The Land Quality Management (LQM) division of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) have released the 2nd edition of their General Assessment Criteria (GAC's) for human health risk assessment. The document sees the revision...
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GeoCon attended the Ground Source Heat Pump Associations annual conference on Monday 22nd June 2009. The conference was centred around "making heat pumps the technology of choice" and was aimed at implementing the policy framework...
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The East Midlands Development Agency and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) have announced that work at the former Avenue Coking Works will start on site in August 2009.` The site, a former coking works...
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Recent research showed that UK environmental consultancies grew by 9% in 2008 with a turnover of around £1.46bn. a high proportion of this revenue was created from projects planned within the first half of the...
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The Environment Agency (EA) have released new Soil Guideline Values (SGV's) for benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes (BTEX), mercury and selenium. Further SGV's are anticipated being released later on this year. In addition the EA have...
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Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP) are a more environmentally friendly alternative to a conventional gas or oil powered boiler. The heat pump works by sourcing heat from a source with a constant temperature such as...
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Geothermal boreholes are drilled via geothermal drilling techinques and are drilled to depths typically around 100m below ground level. Ground loops are then installed in the boreholes and seal with thermal enhanced bentonite gout.
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The Bank of England reduce the base rate further in December 2008 by a full per cent, and again in January 2009 by another half per cent bringing the base rate down to 1.5%. With...
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The Bank of England have reduced the base rate by 1.5%, in November additional to the 0.5% decrease in October bringing the base rate down to 3.0%. (more…)
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With the UK recession hitting hard in the construction industry, hundreds of companies within the construction industry are folding and hundreds more are laying off staff. (more…)
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