All ºÚ¶´ÉçÇøs articles – Page 88

  • Seventy-five native plant species have been introduced in the BRE gardens
    News

    Take in the view

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Landscaping is set to be the next big thing in sustainable design so Thomas Lane went to BRE’s Innovation Park to see how it should be done

  • Extensive use of prefabrication was employed on the project, including the use of service modules
    Features

    Repeat prescription: St Helens & Knowsley hospitals PFI

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    For the £338m St Helens & Knowsley hospitals PFI, Taylor Woodrow upped the dose of replicated factory-made elements to new levels.

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    Bedzed's baby: Zedfactory housing in Andover

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Green architect Zedfactory has designed a housing development in Andover that takes the Bedzed principles and shows how they can be paid for

  • The 25 × 11m model stretches from Canary Wharf to the Isle of Sheppey in Kent – representing a distance of 75km
    News

    Looking ahead...

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Curious to know how the Thames Gateway will look when it’s all finished? Well if you feel like going to Ashford in Kent, there’s a model already built. And if you don’t, don’t worry, Chloë McCulloch’s already been and she took her camera

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    Pines Calyx - setting the sustainable standard

    2007-11-20T00:33:00Z

    The Pines Calyx in Kent, which won small project of the year in last night's Sustainability Awards, offers a blueprint of environmental best practice, both in sustainable construction techniques, embodied energy and water and waste management. With energy data consumption attached.

  • The Aldo Leopold Center
    News

    Wood takes the LEED

    2007-11-19T12:32:00Z

    Through renewable materials and energy, the Legacy Center in Wisconsin America is the first US project to be judged carbon neutral building by the LEED certification. With full building performance data

  • Features

    A tale of a tile

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    The compressing of clay dust to form a small tablet that can be baked and painted was a Victorian invention that became a Victorian obsession. Stephen Kennett tells us how one modern council set about emulating their achievement

  • Features

    Nature nurtured

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Studio E took two 120-year-old plane trees as the starting point for its west London primary school – and as the inspiration for a whole toy cupboard of sustainable features. The upshot is that these could be the first kids ever to love their greens.

  • Features

    Britain’s new front door

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    St Pancras station is about to become the last vital part in the 186mph link that connects London with the rest of Europe. So just as well that it’s an architectural and engineering triumph, then. Martin Spring looks at how it was achieved

  • The Hawking building
    News

    Big green giants

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    The most hotly contested category in ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø’s Sustainability awards this year is the Large Project of the Year, which considers the sustainability credentials of projects worth more than £2m. Thomas Lane reports on the six shortlisted entries

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    New RIBA book offers string of case studies

    2007-10-15T14:56:00Z

    Sustainable Architecture publication assesses the performance of 45 UK projects that range from housing schemes, schools, offices and refurbishments

  • Westway Beacons at night
    News

    Beyond ground source heat pumps

    2007-10-09T15:00:00Z

    Consulting engineer Fulcrum is trialling the use of an active cooling system from the Continent which it reckons could be part of the answer to the urgent need for renewable energy sources in city centres

  • Sweden’s green utopia
    Features

    Sweden's green utopia

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    This new Stockholm suburb demonstrates how simple, robust, centralised systems can outperform flashy designs bristling with turbines. But can it work as a model for Gordon Brown’s eco-towns?

  • Exterior of the Hive building planned for Manchester
    News

    Sustainable office on a shoestring

    2007-10-04T10:40:00Z

    Web exclusive: Here’s a new office in Manchester that’s making sustainable virtues out of a tight budget. Will Jones reports on the planned Hive building for developer Argent

  • Roof of the Genesis Centre sustainable building in Taunton
    News

    Eco-education

    2007-10-01T11:34:00Z

    The Genesis Centre in Taunton, Somerset, has a messianic mission to spread the word on sustainable materials and techniques.

  • Gordon Brown
    News

    Eco-town winners to be announced by March

    2007-09-28T01:12:00Z

    Sustainability consultants claim six-month timetable for choosing winning bidders for Gordon Brown’s 10 new towns is unrealistic

  • Isis neutron facility
    Features

    Isis neutron facility

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Thomas Lane goes to south Oxfordshire to find out why you need very big tweezers to pick up very small objects …

  • News

    Lend Lease axed from £190m job

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Developer Lend Lease has been removed from a £190m regeneration project in Eastbourne amid fears its appointment could fall foul of competition law.

  • Green Cities design for Bradford competition
    News

    Green Cities scoops Bradford award

    2007-09-27T11:36:00Z

    Architect wins award for modernisation of Victorian housing

  • News

    Breeam dream

    2007-09-25T14:05:00Z

    This office scheme in Leeds is not only the highest-scoring BREEAM building yet but one where green means more commercially viable