All Sustainability articles – Page 30
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NewsJestico & Whiles reveals winning designs for Millennium Village
Final stage of Greenwich Millennium Village set to be built at a “human scale”
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NewsPrince's Foundation plots Indian Poundbury
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has opened its first Indian office, in Mumbai, with the aim of building a new eco-town based on Poundbury and bringing values of “sustainable urbanism” to projects on the sub-continent.
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NewsGovernment edges closer to definition of 'Zero Carbon'
Housing minister Grant Shapps welcomes report and suggests ’offsetting’ will form part of housing solution
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NewsThreat to UK bricks from EU carbon tax
Architects fear a new carbon tax could force the UK brick industry into decline, pushing up costs and forcing them to import the material from elsewhere
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Opinion
The truly green shoots of recovery
As the downturn eases, we have environmental opportunities closer to home than Mexico.
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NewsMorrell’s findings spark more questions
The government has been challenged to explain how it will drive change in the construction industry following Monday’s publication of construction tsar Paul Morrell’s landmark report on the impact of climate change
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NewsRIBA welcomes Morrell report as an 'opportunity' for profession
Portland Place backs findings of government construction tsar as Green Building Council raises questions
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NewsGrasp 40 years worth of green work, construction tsar urges
Paul Morrell’s low carbon report highlights the challenges and rewards of tackling climate change
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NewsPaul Davis beats stiff competition for £8 million Northern Ireland eco development
Paul Davis & Partners has beaten practices including RMJM, B3 and The Boyd Partnership in an £8 million international competition to design a zero-carbon housing development in Northern Ireland.
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FeaturesSheppard Robson helps RICS create free Ska Rating tool
Sheppard Robson has helped develop a free tool to enable architects and interior designers improve and rate sustainability of office fit-out projects, says associate Daniel Winder
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TechnicalWelsh group targets Passivhaus window market
A consortium of Welsh joinery firms is making a new high-performance timber window.
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TechnicalSimon Conder Associates’ Eastcliff houses
Two houses on the windswept Cornish coast rely on traditional passive solutions
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NewsSadler 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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NewsSurvey 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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NewsHCA 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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NewsPorritt 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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NewsWilkinson 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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NewsPRP 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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NewsPrince 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.