Sustainability

Offsite modular specialist Elements Europe has landed a £100m deal to build a hotel and office scheme in Hackney, London. The development is located on East Road and will feature a 17-storey modular hotel build, constructed in a volumetric fashion, which means that large chunks of factory-produced elements will be…

Alliance Homes has secured a £75m loan from Lloyds Bank, on the condition that it will enhance the energy efficiency of its housing stock. The terms of the loan require that the margins on which it is borrowed are linked to three key performance indicators (KPIs). The first KPI requires…

More than half of the public are unaware of small modular nuclear reactors, data from an online government poll has shown. The department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy conducted an online survey of a random sample of the public to gauge responses to basic questions about renewable energy and…

Bam Construct has bagged a contract to redevelop a 108,000-square-foot office block in London. The contractor will refurbish the site at 11 Belgrave Road in Victoria, which it said was the first construction project in the UK to receive a 5.5-star NABERS rating for building efficiency. The job, for US-based…

The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has said that the cancellation of the red-diesel rebate has compelled it to publish new standards for the pricing of work carried out on a day-work basis. The trade body is made up of 300 contractor members and publishes the Schedules of Dayworks, which…

Build UK’s latest set of questions for contractor pre-qualification has been updated to include sustainability and diversity requirements. The construction body released the latest edition of its Common Assessment Standard (CAS) yesterday. Pre-qualification questionnaires are usually used by clients to assess the suitability of prospective bidders. They are specifially recommended…

Construction contract provider NEC is introducing a method of holding firms to account over their carbon-reduction promises amid fears about greenwashing. The organisation – part of the Institution of Civil Engineers – announced plans to add the X29 clause to its NEC4 suite of legal agreements for use on projects.…

Contractor and fit-out specialist ISG has bought a majority stake in ESS Group, in a move aimed at growing its business. ESS Group, which has headquarters in Manchester and Dublin, is a specialist in modern methods of construction (MMC). It employs 280 staff across four offices and three manufacturing facilities…

The government is set to take a 20 per cent stake in Sizewell C, EDF’s £20bn proposed nuclear power plant in Suffolk. According to a BBC report, French state-owned energy firm EDF will match the UK government’s 20 per cent stake. It is expected that the twin investment will attract…

A Turkish firm is pushing ahead with plans to revamp a 148-acre paper mill in Flintshire, Wales. Eren Holding is consulting on the renovation job at Shotton Mill (pictured), which it says would make it the biggest paper mill in the UK. The Turkish conglomerate said it would invest £600m…