Road decarbonisation competition launches

The seven successful applicants are sharing a £30m fund

Bill Bryson slams M&S Oxford Street building plans

There are calls for the building to be retrofitted instead of being knocked down and rebuilt

Skyscrapers made of cabbage leaves and orange peel?

Scientists have found a new method to create cement from food scraps

Mercedes F1 team ends Kingspan sponsorship

The racing team was recently condemned for the deal by campaigners and survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster

Wooden flooring tech turns footsteps into electricity

ELN has talked with scientists who have invented a wooden floor that can produce energy to power LED lights

Swansea Uni granted £36m to research green building materials

The university develops coatings that generate electricity from heat and light

Insulated panels cushion Kingspan to better than expected results

International building materials company Kingspan has posted better than expected financial results for the first six months of the year. Revenue was up 13% to €858.4 million (£735 million) and trading profits increased 6% to €55.9 million (£47.9 million). Shares in the insulation giant rose by more than 6% on the Irish Stock Exchange on […]

UK builders’ merchant aims for zero waste to landfill

A UK building materials supplier has signed a deal with a waste management firm to help achieve its zero waste to landfill targets. Under the contract, Biffa will convert Jewson’s waste into 3MW of renewable energy, which will be used to supply some of the manufacturing business of Saint-Gobain Construction Products UK, Jewson’s parent company. […]