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Passivhaus diaries
Passivhaus diaries, part 18: First airtightness test results
25 January, 2010
The waiting is over, the experts from Leeds Metropolitan Univeristy have tested Denby Dale for airtightness and this is what they found...
Codes and regulations
Stride Treglown office awarded BREEAM Outstanding at design stage
23 October, 2009
Architect's new Cardiff office will use a biomass boiler, grey-water recycling and a natural ventilation approach
Complying with Part L: A question of cuts
07 August 2009
L is for … Some building types need to shave their carbon emissions a lot. Others, less so. Yet the regulations say they all have to improve by 25%. The last in our series on Part L examines a proposal to fix this anomaly
Sustainability costs
Sustainability: The future of offices
16 October 2009
We’re going to have to make some important changes in the way we use offices in the future. Here Cyril Sweett director Hugh Mulcahey looks at what the options are – and which is better
Sustainability: Water efficiency
26 June 2009
Does making an investment in water efficiency measures ever pay back? Isabel McAllister and David Sutton of Cyril Sweett present the business case
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Sustainability: Zero-carbon homes
17 April 2009
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What it costs: Pervious paving
Specifier 5 December 2008
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Sustainability costs: Refurbishment
16 January 2009
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Green construction not as expensive
21 November, 2008
Existing stock
Green Register launches training for sustainable refurbishment
16 June, 2009
RIBA teams up with the Green Register to run workshops on effective and green housing refurbishment
UK GBC examines new funding plan for home improvements
26 May, 2009
Green group has launched task group to report on practical steps for introduction ‘pay as you save’ mechanism
Case studies
Imagine the world in 2020: climate change
13 November 2009
The year’s 2020, and, having left Building for reasons far too shocking to go into here, former assistant editor Thomas Lane talks us through a day in his life as an engineer in a world that’s slowly coming to terms with climate change …
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A world awaits us: The Copenhagen conference building boom
13 November 2009
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Taming the beast: Winchester’s green office refurb
11 September 2009
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Meet the government's new best friends: Victorian refurb
The Regs Files 2009
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Will it ever take off? Hydrogen fuel cell technology
17 April 2009
Waste management / recycling
Interserve named on £60m sewage plant contract
13 August, 2009
FM firm is preferred bidder to build plant to generate biogas from sewage, as well as upgrading existing facilities
New plant will make roof tiles from nappies
30 July, 2009
Birmingham recycling plant will turn plastic element of sanitary waste into building products
Ecobuild
Eight stand-out innovations at Ecobuild
5 March, 2009
From Bill Dunster's boat-inspired LandArk to a hemp-insulated batt, there was plenty of innovation on display at Ecobuild
PRP wins landscape competition for BRE's Innnovation Park
4 March, 2009
The winning schcme by PRP Landscape is an extension of the existing landscaping designed by McFarlane Wilder
Sustainability Now
Sustainability Now: Copenhagen and beyond
11 November, 2009
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Escos: One of our team is missing
26 June 2009
Whatever happened to energy service companies, responsible for on-site renewables? Their near-disappearance is bad news for low-carbon development
