All Sustainability articles – Page 37
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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.
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NewsSustainable hub for 1,600 St Albans students
The structure features ground source heat pumps and an equine centre
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Building StudyThrice-recycled dome will host visitors to science first
Globe will be host to 'world's greatest physics experiment'
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NewsSainsbury call on Stride Treglown for eco-store
Architect strives for bold energy and water reduction targets for newly-opened Dartmouth scheme
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TechnicalSheffield Hallam reveals new energy efficient faculty block
Bond Bryan-designed Furvinal Building powered by ground-source heat pumps and city rubbish
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Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions
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TechnicalEco-refurbishment to pioneer new heat pump technology
Architect Gillard Associates to use Swiss Zehnder low energy system for the first time in the UK on Welsh college
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Carbon emissions in UK housing faces scrutiny
The UK Green Building Council has launched a major study to find ways to reduce carbon emissions from the country’s existing housing stock.
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Tom Russell in eco-village coup
Tom Russell Architects has won a RIBA competition to turn Lawrenny in Pembrokeshire into an eco-village
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TechnicalStudio E’s Woodside Leisure Centre
Cathy Strongman talks to architect Studio E and Max Fordham Consulting Engineers about the sustainable services solutions they choose for Watford’s Woodside Leisure Centre
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NewsDunster’s ZedFactory reveals plans for luxury Bath eco-home
Bill Dunster’s ZedFactory has unveiled plans for a luxury eco-home in an area of outstanding natural beauty outside Bath.
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ReviewXtreme self-build: Scrap Heap Challenge meets Grand Designs
Making a shed-cum-spare room from reclaimed items: get together a team of mates, pop to a woodland to find a few unloved trees, nose around some skips or a disused railway. Bit of edible paint, bit of copper guttering. What could be easier? An intrepid Finsbury Park couple found out ...
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ReviewAn open letter to the Oxford Conference
BDonline green columnists Jon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke step into the debate on architecture, sustainability and education in an open missive to Oxford delegates
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ReviewExhibition imagines London after climate change
As Gordon Brown meets other world leaders at the annual G8 summit in Tokyo, architectural visualiser GMJ has launched an online exhibition to spark public debate about climate change.
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NewsEco-town designs look ‘too commercial’
Designs for a number of the proposed new eco-towns have been criticised as being unambitious, overly commercial and lacking identity in a report by a government advisory panel.
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TechnicalLessons in zero carbon
White Design’s scheme for the UK’s first zero-carbon school at Dartington in Devon
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NewsExperts blast BRE's 'unproven gimmicks'
Research and innovation dropped in favour commercial growth, say critics
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Leeds joins green awards winners
This year’s Ashden sustainable energy awards included Leeds City Council, which has saved around 88,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year through energy efficiency, and Kensa Engineering, for its easy-to-install heat pumps.