Sustainability Focus – Page 6

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Sustainability: Green hotels

2013-10-10T06:00:00Z

How green is your hotel? Azita Dezfouli and Adam Mactavish of Sweett Group look at the practical steps for reducing the environmental impact of hotels during design, construction and operation
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Deal or no deal?

2013-10-03T06:00:00Z

The Green Deal is in trouble - but what are the alternatives? Building asked some of those at the heart of green policy where they thought the scheme was heading
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Christchurch: Rebooting the city

2013-09-25T06:00:00Z

Arup’s Sensing City project in New Zealand’s Christchurch
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Choosing low-carbon windows

2013-09-04T09:30:00Z

There is more to a low-carbon window choice than whether you opt for double or triple glazing
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Grand Tour: Breakthroughs in sustainability #3

2013-08-15T15:00:00Z

Bournville Village in Birmingham is chosen for the grand tour of sustainble buildings for its basis in community needs
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Grand Tour: Breakthroughs in sustainability #4

2013-08-15T15:00:00Z

A grand tour of the world’s most sustainable buildings leads us to the Co-op HQ in Manchester
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Grand Tour: Breakthroughs in sustainability #5

2013-08-15T15:00:00Z

Why the Visitor Centre at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens deserves a place on the grand tour of sustainable buildings
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Grand Tour: Breakthroughs in sustainability #6

2013-08-15T15:00:00Z

Geoffrey Bawa’s house in Sri Lanka is chosen as the last destination for our grand tour of the world’s most sustainable buildings
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Grand Tour: Breakthroughs in sustainability #2

2013-08-15T07:00:00Z

Industry figures’ grand tour of the world’s most sustainable buildings takes us to Le Hive in Paris
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Grand Tour: Breakthroughs in sustainability #1

2013-08-14T06:00:00Z

Leading industry figures take us on a grand tour of the world’s most sustainable buildings - first stop, the London 2012 velodrome
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Interview: Ed Davey, energy secretary

2013-08-02T00:00:00Z

The energy secretary on the Green Deal, nuclear, and George Osborne’s climate change scepticism
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Government Soft Landings: Strings attached

2013-08-01T06:00:00Z

Government Soft Landings will apply to all central government projects by 2016 - here’s what you need to know
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Building's new home: 240 Blackfriars Road

2013-07-19T00:00:00Z

Great Portland Estates has gone the extra mile to make sure 240 Blackfriars Road will appeal to its demanding occupiers - such as, well, Building Magazine, for example
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Arla's zero-carbon dairy

2013-06-28T00:00:00Z

Arla’s £150m project will be most environmentally friendly dairy in the world. Thomas Lane reports on progress at this unique industrial building
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Sustainability: Resource efficiency

2013-06-27T06:00:00Z

Adam Mactavish and Louise Greenhalgh of Sweett Group look at ways of improving competitiveness and profitability through the efficient use of resources
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How to be a Green Deal assessor

2013-06-21T06:00:00Z

What’s involved in working as a Green Deal assessor, what training is required and what skills are needed? Read on to find out
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Whole-life carbon: Domestic

2013-06-20T06:00:00Z

Lifecycle analysis sheds light on whether retrofitting or rebuilding will best help the government to deliver its 2050 carbon reduction targets
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It's a regulations jungle out there

2013-06-13T06:00:00Z

Can green certification schemes around the world ever be consolidated to avoid all the confusion?
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Sustainable project of the year 2013

2013-04-19T12:29:00Z

Among a truly impressive array of projects that have gone green in a myriad ways, Max Fordham and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ The Hive project in Worcester struck the judges with its holistic environmental approach
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House of straw

2013-04-17T06:00:00Z

An affordable co-ownership scheme made of straw is proving highly energy efficient