All Sustainability articles – Page 32
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NewsRetrofitting is best way to cut carbon emissions, says report
The best way to bring down carbon emissions from the built environment is to embark on a national programme of retrofitting, a major new report argues.
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NewsFootballer's sustainable house delayed
Make’s design for a flower-shaped eco house for Manchester United captain Gary Neville has been delayed.
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TechnicalBRE’s Victorian Terrace Retrofit project
PRP Architects’ refurbished stable block will be used to demonstrate how sustainable building and insulation products can be used for upgrading the UK’s existing housing stock
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TechnicalInsulation solutions for Flimwell workshops by The Architecture Ensemble
Wood fibre and sheep’s wool insulation have been specified for a set of eight sustainable timber workshops that are being constructed in 20ha of ancient woodland in East Sussex.
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TechnicalScotland’s Housing Expo homes previewed
We examine four of the innovative projects under construction for this summer’s long-awaited Housing Expo in Inverness
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TechnicalJohn Christophers’ Zero Carbon House
A home in Birmingham’s Balsall Heath is the first retrofit project to achieve level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes
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OpinionDongtan, icon of our vanishing future
Two years after its ravishing images wowed the media, there is still no sign of an eco-city
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Global warming debate raises tempers
The first in the series of mantownhuman debates, sponsored by BD, got off to a fiery start with a row about climate change, says Austin Williams.
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TechnicalConcrete panels boost thermal mass at Feilden Clegg Bradley’s Woodland Trust HQ
The design team combined the qualities of timber and concrete to maximise this Grantham building’s environmental credentials
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TechnicalWilkinson Eyre’s Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Two sustainably cooled conservatories designed by Wilkinson Eyre and engineer Atelier Ten are part of Singapore’s extensive public gardens project at Marina Bay South
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Home emissions plan welcomed
The RIBA and the UK Green Building Council have welcomed the government’s latest strategy to reduce household energy emissions.
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Schools secretary admits zero carbon target will not be met
The government will miss its target of making every new school building in England zero carbon from 2016, schools secretary Ed Balls admitted today.
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Greenpeace looks for 'fortress' architect
Greenpeace this week launched an architectural competition to help it build an ‘impenetrable fortress’ on land earmarked for the third runway at Heathrow Airport.
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NewsTear down 60s and 70s buildings, says government adviser
The government’s new chief construction adviser has said buildings put up in the sixties and seventies should be torn down because it would be impossible to refurbish them to a sufficient standard laid down by green targets.
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NewsRIBA calls for radical solutions for British coastal cities
British cities near the coast are at risk of extreme flooding with urgent action needed now to protect them, the RIBA and the Institution of Civil Engineers have claimed.
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Carbon cuts for occupied buildings on track
The government believes it will exceed its target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from its occupied buildings.
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Opinion
Tropical storm
One way that architects can (and should) make a significant change on the overall carbon impact of buildings is to eschew tropical hardwoods. Our research has shown that imported tropical hardwoods are the key driver of deforestation in the tropics, which is responsible for 25% of human-caused CO2 emissions
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Opinion‘Sustainability’ is a dangerous mirage
Even in Dubai, the language of greenwash is used to distract us from the real design issues
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Opinion
Consensus cost
It was interesting to read Amanda Baillieu's contribution to the Spectator’s December 4 issue, in which she described the reactions to her recent editorial on global warming (Leader November 6)
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OpinionSeason of humbug and hot air
If we’re really serious about the planet, let’s debate more and buy less