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Autodesk has developed what it says is a more rigorous methodology for corporate greenhouse-gas (GHG) target setting. Autodesk developed the Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-Stabilising Targets (C-FACT) to align its own GHG reduction targets with global scientific and policy climate-stabilisation targets. According to the company, C-FACT is more science driven, business friendly and transparent than current methodologies. In measuring its GHG emissions, Autodesk aims to take responsibility for direct emissions and a range of indirect emissions, including business travel, leased facilities, employee commuting, major conferences and data-centre vendors. Autodesk is challenging other companies to reduce their GHGs in line with scientific and policy climate stabilisation targets of 85 per cent by 2050. Autodesk's C-FACT introduces mathematical principles said to allow it to be proportional, replicable and verifiable. The company says that it is compatible with generally accep...

Roofmate LG-A Supports Code And BREEAM Targets Roofers looking for easy wins when it comes to energy efficiency have a new insulation product to turn to Roofmate LG-A from Dow Building Solutions. New parapet insulation extends choice for roofers. The Styrofoam product is ideally suited to parapet insulation, and comes with a 10mm modified concrete topping to minimise cost and installation time. It also complements the increasingly popular Roofmate SL-A insulation boards, designed for inverted warm roofs. Dow's A-foam range uses recycled CO2 as a blowing agent, resulting in a Global Warning Potential (GWP) of less than five - new Roofmate LG-A qualifies for Code for Sustainable Homes and BREEAM insulation specification credits. "Providing Roofmate LG in our environmentally-advanced A-foam format combines the proven benefits of the inverted roof system with an insulation product for parapets that's better for the environment," explained Richard Powell, UK Roofing M...

Wire Processing Kit Targets Railway Sector The new Nova range of wire processing equipment has been designed especially for the manufacture of wire harnesses for the locomotive and rolling stock industry. Wire processing specialist Spectrum Technologies is set to make a major move into the locomotive and rolling stock (LRS) sector. Using the InnoTrans 2008 show in Berlin as a platform the company will be introducing its new Nova range of wire processing equipment designed especially for the manufacture of wire harnesses for the locomotive and rolling stock industry. Nova is a modular range of wire processing products based on Spectrum's successful new Nova platform recently introduced to the aerospace industry. Nova wire processing systems incorporate ink jet or laser technology, as required, for direct wire marking and identification in place of expensive heat shrink sleeve marking systems. These marking technologies are embodied in a range of wire mark, measure and cut systems th...