In what we at Cedrec HQ are dubbing the 'Surrey Chainsaw Tree Massacre', police officers have arrested a man they believe to behind the senseless destruction of over 50 trees in the Surrey area.
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrisk has appointed two experts to undertake an independent review into the system used for testing construction products.
Former Government adviser, Paul Morrell...
A 72 metre long tidal turbine, named Orbital O2, developed by Orbital Marine Power has been launched from the port of Dundee.
Orbital O2, which its developers claim is the world's most powe...
The European Commission has reached a deal on new European wide climate change targets that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels)....
The Met Office in conjunction with Microsoft, have announced that they are going to build the most powerful climate forecasting supercomputer in the world.
They have confirmed the computer...
JNR Developers Limited, have been prosecuted and fined £32,000 following Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspections that found repeated poor standards of safety at...
A Bill seeking to establish independent local planning processes to determine housing development planning applications submitted by local authorities is being debated in Pa...
The United States has announced it will cut carbon emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade, which is a significant and ambitious plan, and a somewhat welcome move given...
Being the first major developed economy to do so, the UK is looking to toughen its targets on greenhouse gases over the next 15 years.
The government's climate advisors recommend that...
A planning application has been submitted by Scottish Power to build a clean energy and hydrogen production hub in Scotland. The project would be based at ScottishPower's 539MW Whitelee wind farm,...
Boris Johnson is being urged by several built environment professionals, including the RTPI, to reverse new regulations that will see parts of the planning process skipped to turn commercial b...
Regardless of a lowering in emissions from the COVID pandemic, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have hit record highs.
Data taken from the recording station at Mauna...
A director was ordered to pay £50,000 in fines, compensation and legal costs, whilst the other faces a five-year ban as a company director, for operating an illegal waste wood operation in Es...
On 1 April 2020, Natural England and Natural Resources Wales published an updated version of the Countryside Code to help people enjoy the outdoors.<...
Following a worker's fall through a skylight during the construction of a new farm building in Wimborne, Cutler Bros Ltd. and it's Director, Roger Martin Cutler, have been sentenced.
On 22...
