Trade body’s Japanese knotweed training launched in online format
Professionals in the invasive weeds sector can now tap into a popular...
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The Best Ways to Improve Your Home: A Practical Guide For Beginners
If your home is starting to feel a little tired or you’ve...
Defining where Innovation starts and stops can be a challenge for SMEs – at Indeglås it’s an…
The UK Government’s ‘Build Back Better’ plan emphasises the need for companies,...
One in five construction employees have suffered from bullying in the last year, impacting their…
21% of construction employees have experienced bullying in the last year with...
Launch of The Pallet LOOP™ is welcomed by key construction industry players
The problem posed by the lack of pallet reuse in the UK...
How many diggers would it take to pick up all the plastic waste from the last 12 months?
The UK is one of the worst polluters for single-use plastic per person. We produce 4.9 million tonnes of plastic each year, with ¾ of that eventually ending up in landfills. As a whole, the UK produces...
New hospitals set for a sustainable future
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has set an ambition to meet new standards for greener and more sustainable hospitals in the UK, as part of its Hospitals of the Future Project that will see the construction of two new state-of-the-art…
BSI awards COP26 certification against sustainable events standard
The planning and delivery of this year’s COP26 event in Glasgow has achieved certification against ISO 20121: Sustainable Events Management following an audit by BSI, the business improvement and standards company.
BSI sustainability…
Build to Innovate – public sector professionals invited to new Public Buildings Framework launch…
Public sector procurement experts LHC London and South East will be hosting a...
Be on the right side reducing plastics in the environment
Plastics, particularly waste plastics, are one of the most ubiquitous man-made materials on the planet. Waste plastics can be found on the peak of Mount Everest and the bottom of the Mariana Trench, in the Antarctic and Artic, in the Gobi…
ISS announces new Global Head of Sustainability
In another sign that the FM sector is building up its green credentials, Tracy Nilsson will join ISS as Global Head of Sustainability on 1 January 2022. With the hire of an experienced international profile that has spent most of her career…
CIWM launches new strategy ‘Leading the Way to a World beyond Waste’
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has launched its new strategy, ‘Leading the Way to a World beyond Waste’, to support the UK waste and recycling sector in promoting more sustainable consumption, minimising waste and…