All Posts Tagged With: "Bedfordshire"

Sustainable construction techniques and how to administer buildings sustainably are set to be taught at Bedford College.Argon Housing, a Bedfordshire social housing provider, has helped develop a pair of two-year qualifications that will teach skills needed for and by the construction industry.The foundation degrees in Sustainable Construction and Building Services & Sustainability, will include vocational [...]

A satellite navigation system that can help drivers cut down their fuel expenditure and carbon emissions has been developed by Bedfordshire’s Cranfield School of Management.The VREAM is a vehicle routing device designed by Dr Andrew Palmer of the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain management at the campus.Using a digitised model of road networks and [...]

A recycling brand dreamt up by Bedfordshire County Council is celebrating its tenth birthday. The "Recycle Now!" brand is recognised by up to 93 per cent of the population of the UK and is more recognisable than the likes of Fairtrade, a TNS Omnimas report said. Mark Burley, managing director of Waterhouse Design who created [...]

Supermarkets in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire are sending their waste food to an anaerobic digestion plant as part of a trial.Biodegradable waste from five Waitrose branches is collected by recycling firm Cawleys and taken to Biogen’s anaerobic digestion plant in Bedford.In the plant, the waste, which can include paper plates and biodegradable products as well [...]