Buildings

Buildings as power stations

By and 2015-02-06T06:00:00

SPECIFIC’s first ‘Building as a power station’ prototype

Scientists are working hard to make the built environment principally reliant on renewable energy. But, as Ike Ijeh finds out, with only 10% of their ideas leading to commercial application, a Swansea-based innovation centre aims to turn theory into practice

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