See the attached flyer for info. We go to Buile Hill for the fireworks every bonfire night (after a half hour walk from where we have to park the car). It will certainly be a bit warmer on the 1st of August! Pop along and support this very deserving organisation. http://tinyurl.com/7wauyu8
Manchester Airports Group has asked CBRE to find a funding and development partner for the delivery of its £650m Airport City. http://tinyurl.com/bpgwmyb
Skyscape Cloud Services Limited has announced that it has joined the growing list of businesses who have signed up to the UK Government’s EProcurement Pledge. The Pledge itself, together with details of the current list of signatories can be found via this link: http://tinyurl.com/bo6uwxf
The Select Committee’s report does not come down either way (preferring to wait and see what Government says in its Impact Assessment) but it does pose some (rhetorical?) questions. http://tinyurl.com/7gl3ma7
ClientEarth is lobbying the Commission to institute proceedings against the UK (in the guise of DEFRA) for failing to meet is air pollution level obligations. There is no room for complacency here – on 29 March 2012 the Commission successfully obtained a declaration against Sweden (Case C-607/10, 2012/C 151/14) concerning its breach of pollution prevention…
What began as a complaint by Rapiscan (one of the unsuccessful bidders) has all the hallmarks of escalating into a fight between the US and Canada with Smiths Detection, the UK based successful bidder, caught in the middle. http://tinyurl.com/c2hmtqa
Jose Manuel Barroso has heralded proposals for a “roadmap” and a “calendar” towards greater integration across the EU to be presented at the forthcoming Summit on 28/29 June. http://tinyurl.com/83u9p92
This report by Deloitte demonstrates, amongst other things, how Life Cycle Assessment can be employed to identify the environmental impact of products across their planned operational life. Businesses are becoming increasingly aware that data generated incidentally to the pricing aspects of life cycle assessments can have other highly relevant applications; environmental impact is one of…
This was, perhaps, inevitable given the growing profile of this area of IT development and chimes with the launch of Cloud2 in the UK. She says: “Cloud Computing is one of the welcome developments sprouting from an ever-growing Internet. However, it also raises some issues for citizens and businesses. To take full advantage of the…
The Government has announced a further wave of 15 University Technical College projects. All of the new schemes are expected to be procured through the Academies Framework. http://tinyurl.com/cj8f73m
