Cement producers’ pipeline plans take shape

The US-headquartered advanced engineering company will work alongside Turner & Townsend, Mace Consult, Hochtief, and Unipart to deliver three small modular nuclear reactors on the North Wales site by the mid-2030s.

A need for a government funding commitment has led Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to adjust its estimated planning application submission date from 2026 to 2028.

Rachel Reeves said government changes to planning laws will tear down barriers to growth after a raft of planning reforms received Royal Assent.

The 18-month programme includes asbestos removal and the demolition of industrial buildings on the landmark 1970s site outside Warrington.

The UK’s legally binding commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 is driving a transformation across the built environment, fundamentally shifting the way we heat our homes, offices, and cities, writes Joseph Lazell of Cundall.

The site of the island’s former Wylfa plant will be home to the country’s first three SMRs, which will be developed by Rolls-Royce and backed by £2.5bn from the government.

Fortune favours the brave when it comes to making historic buildings low-carbon and energy-efficient, writes Iain Shaw of Max Fordham.

The whir of machinery and the hiss of steam engines are returning to the Manchester attraction after being quiet for six years.

Morgan Sindall Infrastructure, Costain, and Hochtief will make up the Infrastructure Delivery Partnership, which is set to support essential services for the nuclear plant’s decommissioning.

Nine turbines can now be installed on the boundary of Conwy and Denbighshire following the approval of RWE’s Alwen Forest proposals.

Making good on its promise of a £9.4bn investment in carbon capture technology from the Spending Review, the government has made a final investment decision on a Flintshire facility that could create carbon-free, net zero cement as well as an Ellesmere Port waste-to-energy plant.

Place North’s very first conference focused on the energy transition and upgrading the region’s power networks shone a light on the ambitious renewable energy projects in the pipeline and highlighted the many challenges ahead for the development sector in the pursuit of net zero.

Power cuts, once rare, are now a strategic risk. Recent outages at Heathrow and across the Iberian Peninsula have highlighted just how fragile modern infrastructure becomes when the grid goes down, and how unprepared many systems remain, writes Peter Ridge of Cundall.

Cubico Sustainable Investments’ plan to install a battery energy storage system on 15 acres of Green Belt off Rochdale Road close to the wind farm has suffered a setback after the local authority moved to reject the plan.

Public sector organisations within the city region will be invited to apply for cash to deliver projects aimed at cutting emissions in schools, town halls, and some medical settings.

Nuclear Waste Services has appointed the builder on a four-year contract to deliver a range of site infrastructure for the Low-Level Waste Repository in Cumbria, which safely stores nuclear by-products.

Architect Levitt Bernstein, in collaboration with low energy specialist Etude, has developed a three-part document package for Greater Manchester Combined Authority, to help applicants comply with the joint spatial plan’s sustainability aims.

The Department for Transport’s £30m ADEPT Live Labs 2 programme has been exploring the impact changes in material for road surfaces, markings, and plant can have in the real world.

Expected to generate enough energy for more than 10,600 homes, Renewable Connections Developments proposed power plant would take up 81 acres at Fowl Farm in Cuerdley.