All Sustainability articles – Page 31
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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
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News
Retrofitting 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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News
Footballer'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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Technical
BRE’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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Technical
Insulation 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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Technical
Scotland’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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Technical
John 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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Opinion
Dongtan, 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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News
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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Technical
Concrete 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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Technical
Wilkinson 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