Sustainability Focus – Page 5
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Ecobuild Design Zone highlights: Tuesday 4 March
Ecobuild speakers highlight design talks at Ecobuild today
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Ecobuild Retrofit and Refurbishment Zone highlights: Tuesday 4 March
Ecobuild speakers highlight retrofit and refurbishment talks at Ecobuild today
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Ecobuild Water, Waste and Materials Zone highlights: Tuesday 4 March
Water, Waste and Materials content zone highlights at Ecobuild
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50 sustainability stars
In the expanding universe of sustainability, many stars shine out in the firmament. Building celebrates the sector’s top 50 brightest talents
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Ecobuild 2014 programme: Into the zone
Here’s your visitors’ guide to the content zones and speakers at Ecobuild, along with some highlights of the talks to come
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Custom build: Give us the tools
Once trumpeted as a way of raising housing output by as many as 50,000 homes a year, custom build was responsible for barely a fifth of that figure last year. So what’s the hold-up and can anything be done to reinvigorate the market?
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Ecobuild 2014 preview: Now you’re talking…
The pressures on today’s environment are many and Ecobuild is the stimulating forum in which to explore, exchange and debate the possible solutions. Ike Ijeh picks out some of the key themes at this year’s event
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Ecobuild products: Tour the stands
Manufacturers are being challenged to develop a range of products that meet the more stringent demands of today’s built environment. Happily, they seem to be more than up to it, as these companies, exhibiting at Ecobuild, demonstrate
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Building Sweden's New Karolinska Solna hospital
Sweden’s first ever PPP project is a £1.3bn hospital that is also Europe’s greenest
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Sustainability: Zero carbon costs
The cost to housebuilders of meeting the Zero Carbon Standard for new homes continues to fall. Here, Adam Mactavish of Sweett Group and Nicola O’Connor of Zero Carbon Hub present the key findings of the Zero Carbon Hub’s recent cost analysis of the proposed standard
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A case for biodiversity offsetting?
Biodiversity offsetting is the government’s answer to the conundrum of how to speed up development while safeguarding the country’s woodland and other environmental habitats. The idea has come under fire from all sides - but also enjoyed some unexpected support
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Green Deal: One year on
The Green Deal is one year old this week but the celebrations are, to put it mildly, subdued. We look back on a year of disappointments for the energy efficiency retrofit market
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Center Parcs: The place beyond the pines
Center Parcs’ £250m resort will cater for 4,000 visitors in a forest in the green belt just outside Milton Keynes. So how do you build a self-sufficient small town in the middle of a wood? And get permission to do it?
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Energy efficient products
Keep the Building Regulations people happy with our choice of the latest building products on the market, from energy efficient wall and loft insulation to low powered ventilation fans
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PwC's London office: Highest BREEAM-rated building ever
When PwC decided to refurbish its unloved central London office, it thought it would be doing well to achieve a BREEAM “excellent” rating. Then it realised it could do rather better than that …
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Top sustainable housebuilders: NextGeneration Initiative
The latest league table from the NextGeneration Initiative reveals mixed results for housebuilders on their sustainability targets this year
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WWF HQ: 'Stringent is an understatement'
At the World Wildlife Fund’s new HQ in Surrey, Willmott Dixon has taken sustainable construction to new levels of rigour, forensically tracking the carbon content of every single element, and even building an FSC-certified workshop on site. So has the result been worth it?
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Fuel wars: Review of green charges
The prime minister surprised everyone last week when he announced his desire to ‘roll back’ green charges on energy bills. So where does this leave the government’s energy efficiency policies?
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'The Treasury still have a completely outdated view of sustainability'
How should the government kick-start its stuttering sustainability policy? Building, Ecobuild and the UKGBC held three roundtables at three party conferences - and three common themes emerged
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Sustainable housing products
We appraise the best products for building energy-efficient homes, from insulated steel lintels to external wall insulation that’s fit for seaside locations