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Green light for £1.7bn Stonehenge tunnel

Construction Enquirer

The Department for Transport has approved plans for the vast A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade including a tunnel under the historic Stonehenge site. The green light was finally granted on Friday following a long-running planning saga.

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A Third Company Pilots Volvo Electric Trucks On-Road in California

Construction Equipment

Volvo Trucks North America has announced that third-party supply chain solutions provider NFI began piloting two Volvo VNR Electric trucks as part of the Volvo LIGHTS (Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions) project, becoming the third company to deploy its battery-electric trucks. The Volvo…

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Greensburg, Kansas Rebuilds Green After Tornado

Natural Building

Greensburg, a farming community in southwestern Kansas with a population of 900 rebuilt “green” after a tornado barreled through at more than 200 miles per hour and nearly wiped it off the map in 2007. She said, ‘It sounds like you’re going to build it green,’” Hewitt recalled. Green Building Council, a nonprofit organization.

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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Green Building Law Update

It also includes greenhouse gases that come from producing the goods or services that the individual uses, including emissions from power plants that make electricity, factories that make products, and landfills where trash gets sent. As urban areas develop, buildings, roads, and other infrastructure replace open land and vegetation.

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Seven Construction Associations You Should Consider Joining

Fieldwire

American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). Green Project Management (GPM). Independent Electrical Contractors (IEC). National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED). National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA). Green Building Council (USGBC).

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New Civil Engineering Technology 2022

CivilJungle

Kinetic Roads. The innovation in 2021 in civil construction is, glazing integrated photovoltaic that can help generate their electricity to buildings, into a solar panel by turning the whole building envelope. To transport hubs the Kinetic footfall is most efficient where over it a large flow of people will pass. Kinetic Roads.

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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING SITE PLANNING

The Constructor

There should be good transport facilities such as railway, bus service, for going to office, college, market, etc. Civic services such as water supply, drainage sewers, electric lines, telephone lines, etc. Residential house site should be located away from the busy commercial roads.