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Smith's Environmental launches heat pump and emitter package

Smith's Environmental has launched an air source heat pump and heat emitters central heating package.

29 Jun 2010

SBAS logo lights boiler makers' fire

Wood-based fuel suppliers can now be certified as part of the Solid Biomass Assurance Scheme (SBAS) launched by HETAS.

28 Jun 2010

Graduate joins Self Energy in Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Energy management company Self Energy UK has appointed Daniel Matson as Sustainable Energy Performance Systems Developer under a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) agreement with the London South Bank University (LSBU).

28 Jun 2010

ENER-G plans Eastern European CHP growth

Manchester-based firm ENER-G is expanding its CHP operations in Eastern Europe by partnering with Latvian m&e firm Vega 1.

25 Jun 2010

Baxi's Osborne sees upside to LCBP closure

The termination of the government-funded Low Carbon Buildings Programme (LCBP) "clears the way for a broader, more financially sustainable approach in encouraging the installation of low and zero carbon (LZC) heating technologies in our home", says the Baxi group's Simon Osborne.

24 Jun 2010

Colleges to bid for slice of £50m funding pie

Colleges can bid for a slice of £50 million for facilities, now that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has released details of a new scheme.

23 Jun 2010

Budget's green deal promises insulation jobs

Tens of thousand of jobs are to be created in the insulation market promises the government's green deal announced in Chancellor George Osborne's budget.

23 Jun 2010

UK's poor insulation checks heat up

Heat seeking vehicles have been driven through the streets Reigate & Banstead in a bid to find homes with poor insulation and its residents are the latest to get advice from Mark Group on how best to tackle the issue.

22 Jun 2010

TROX UK gets new product development team

TROX has restructured internally, forming a new product management team for the UK.

22 Jun 2010

Pre-2010 BSF spending decisions face the axe

The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander has announced the projects being suspended or cancelled as part of a review of 2010 spending decisions, but a new review into the Building Schools For Future (BSF) programme could reverse decisions made before 2010.

17 Jun 2010

Serial cowboy pays £53,711 for dangerous gas work

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted Chris Bradshaw, trading as Chris Bradshaw Heating and Plumbing, for repeatedly committing safety breaches involving dangerous and illegal gas work.

16 Jun 2010

DECC minister visits insulation academy

Greg Barker MP, minister of state for Climate Change visited has insulation specialist Mark Group in Leicester to meet the 1,000th trainee to graduate from its academy since it opened in 2008.

16 Jun 2010

British Standard for collaborative working needs your views

National standards body, the British Standards Institute is seeking industry views to help shape a new British Standard (BS 11000) for collaborative business relationships.

16 Jun 2010

BAXI MD joins CIBSE board

Paul Hardy, the managing director of Baxi Commercial division, has been elected to the board of CIBSE.

16 Jun 2010

Henderson Green helps complete hospital annex

The three-storey phase of a major new building at Southampton General Hospital featuring designs by building services consultancy Henderson Green has just been completed.

15 Jun 2010

Zero carbon targets are unrealistic, warns survey

A survey of the UK development industry, shows that 75% of the industry - which accounts for nearly half of all UK carbon emissions - does not believe the government's zero carbon targets for the sector are realistic.

15 Jun 2010

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15 Jun 2010

ADCAS tells ductwork firms to stand up to steel bullies

"Companies tendering for ductwork contracts are being bullied into cutting their prices to the bone and beyond" said Malcolm Moss, president of the Association of Ductwork Contractors and Allied Services (ADCAS).

14 Jun 2010

Plumb trade honours from the Middle Ages

A group of plumbers and electricians have been honoured by City of London livery companies that have represented tradesmen in England since the Middle Ages.

11 Jun 2010

Morrell backs CPA's energy efficient refurb guide

Chief construction advisor Paul Morrell backed the launch a new refurbishment guide published by the Construction Products Association, which offers small builders advice on increasing the energy efficiency of existing housing stock.

10 Jun 2010

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Smith's Environmental launches heat pump and emitter package

SBAS logo lights boiler makers' fire

Graduate joins Self Energy in Knowledge Transfer Partnership

ENER-G plans Eastern European CHP growth

Baxi's Osborne sees upside to LCBP closure

Colleges to bid for slice of £50m funding pie

Budget's green deal promises insulation jobs

UK's poor insulation checks heat up

TROX UK gets new product development team

Pre-2010 BSF spending decisions face the axe

Serial cowboy pays £53,711 for dangerous gas work

DECC minister visits insulation academy

British Standard for collaborative working needs your views

BAXI MD joins CIBSE board

Henderson Green helps complete hospital annex

Zero carbon targets are unrealistic, warns survey

Score free ads and back our boys in the footie challenge

ADCAS tells ductwork firms to stand up to steel bullies

Plumb trade honours from the Middle Ages

Morrell backs CPA's energy efficient refurb guide

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