All Sustainability Design articles
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FeaturesHow do we protect our homes from surface water flooding?
More than three million homes are at risk from surface water flooding - how can we mitigate the risk?
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CommentWe now have no excuse for failing to build more sustainable buildings
Making the right material choices, getting the landscaping right, improving green specifications… There are so many ways for developers and contractors to achieve high-performance buildings
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NewsDeveloper gets green light for zero carbon Tower Bridge office
Fore behind revamp of 1990s building
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CommentSustainable building on the green belt
A small mention in the housing white paper offered a tantalising opportunity to rejuvenate the natural environment in the green belt
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CommentFive steps to detoxifying your office
Toxic workplaces risk employee wellbeing, so here’s how to rethink your work environment
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CommentLondon's zero carbon rules overlook embodied carbon
The London Plan is a step in the right direction but focusing only on operational carbon is a mistake
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CommentWhat can London learn from New York's skyscrapers?
The Big Apple’s ‘trophy’ towers are able to secure premium rents, but the situation may be more complicated in London
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FeaturesLet's love industrial estates
The changing nature of manufacturing and enterprise means we need to unlock many sites in our cities, integrating industrial estates with surrounding neighbourhoods
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CommentDesigning offices for millennials
The changing criteria for office design to attract and retain millennials
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FeaturesSustainable sailor: Land Rover BAR
The Land Rover BAR sailing team have embedded sustainability into not just its new base building but also its core ethos
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CommentThe WELL building standard is changing how we design
Truly embedding wellbeing into our buildings may be new to the UK but it will become second nature soon
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Willmott Dixon uni job wins Passivhaus accreditation
Leicester University’s Centre for Medicine biggest non-resi building to get mark
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CommentTime for a change
Harry Rich was unable to drive the necessary reform at RIBA, his departure is an opportunity
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CommentHow green is high-rise?
Might the most sustainable skyscraper not be a skyscraper at all? Philip Steadman of UCL asks how green is high-rise based on his new essay with Create Streets
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FeaturesWellness: The ups and downs
Now that employers have cottoned on to the link between wellbeing and improved productivity, pressure is growing for clients to start taking the concept seriously
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NewsTwo-thirds of housing providers hit by overheating problems
Zero Carbon Hub report says overheating can harm reputation but is not seen as a priority by housebuilders
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CommentWhen buildings perform as designed
Detailed evaluations of the performance of buildings are essential if we are to improve their design and operation in the future
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CommentIntelligent cities defined
The recent BCO conference in Chicago offered a vision of the future: intelligent cities filled with data, where people and things are constantly connected to the digital world. The opportunity for the industry is now to make sense of it all
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NewsGovernment urged to use pollution eating tiles
The new government has been urged to use pollution-eating products to cut air pollution