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AHEC ticks the legal and sustainable boxes
The key conclusions of an independent study into the legality and sustainability of American hardwoods are highlighted by AHEC (American Hardwood Export Council) at Ecobuild on a stand that focuses on the development of sustainable hardwood solutions for both interior and exterior applications.
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Wood trade focus shifts from certification to risk assessment
With greater understanding of the challenges of achieving forest certification in certain regions and growing pressure on importing companies to eradicate illegal wood from supply chains, risk assessment has become a key tool for the timber industry. Now there are indications that risk assessment could become a mandatory legal requirement ...
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American Hardwoods explode the myths surrounding sustainable forest management
Sustainable forest management is frequently misunderstood. A common myth surrounding the concept is that “softwoods are more sustainable than hardwoods”.
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American Tulipwood in fashion in Milan at the 2009 Salone Internazionale del Mobile
The progression of the American hardwood species tulipwood from a functional role to the timber of choice for high profile design projects took another step forward at the unveiling of the Established & Sons new furniture collection in Milan.
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Building StudyHow it all stacks up for O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Timberyard
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Timberyard development hits upon a remarkable urban housing typology that goes some way to redress Dublin’s use of an ill-considered planning formula
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TechnicalZed Factory’s Pipe Dream and Cox Bulleid’s Prototype Green Terrace
Two timely projects tackle the critical issues of how best to build sustainable housing — and how to cut its cost
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TechnicalNick Baker Architects’ Fallow Court housing
Nick Baker Architects’ part-buried Fallow Court in north London scheme could point the way to a new form of sustainable urban housing
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Building StudySergison Bates approach to the cul-de-sac culture in Canning Town
Sergison Bates’ regeneration of Canning Town’s Crediton Road certainly provides solid housing that complements its surroundings, but the home zone concept of open, easily accessible areas has got lost along the way due to fears of misuse
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Building StudyLandroom's RSPB complex
Landroom’s complex of buildings including a bird hide for the RSPB’s Rainham Marsh site in east London makes a novel use of old shipping containers
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TechnicalThe Eon house and the architecture of climate change
The half a semi-detached house built to 1930s Building Regs and monitored for energy efficiency at the University of Nottingham is an architectural experiment that could benefit millions of British homes
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Building StudyMalcolm Fraser Architects breaks for the border
Malcolm Fraser Architects has honed its reputation in Edinburgh, but how has its approach translated to creating Work Space, a business incubation centre in Berwick-upon-Tweed?
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TechnicalFoster & Partners’ Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre
Foster & Partners is working on its latest project, the Khan Shatyr, in the unforgiving climate of Astana, Kazakhstan’s capital
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TechnicalAdam Khan Architects broadens its outlook
Adam Khan Architects has extended and refurbished the New Horizon Youth Centre for homeless young adults near London’s Euston Station
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Building StudyNottingham: A notty problem
Nottingham hopes to be ‘2012 world design capital’ but the varying quality of its newer buildings exemplifies the problems of what to do with a post-industrial city
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Building StudyGeurst & Schulze's act of mediation at Le Medi
Geurst & Schulze’s Le Medi housing estate in Rotterdam fits comfortably with a career spent celebrating diverse architectural sources
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Building StudyParallel lives at the Whitechapel Gallery
The expansion and refurbishment of east London’s Whitechapel Gallery by Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem, working with Witherford Watson Mann, burnishes the city’s art scene
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TechnicalGreen towns still stuck on red
The government’s eco-towns initiative may be ailing, but it has highlighted sustainable ideas such as interseasonal heat storage and biomass CHP, here explored for two proposed developments in the south of England
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TechnicalAquifer thermal energy storage for London’s museum quarter
A radical programme to reduce CO2 emissions, developed by Fulcrum Consulting and the Natural History Museum, has been proposed for London’s museum heartland
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Building StudyStephen Taylor Architects’ cottage industry
With the help of a far-sighted developer, Stephen Taylor Architects has revived the cottage as a housing type
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TechnicalMorphosis Architects’ cooling runnings at the Federal Building in San Francisco
Morphosis Architects’ US Federal Building in San Francisco uses concrete’s thermal mass and natural ventilation