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...
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...
Industry must speed up on sustainability – RICS
A call to accelerate the growth of green building has come from surveyors in their annual sustainability report, which cites high costs or low availability of low carbon materials and skill shortages as being...
Low Carbon Homes heads for Liverpool
The online retrofit conference Low Carbon Homes Liverpool goes live from Tuesday, January 19, for three days of knowledge-sharing to consider how Liverpool can rapidly scale up the retrofitting of housing across the city...
Epwin highlights sustainability in new brochure
Epwin Window Systems has published a new brochure showing the manufacturer’s cradle-to-cradle approach to the sustainability of its systems.
Business Development Director Phil Parry said: Sustainability is front and centre across all our business practices....
Pilks reveals massive ‘green’ hydrogen plan for low carbon glass
Pilkington UK has unveiled plans for a large-scale hydrogen production plant at its Merseyside base to provide green energy for manufacturing low carbon glass in a move described by the company as a blueprint...
Chiller upgrade saves a cool 550m3 of carbon for Deceuninck
Deceuninck has reduced its carbon output by 550 cubic metres per year by upgrading the water chilling system in its factory in Calne.
Operations director Darren Woodcock said: “Our current energy usage for chilling the...
Homeowner demand for sustainability still strong, new survey shows
Further support for the growing recognition of sustainability among homeowners has come from a new survey showing more than three quarters consider it to be important, with nearly a third saying they would be...
Window Widgets is tonnes better with zero landfill
Window Widgets has marked its first year of zero waste to landfill with the announcement that it has diverted over 42 tonnes of PVC waste away from being dumped.
The manufacturer has also recycled 10...
Trade bodies join forces to tackle retrofit green goals
More than 40 industry bodies have joined forces to create a new National Retrofit Hub to promote best practice in making the UK’s existing housing stock more energy efficient towards the country’s net-zero goals.
“The...
