A PRODUCT innovation that reduces fuel usage on JCB diggers and allows operators to get to site quicker is today recognised with one of the highest honours in the UK – a Queen’s Award.

 Lord Henley, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, was the special guest on a tour of sites demonstrating the ‘zero waste’ approach to construction waste in Brighton & Hove on Thursday, 31 March.

 

The tour was set up by the European Zero Waste Partnership, which oversees the programmes of work carried out by Pathway To Zero Waste (PTZW) and its sister project, European Pathway to Zero Waste (EPOW).

Kier North Tyneside operative goes above and beyond to have positive environmental impact

Operatives in North Tyneside have discovered the benefits making a few small changes can have on their carbon footprint thanks to newly introduced environmentally friendly processes implemented onto sites across the region. The scheme, set up by Kier North Tyneside temporary site supervisor Jimmy Scott, involves collecting rainwater and reusing it on site to mix mortar, service toilets and clean tools.

New European CEO aims to generate private-public real estate investment partnerships. LONDON (April 26, 2011)  -- Joe Montgomery has joined the Urban Land Institute (ULI) as its new Chief Executive for Europe with responsibilities covering the expansion of its services and membership across Europe, and increasing the collaboration between public and private sectors in real estate and city development.

The Environmental Industries Commission [1] is today launching its 2011 “Manifesto for Driving Growth and Competiveness in the UK’s Green Economy”. The Manifesto will be launched in the House of Commons Members’ Dining Room, with a keynote speech from Mark Prisk MP, Minister for Business and Innovation.

This environmental industry policy manifesto sets out a series of recommendations on how the Coalition Government can establish a  world-leading environmental industry in the UK - with thousands of new businesses, hundreds of thousands of new jobs and huge export potential. This Industry Manifesto has been prepared by leading business people and policy experts in the UK’s environmental industry, which has a value of £112 billion, an export turnover of some £10 billion and employs just under one million people.

RDM, the leading UK energy and building controls specialist, last month held its first international distributor conference at its headquarters in Glasgow. The two-day event drew together senior representatives from the company’s growing international network, which now covers the US, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Turkey and Malaysia. Delegates were given an insight into RDM’s plans for the future, including the long-term vision for the company’s development and product launches planned for the coming year.

A key part of RDM’s strategy is to build on its success and leadership in the refrigeration and food retail sector by expanding into the wider market for energy and building controls.

Andrew Chandler, RDM managing director, said: “The pioneering platform at the heart of RDM technology has been hugely successful in the food retail industry. However, it is designed to be infinitely flexible and can be applied to almost any building or application.”

Eighty per cent of households in Wales can now see how much food they throw away thanks to separate collections of food or food and green waste. All 22 Welsh councils provide the service to at least some of their residents, and the number of households covered continues to grow.

As a result of the current drive to install renewables, and with government targets for all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016, construction companies are being invited to meet with both experts in renewable energy and those that make, sell and install these technologies, at a new show in the south west of England.