Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has been awarded two schools contracts valued at £14.3 million within the Hertfordshire Building Schools for the Future programme. They are both joint ventures. One is the £5.6 million Nobel sample scheme in Stevenage with Mansell Construction. The other is the £8.7 million Marriotts Lonsdale scheme (pictured) with Balfour Beatty Construction and also in Stevenage.
More refrigerant bans possible, says government
The government could tighten up the rules that restrict the use of global warming refrigerant gases including speeding up phase-out programmes and introducing new bans, according to a spokesman from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
Baxi research suggests schools strongly support heat decarbonisation
A survey conducted by Baxi of 200 state school estates managers, consultant engineers and M&E contractors has found that while enthusiasm for Net Zero and support for low carbon heating systems in schools is thriving, persistent barriers remain.
