All Sustainability articles – Page 37
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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.
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NewsArchitects to take lead in zero-carbon schools drive
Leading architects Robin Nicholson, Peter Clegg and Irena Bauman are to sit on a government panel helping to ensure that all new schools are zero carbon by 2016
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Building StudyCurve your enthusiasm at Page & Park’s Loch Lomond National Park HQ
Dry stone walls and timber have been combined to stunning effect in a sustainable structure. Photos by Renzo Mazzolini
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TechnicalTackling the sustainability of our existing building stock is the next step
Reducing carbon emissions of the existing homes will make a real difference, and architects need to be in on the act
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NewsBarnstorming farm plan
Forge Architects has beaten firms including Alan Camp Architects, Pitman Tozer and Anglo-German outfit 51.5° in a contest to create a building for an urban farm.
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FeaturesArchitect Mark Hewitt and Icax develop interseasonal heat transfer, a sustainable heating and cooling system
Icax’s sustainable heating system is to be tested at Lancashire’s HM Prison Garth
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NewsEnvironmental centre planned for former lime quarry
Halliday Clark Architects’ scheme to build an environmental centre in a disused quarry has been submitted to Yorkshire Dales National Park for detailed planning.
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NewsIslington academy goes green
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects is to design a new academy and a special needs school for the London Borough of Islington.
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NewsSchools strike back at call to change curriculum
Sustainability shouldn’t be the only challenge for architecture schools, say educators
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AnalysisQuestioning the Oxford agenda
Heads of four architecture schools respond to to last week’s setting-out of the issues for next month’s Oxford Conference, and argue that sustainability is not the only game in town
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OpinionAre developers ignoring the threat of climate change?
Of course they are, says Cabe campaigns director Matt Bell, but Andrew Teacher from the British Property Federation sees a rapidly growing commitment to sustainable design
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AnalysisArchitectural education: the 1958 Oxford Conference revisited
Architecture schools must meet the challenge of sustainability if they are to survive, delegates at July’s Oxford Conference will hear. This week, four leading figures — Susan Roaf, Christopher Alexander, Rab Bennetts and Steven Parissien — say why change is needed. Next week, the schools respond
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NewsVery jolly green giants
A college building designed by RMJM for construction students learning about environmental best practice has won an award for sustainable design at this year’s Scottish Design Awards.
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AnalysisWhy Gordon Brown and green don’t mix
The prime minister had high hopes for eco-towns, but Richard Rogers and others say the towns aren’t sustainable at all