All Sustainability articles – Page 31
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Technical
Welsh group targets Passivhaus window market
A consortium of Welsh joinery firms is making a new high-performance timber window.
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Technical
Simon Conder Associates’ Eastcliff houses
Two houses on the windswept Cornish coast rely on traditional passive solutions
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News
Sadler Brown plants 'solar trees' in Cambridge
Cambridge University Library has installed a series of “solar trees” to help power its archive stores.
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News
Survey predicts a prefabricated future for UK housebuilders
Architects face working on prefabricated housing as the industry shifts to meet Code level 6, according to a survey by estate agent Knight Frank
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News
HCA to fund Peterborough zero-carbon development
The Homes & Communities Agency (HCA) has approved a £7.8 million grant to build 120 affordable zero-carbon homes in Peterborough.
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News
Porritt calls on UK to adopt Passivhaus
Push for German low energy housing system from Green Building Store and new Passivhaus Trust
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News
Wilkinson Eyre centre to go ahead
Wilkinson Eyre has won planning for its £30 million landmark sustainability centre in London’s Royal Victoria Docks.
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News
PRP completes Slough zero-carbon development
PRP Architects has completed one of the country’s largest zero-carbon developments, at Greenwatt Way in Slough, Berkshire.
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News
Prince book renews attack on profession
Prince Charles has renewed his assault on the architecture profession in a new book which argues that sustainable construction is imperilling the world by ignoring the importance of tradition
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Opinion
I’m going to have to let you go
Everything’s getting dumped faster and faster, and that includes good stuff like Broadgate.
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News
Practices vie to create sustainable neighbourhood at Royal Docks
Maccreanor Lavington, Jestico & Whiles, Feilden Clegg Bradley, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and PRP Architects are all in the running to design a new sustainable neighbourhood in east London.
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News
Planners back Glenn Howells' green transformation for water company
Designs by Glenn Howells Architects to turn an office for water company Severn Trent into a green flagship have been approved by local planners.
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Review
A round-up of the latest sustainability products
Products used in sustainability projects include in-roof solar panels and construction panels made from straw and recycled paper.
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Building Study
White Design’s Dartington Primary School
With its individual timber-clad classrooms, Dartington Primary School in Devon by White Design blends into the rural landscape while creating one of the greenest schools in the UK.
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Features
Will government spending cuts help or hinder sustainable design?
While a survey says cuts are not impacting on tackling sustainability, our experts suggest a positive business case and scaled back government projects are needed.
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News
Edward Cullinan’s institute for sustainability research
An institute for sustainability research has to lead by example, and Edward Cullinan Architects’ design for the Thames Gateway Institute for Sustainability is expected to do just that by achieving a Breeam Outstanding rating.
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Review
Recent books on sustainability
RIBA Bookshops’ choice of books this month covers a guide to biodiversity, climate change and the realities of green building.
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Technical
Kentish Town Sports Centre
Max Fordham Engineers has turn Victorian technology to good use in the refurbishment of one of London’s oldest pools.
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Technical
Environmental Resource Centre, Ebbw Vale, Wales
A site that was once Europe’s largest steelworks is reclaimed by nature in Design Research Unit Wales’s innovative scheme.
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News
Reinvent terraces as eco-housing, says report
Save calls for upgrading of homes emptied under Pathfinder scheme