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Navigating the UK’s 2025 Building Regs: What Contractors Need to Know

UK Construction Blog

The post Navigating the UKs 2025 Building Regs: What Contractors Need to Know appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Key Points The 2025 UK Building Regulations, under the Future Homes Standard, aim to reduce carbon emissions from new homes by 75-80% compared to 2013 standards, focusing on energy efficiency and low-carbon heating.

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Deep energy retrofits: The future of sustainable buildings

Construction Specifier

As the global focus on sustainability and climate change intensifies, the United States is seeing a new trend in building restoration-deep energy retrofits. buildings account for nearly 50 percent of energy consumption and 35 percent of total energy-related emissions.

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Where HS2 went wrong

The Construction Index

In October 2024 the then transport secretary commissioned a review of the procurement and delivery of major transport projects, with specific reference to HS2. It sets out how the politicians in a hurry to build the world’s best and fastest railway meant that cost control went out of the window and gold plating ran riot.

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Reds10 starts RAF bunks

The Construction Index

While the annex will be powered by air source heat pumps and solar panels, the layout is not of the new common design for single living accommodation. When complete, the new Officers’ Mess annex will have a hugely positive impact on those commissioned personnel living on the station and those who visit for courses and conferences.”

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Blackwood invests £3.5m in Cat machines

The Construction Index

Robot brickie builds Durham houses 20 hours A bricklaying robot is making its UK debut in Durham. Government brings in consultants for greener roads 4 hours National Highways has commissioned consultants to produce a new environmental sustainability strategy. in Cat machines Share Share Share Share Blackwood invests £3.5m

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Costain to design underground hydrogen storage facililty

The Construction Index

Costain will deliver two front-end engineering and design (FEED) contracts to support its development. The £300m facility will be designed to store a working gas volume of approximately 400 million cubic metres (mcm) of hydrogen, equivalent to storing 1,300 gigawatt hours of hydrogen. Got a story? Email news@theconstructionindex.co.uk

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Glasgow approves Graham’s student tower

The Construction Index

Designed by Cooper Cromar, the architecture draws inspiration from the Seagram Building in New York, the developer said. Costain to design underground hydrogen storage facililty 2 hours Engie-subsidiary Storengy UK has commissioned Costain to design its planned Keuper gas storage project.