All BD Sustainability articles – Page 2
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TechnicalPoplar Baths by Pringle Richards Sharratt
Poplar Baths in London’s East End is a historic example of state architecture used to improve public health. But to preserve this listed building, the project team had to demolish part of it and rebuild through a PPP agreement
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TechnicalGoede Doelen Loterijen by Benthem Crouwel Architects
Once completed, the new home of the biggest lottery charity in the Netherlands will be the first refurbished office building in Amsterdam to achieve a BREEAM Outstanding
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TechnicalWellbeing registration: Europe's first project
There is now an international standard for measuring how a building impacts on its users’ health and wellbeing. Ike Ijeh looks at how Studio Ben Allen Architects’ One Carter Lane became the first European project to receive the accreditation
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NewsEcobuild challenges industry to redefine sustainability
The Ecobuild team launches its #SustainabilityIs campaign focusing on the business case for sustainable construction
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NewsEcobuild launches with sustainability roundtables
First discussion will be chaired by UK-GBC chief executive Julie Hirigoyen this month
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NewsLords reopen the door to zero carbon homes
Industry ‘hopeful’ that peers’ rebellion could put sustainable homes back on statute books
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OpinionWhatever the politicians decide in Paris, industry's resolve must not falter
Construction accounts for half of global energy and water consumption - but is also best-placed to make the economic case for sound environmental practices, says Clare Bowman
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OpinionIf the Stirling Prize was about sustainability, who would win?
Ahead of next week’s ceremony, Simon Sturgis takes a critical look at the carbon performance of the six finalists
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OpinionFlood-proof? Designing against the tide
Our attitude to rising sea levels remains as defensive as ever. With 20% of British homes now at risk, this is a mistake, says Robert Barker
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NewsShortlisted designs for Pimlico bridge go on show
Amanda Levete, Hopkins, Marks Barfield, Bystrup and Robin Snell hope for public backing
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NewsArchitects criticise government's zero carbon u-turn
Rab Bennetts and Jim Eyre among signatories of industry’s letter to chancellor
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TechnicalEnterprise Centre, University of East Anglia by Architype
The £11.6m Enterprise Centre in Norfolk is one of the most innovative green buildings in the UK. But for its prefabricated cladding, it relies on the region’s most traditional building method
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NewsList BedZed warts and all, says C20 Society
But RMC HQ architect Ted Cullinan says listing should be based on quality of architecture only
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NewsRegulate foreign property investment, says leading architect
‘Legislation is only solution,’ Alison Brooks adds
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NewsEco-supermarket should be replaced by building of equal merit, says developer
Planners urged to take tough line over pioneering buildings
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NewsHouse builders putting up rubbish, says Hemingway
‘They took notice of Cabe because they had to,’ adds design guru
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TechnicalCan tall buildings ever be sustainable?
With debate still raging over the 230 towers lined up to make the London skyline look more like Hong Kong’s, Ike Ijeh looks at whether tall buildings can ever be sustainable
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TechnicalBuildings as power stations
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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Building StudyRecyclable housing
Technology used to build the world’s largest McDonald’s is being adapted to build temporary, highly flexible, 100% recyclable housing in Holland. Could the model be brought here to solve the UK’s affordable housing crisis?
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NewsRichard Rogers backs Heatherwick's garden bridge
£150m Thames crossing would ‘enrich’ London, says architect
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