Sustainability Focus – Page 15
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FeaturesPRI's energy metering
Energy management and smart metering specialist PRI has developed Carbon View, a system for carbon monitoring, which displays instant and accurate energy-consumption data
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FeaturesBailey’s cream: Strathclyde HQ
When M&E specialist NG Bailey set out to build its new headquarters in Strathclyde, it wanted to show what it could do to a standard spec office. Its control over the project enabled it to bring in a building of the finest green credentials
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FeaturesFlatpack schools: St Agnes primary school, Manchester
No need for wishful thinking: using solid timber panels as a construction material will bring speed and sustainability to the government’s school building programme. Stephen Kennett looks at a down-to-earth solution
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FeaturesBrislington Enterprise College: Light and airy or a prison?
The pupils of Brislington Enterprise College give their verdict on Bristol’s £34m Building Schools for the Future project. Photography by Neill Menneer
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FeaturesCambridgeshire's trash palace
The Fenland pavilion made out of unwanted doors, windows, gates ... and stained glass windows
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FeaturesA mighty wind – the government’s plans for wind farms
The government’s plan to build 3,000 offshore wind turbines with blades the length of football pitches will spark a new multibillion-pound industry – complete with thousands of jobs. Olivia Boyd explains how you can get involved
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FeaturesAquifer thermal storage: DIG! A Dutch method of sorting out energy
M&E A Dutch method of storing all the energy required to heat and cool a building deep underground is coming to the UK. Stephen Kennett finds out how it works
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FeaturesThe alternatives: Cooling and heating
Seasonal heat storeAt Beaufort Court (right), the headquarters for Renewable Energy Systems, environmental engineer Max Fordham created a seasonal heat store. This consists of about 1,000m3 of water held in a 5m deep hole, which tapers from 18m2 at the surface to 8m2 at the base – this shape does ...
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Energy saving lighting sensors
MK Electric has introduced a range of lighting controls, designed to deliver energy savings, for a range of commercial situations
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Heat pumps: GaeaTherm ground-source heat pump
Potterton Commercial has launched the GaeaTherm ground-source heat pump which it says can help reduce the carbon footprint of commercial buildings.
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Solar heating
Baxi has worked with Bellway Homes to comply with a late amendment to planning permission for a site of 286 apartments in Fenney Stratford, Buckinghamshire
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Mixed-mode cooling
Passivent has developed a mixed-mode cooling system to help reduce energy use
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What it costs: Thermal insulation
Insulation is an effective way to help meet Building Regulations targets on carbon emission reduction. Peter Mayer of Building LifePlans examines the effectiveness of different materials
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FeaturesRochester prison reuses materials for new road
Wates uses materials from demolished buildings to construct car park and on-site roads
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FeaturesKøbenhavn cool: Socially sustainable Danish architecture
Danish architecture’s love of light and openness encourages a high level of spatial and social interaction. To mark Architecture Week, Martin Spring looks at four developments that typify the city’s fresh approach to sustainability
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FeaturesOff-site manufacture: Beam me up, Scotty
Erecting a straw-bale school building in three days may sound like a frontier too far, but an innovative off-site manufacturing system using timber panels brought dramatic savings in time. Alex Smith reports
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FeaturesModular straw panels
Architect Martin Penk explains why the straw bale modular system was the right solution for Bosvigo school’s early years facility
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FeaturesThe alternatives: Modular systems
Three more options for fast-track sustainable modular construction
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Off-site low carbon technologies
Kingspan Off-Site has launched a collection of low-carbon technologies originally specified on the Kingspan Lighthouse, the first house to reach level six of the Code for Sustainable Homes.
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FeaturesThe secret square: Bennetts Associates’ New Street Square
It is reached through narrow medieval-style passageways, but could be a blueprint for a sustainable 21st-century City of London