Environment

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Deceuninck has cut CO2 emissions from its operations by 21% since 2021 – from 673,095 tonnes in 2021 to 530,836 tCO2e (Carbon Dioxide equivalents) last year. The achievement puts it ahead of its 2022 target...