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Simply Renewable sponsors Highland Housing Fair
30/06/2008
simply renewable Ltd - proud sponsors of the highland housing fair. Scotland's First Housing Fair 1st to 31st August 2009 Inverness The Highlands of Scotland is staging a major housing fair to showcase the best of house building design and technology - the first of its kind to be held in Scotland. The keynote of the...
Energy Performance revolution in the Outer Hebrides
07/04/2008
To understand the concept behind Greenspace, you don't have to under­stand the technology — which is just as well. Even someone with a fairly advanced understanding of computer systems would be left baffled by a pro­gramme which conducts &...
1st Professional qualification in renewable energy launched
20/03/2008
A Scottish college, Lews Castle College in Stornoway has secured a major coup by winning approval for Scotland's only professional qualification in renewable energy, with hundreds of on-line students from around the country expected to sign up....
UK's first science degree in sustainable construction
15/03/2008
A new science degree in sustainable construction, believed to be the first of its kind in the UK, is due to be launched by the University of the Highlands and Islands in September of this year. ...
Sustainable Construction degree designer joins UBC Group
15/03/2008
Kenneth MacLeod, formerly the subject network leader at Inverness College UHI has joined the the successful Scottish construction and civil enegineering company - the UBC Group, as Managing Surveyor. Welcoming Kenneth  to...
Brown urges EU initiative for green VAT cuts
14/03/2008
 Britain and France on Friday persuaded their EU partners to consider cutting value-added tax (VAT) on environmentally friendly domestic products. Speaking at the end of a two-day (Friday 14th)  European summit in Brussels, Pri...

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