All Sustainability articles – Page 36
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NewsMasdar set to hold two architectural competitions
Sustainable city planned for Abu Dhabi on the look out for green practices to produce designs for zero carbon hotel
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OpinionA green New Deal can tackle depression
Looming financial disaster might have unexpected social and environmental benefits
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Hopkins’ exemplary aim for WWF
Hopkins Architects is to design a UK headquarters for conservation body WWF-UK in Surrey that aims to be an exemplar of sustainable design.
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Welsh Assembly should use architects to cut CO2
The Design Commission for Wales has called on the Welsh Assembly to use architects to help address the country’s carbon reduction and house-building agenda.
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NewsHouses shingled out for praise
Five terraced dwellings in leafy Lambeth benefit from timber treatment
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NewsA computer designed my windows
Mixed use scheme in Kosovo maps and mitigates solar gain throughout the year
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NewsMayne warns Dubai set for ‘ecological disaster’
Pritzker Prize winner blames a lack of control by city’s political class
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NewsFindlay returns with eco-houses scheme
Kathryn Findlay has returned to practice after three years’ sabbatical, with this residential project in Preston, Lancashire.
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TechnicalClaffey House aims for BREEAM 'excellent'
Aedas' zero-carbon design includes rooftop photovoltaic array and ground source heat pump
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FeaturesRIBA and CIBSE to create ‘carbon-conscious practice’ framework through CarbonBuzz
New on-line platform helps architects benchmark and track project energy use from design to operation
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TechnicalThe environmental cost of leaving the lights on
If all UK offices switched their lights off at night the carbon savings could be phenomenal according to recent research. Time to acts writes Henrietta Lynch
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Is it possible to be green in a downturn?
Phil Clark on why sustainable solutions will become more valuable in a straitened economic environment
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NewsHospital art to take patients' minds off the wait
Sustainable waiting room installation in Rome will be powered by solar PVs
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TechnicalModern-day tree house
Fab Tree Hab designed by MIT architects explores the possibility of growing homes from trees
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Office wins top energy rating
Cooper Cromar’s 1,828sq m Solais House has been awarded an energy performance certificate A.
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TechnicalTimber frame lessons from Scotland
Housing expert and writer Mark Brinkley reckons the use of wood north of the border is a lesson on how to properly put up timber frame systems
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Building StudyLeeds eco-apartments with Japanese twist
Tao eco-apartments built using Insulating Concrete Formwork
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NewsSolar power plan to green deserts
Exploration Architecture has announced plans for an innovative scheme combining greenhouses with solar power to provide food, fresh water and energy in desert environments.