LLANGEFNI: Huws Gray and environmental website BuilderScrap have collaborated on a Reuse Road Show to help builders cut waste.

DONCASTER: Palram Polycarb, manufacturer of thermoplastic sheets, has achieved energy savings in excess of 180 000kWh at its Doncaster production facility in the first six months following the installation of the Powerstar voltage optimisation system.

BARROW: Brett Landscaping has developed a new RIBA Approved CPD presentation entitled ‘SUDS and the Role of Permeable Paving’ designed to inform architects, engineers and other specifiers on the need for Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS), the key policy and regulatory drivers, as well as an explanation of how permeable pavements work within SUDS design.

LONDON: Energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, yesterday announced details of a "green loans" scheme to help people pay for improvements to their homes to make them more energy efficient.

COVENTRY: Jewson is looking for the UK construction industry's first 'Green Genius'.

UK From 1 April householders and communities who install low carbon electricity technology such as solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbines up to 5mW will be paid for the electricity they generate, even if they use it themselves. The Feed-in Tariffs scheme aims to encourage deployment of additional low carbon electricity generation, particularly by organisations, businesses, communities and individuals who are not traditionally engaged in the electricity market.

WALES: Hemp lime wall construction has been used for the external walls of the new Wales Institute for Sustainable Education's Centre for Alternative Technology.

REDHILL: The UK’s biggest water and energy saving project – Tap into Savings – was launched recently in Surrey.

WORCESTER: Plans to include bio-fuels as part of the Renewable Heat Incentive could signal a major revival in oil-fired heating.

CAMBRIDGE: Installer Peter Thom was one of the first heating engineers to fit a new condensing boiler under the Government’s boiler scrappage scheme when he installed a Worcester Greenstar 24i system on 22 January.

LEAMINGTON SPA: Wolseley’s UK head office and Sustainable Building Center (SBC) in Leamington Spa has hit the big zero on waste to direct landfill, increasing overall recycling levels to around 90% as part of the company’s ‘war on waste’ campaign.

CHELTENHAM: Greenshop Group has lowered the carbon footprint of its employees during the working day to less than half the national average.

The merchant has also offset its carbon footprint, becoming a "CarbonZero Company" through co2balance.

LONDON: Travis Perkins and Kingfisher are among the 35 companies that responded to the Forest Footprint Disclosure project survey on deforestation.

HERTS: Boiler and renewables manufacturer Vokèra has become an official member of the Solar Trade Association (STA) as part of its ongoing commitment to providing low-carbon heating solutions.

LONDON: A special Parliamentary Luncheon was held today by the National Home Improvement Council specifically aimed at promoting water conservation and energy efficiency.

WORCESTER: npower's hometeam reported a has seen a six-fold increase in customers enquiring about replacement or new boilers since the announcement of the Government's boiler scrappage scheme.

BILSTON: Mueller Europe, manufacturers of Wednesbury Streamline copper tube, has achieved ISO 14001 accreditation, further enhancing the company’s green credentials.

EDINBURGH: The boiler scrappage scheme running in England is set to extend to Scotland and Wales.

BRISTOL: SIG Sustainable Solutions has welcomed the publication of the Government's Feed in Tariff (FIT), designed to incentivise homeowners and businesses to adopt micro-generation to create green electricity. The FIT kicks in on April 1 2010 and will pay investors for the electricity generated from low carbon energy sources.

WORCESTER: The Government’s plans for a Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which will encourage householders to install renewable technologies to generate domestic heat, could be left dead in the water by regulatory red tape which is discouraging installers from going green.

BRISTOL: Civil engineering and building material supplier, Burdens is piloting an energy usage-monitoring scheme through the Carbon Low Ongoing Emissions Evaluation (CLOEE) system for Welsh Water as part of Burdens Utilities support as the logistic partner of Welsh Water.

COVENTRY: Geothermal International has welcomed an influential report which suggests that more than one million ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems could be installed in the UK in the next decade.

LONDON: Energy efficiency is a critical issue for businesses. Schneider Electric's series of events highlights the ways to understand the issues.

LONDON: Catalyst Corporate Finance predicts new wave of investment in building products sector.

WORCESTER: Part of the Bosch Group, Worcester, has accomplished its environmental commitment by reaching 100% recyclability for all its products, thereby achieving its zero waste to landfill objective.

