Local communities urged to get ‘smart’ on tackling litter with launch of the Government’s...
Almost £500,000 will be awarded to community projects to tackle the blight of littering, Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey announced on 26 August.
The money will...
Cloud-based energy aggregation and battery waste innovators pick up low carbon funding awards for...
A cloud-based energy aggregation service has picked up the Shell Springboard and Shell LiveWIRE awards, securing £180,000 of equity free funding. Another award went...
Judges to consider legal challenge to new planning laws
A legal bid to halt sweeping changes to planning laws in the UK will be heard in October.
The challenge to the Statutory Instruments (SIs)...
Utility invests in connected gas detection
Yorkshire Water has placed a £1.1m order for connected safety products and services from Blackline Safety, a manufacturer of safety monitoring technology. The order...
Preventing aerosol transmission
A variety of measures are needed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 in nursing homes, and it is particularly important to develop a strategy to protect healthcare workers from airborne transmission.
Preparing for the worst
A new portable area monitor is said to be the only direct-to-cloud area monitor capable of detecting up to eight gases and gamma radiation.
The...
The importance of containing radon gas
Deadly radon claims thousands of lives every year. Installing gas barrier membranes can help protect homes and save lives
Radon gas claims thousands of victims...
Appreciable differences: Built environment efforts to incorporate acoustic comfort vary widely by country
Efforts to design and retrofit buildings to ensure reasonable acoustic performance or tolerable noise levels for occupants seem to be progressing. Different market practices...
Firm delivers savings and efficiency for new life science facility
Creating a new hygienic production facility that includes ATEX zone 1 areas is a complex task, especially when the facility will need over 1,400...
Advanced personal sampling pump added to rental fleet
The latest air quality sampling pumps from monitoring solutions firm Casella have been added to the Ashtead Technology fleet of instruments for measuring occupational...
Helping the workforce learn to manage asbestos
SGS UK, a company focused on inspection, verification, testing and certification, is offering training to help employees avoid exposure to asbestos to and manage...
UK-India water MoU offers “great boost” to trade
British Water chief executive Lila Thompson has said a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed between India and the UK’s leading water sector trade association will “bring a great boost” to trading relationships between the two countries
2017 rateable values include unexpected business rates hike for solar rooftop
Business rates for ‘mainly export’ solar agreed with Valuations Office but concern over 6-8 fold tax hike for business solar rooftops
The draft rateable values...
Conservation Finance Project aims to drive significant investment into Scotland’s natural environment
An ambitious new initiative aims to pioneer new ways of funding nature conservation in Scotland through the launch of the £1 Billion Challenge.
...
Real-time CO monitoring protects workers in mobile cleaning units
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A recent solution for carbon monoxide monitoring demonstrates significant safety, data and productivity...
£1.8 million will support initiative to engineer a quieter future
An interdisciplinary network of engineers, policymakers, industry stakeholders and social scientists, led by the University of Surrey, will take on one of the UK’s...
Balancing sustainability and noise in air source heat pumps
Hope Denton, Acoustic Solutions Specialist at Jacksons Fencing, writes
The UK has set ambitious targets to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and one key...
World Economic Forum: “Investing less than 1% of world GDP into nature-based solutions can...
New study appears to find that a tripling of current investments into nature-based solutions is needed by 2030 to tackle the climate...
Government attempts to reduce environmental protections in planning bill could breach international law, says...
The government’s flagship Planning and Infrastructure Bill could be in breach of international law, according to new legal advice from a leading KC.
Planning and...
EV Battery health concerns are the biggest barrier to used-EV sales, says new report
Addressing barriers to the second-hand EV market could help encourage over 17 million UK drivers to make the switch to electric, according to study.
The...
