the company’s 2019 baseline targets as well as its...

    New retrofit plan to tackle ‘blight of inappropriate work’

    DLHC ministers have published new plans they say will remove barriers to owners of older properties making energy efficient improvements ‘without the blight of ugly or inappropriate retrofit damaging these properties. The Government has published...

    Liniar joins Future Homes Hub

    Liniar has become a member of the Future Homes Hub. The Hub brings together all those involved in home building to help to achieve the climate and environmental goals for the sector linked to the...

    New white paper provides a guide to calculating embodied carbon

    A new White Paper providing a guide to calculating the levels of embodied carbon in aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling systems has been published by Reynaers Aluminium. This new report considers at what stage...

    New Carbon Calculator from Deceuninck

    Deceuninck has launched a new Carbon Calculator, which allows window companies to work out their headline carbon footprint using their existing metrics. Managing director Rob McGlennon said: “The Deceuninck Carbon Calculator allows you to input...

    GGF takes the case for glazing to Number 10

    The role of glazing in the road to Net Zero was taken straight to the heart of government when the heads of the GGF went to Number 10 to meet PM Rishi Sunak’s political...