LONDON: All member companies of the European Lead Sheet Industry Association (ELSIA) have given an undertaking to manufacture all their products exclusively from recycled material, with immediate effect.

CHESHIRE: Isover, a developer of sustainable insulation solutions has achieved Environmental Management System ISO 14001:2004 certification at its Runcorn manufacturing site.

WEST YORKSHIRE: Hard landscaping specialist Marshalls has achieved the Wildlife Trusts' biodiversity benchmark for land management for the second time.

UK: In the absence of any meaningful progress at last month’s Copenhagen climate summit, the freight industry is leading the debate on how to record and sensibly reduce its own carbon emissions.

WORCESTER: The Copenhagen Summit has damaged the cause of climate change and could lead to UK consumers 'switching off' from the global warming debate, according to one of the UK's leading manufacturers of heating technologies.

COLCHESTER: While the world’s leaders have been meeting in Copenhagen over measures to halt climate change, East Anglian building supplies company Kent Blaxill has had a green audit from local school pupils.

EAST KILBRIDE: Representatives from PTS joined John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth for the launch of eco home ‘Aurora’ at South Lanarkshire College, East Kilbride on the 1 December 2009.

UK: The country’s biggest property developers have warned that carbon reduction targets will be missed unless measures to improve existing buildings are introduced.

ESSEX: As part of an ongoing commitment to raise awareness for energy efficiency and green manufacturing, Smith’s Environmental Products, the leading supplier of domestic and light commercial fan convectors in the UK, invited Mark Francois MP to its factory in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex.

COPENHAGEN: The UK timber industry has urged world leaders to agree on a workable action plan for timber sustainability at the forthcoming COP15 summit.

LOUGHBOROUGH: A business improvement consultancy specialising in corporate social responsibility has seen its workload increase as companies reassess their environmental policies.

UK: Smart meters will by top of the energy providers' agenda by the end of 2020.

UK: More than one in five small firms are delaying embracing environmentally-friendly measures because of the recession. Almost as many are being encouraged to implement them, a survey carried out by the Forum of Private Business suggests.

KENT: Vaillant's commitment to reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions has been reinforced by an endorsement by the Energy Saving Trust across its entire ecoTEC boiler range.

LONDON: Housing and Planning Minister John Healey confirmed today that the UK will be the first in the world to require zero carbon homes as a matter of law from 2016.

LONDON: Shadow Housing Minister Grant Shapps explained how a Conservative government will provide up to £6500 in energy home improvements.

BATH: The market for low carbon building materials was boosted with fire-rating approval for straw bales and hemp panels used as renewable building materials.

LONDON: T-ZERO, a project by some of the UK's leading organisations in the fields of energy conservation and housing, puts energy and environmental performance expertise in the hands of the householder, housing stock manager, merchant, designer or builder.

WEMBLEY: Greenworks, the sustainable building solutions service available through Jewson and Graham, has delivered the first of a series of national training ‘roadshows’ that aim to make tradesmen throughout the UK more aware of the Code for Sustainable Homes.

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME: SCA's Simple Carbon Aggregator has been extended, and is able to map carbon and resource efficiency throughout the supply chain from SCA's forests, through to its customer operations to the builder working on site.

KETTERING: Construction companies with ideas for products that will reduce greenhouse gases should apply for money from a new green investment fund.

MILTON KEYNES: Homebase stores are switching off lights during sunny working hours in an attempt to reduce power bills.

LONDON: Slow stock rotation poses problems for DIY retailers signed up to packaging reduction targets of 15% by 2012.

TEWKESBURY: Builders' merchants are not green enough for ethical work ware, said Joanna Dale, who runs Ethical Workwear.

STOKE-ON-TRENT: Water efficiency and energy efficiency are the buzz words in the bathroom industry at the moment and Mr and Mrs Consumer are becoming more and more aware of the need to save our precious resources. When they are contemplating refurbishing their bathroom they are looking to install bathroom products which are eco-efficient to try to reduce their ever increasing utility bills.

BANBURY: Processors of tyre-derived rubber materials will have the quality of their products approved by joining a certification scheme that demonstrates their compliance with a new Quality Protocol published today by the Waste Protocols Project – a joint WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) and Environment Agency initiative.