All Sustainability articles – Page 114
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Features
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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NewsMPs: Make quick fixes a priority for green offices
Cross-party group recommends simple measures to cut carbon before complex retrofitting of offices
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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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News'Disconnected' eco-towns will fail, says report
Research looks to Europe for increasing the benighted project's luck
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NewsMPs attack government's 'empty rhetoric' in delivering green offices
All-party report offers eight ways Brown could get back on the road
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NewsAtkins helps pedestrians cut across Oxford Circus
Applying Japanese idea for diagonal pedestrian crossings aims to ease central London congestion
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NewsHerbert Girardet on eco-cities video
Watch the presentation given by world-renowned environmental thinker Herbert Girardet at this year's Think08 event on making cities sustainable
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NewsGreen gurus video
Watch the video countdown of the Building Sustainability green gurus list of the industry's top ten eco figures
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NewsWhy the Zero Carbon Hub is new-build sustainability's best hope
The chief executive of the new public-private partnership says industry collaboration will be key
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NewsFoster accused of making 'biggest mistake of his career' in Bulgaria
Black Sea Gardens eco-development criticised by local protestors
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NewsTaskforce to work on zero-carbon target
UK Green Building Council to help develop Code for Sustainable Buildings
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NewsSri Lankan British High Commission boasts eco-cooling technologies
Colombo building uses natural ventilation provided by the construction of high-level chimneys running the full length of each wing
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NewsTurner & Townsend wins green award for Yorkshire Water scheme
Consultant provided a standard method of assessment based on research into the company's carbon footprint
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Jones Lang LaSalle acquires ECD
Real estate firm buys Canadian firm ECD, the original developer of the Green Globes rating system
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NewsCarbon Trust guide helps reduce CO² in non-residential exisiting buildings
John Lewis Partnership uses new guide for best practice low-carbon refurbishment in its Oxford Street building
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NewsCSA cement uses less energy and produces less CO²
BRE research claims Manufacturing calcium sulfoaluminate cement performs better than Portland cement
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NewsBCIS guide supports life cycle costing standard
Guilde to help firms implement sustainability by knowing total investment cost at outset of project
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C-Plan helps local authorities reach green target
Software allows local authorities to assess and reduce the carbon impact of new developments
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Green refurb rules could be worth £6.5bn to industry
FMB says legislation to improve energy efficiency of existing houses could be worth ‘billions a year’
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NewsWinning combinations – Housing Design Awards winners from the past 60 years
To commemorate its Diamond Jubilee, the Housing Design Awards revisited award-winning developments of the past 60 years, looking for those that, in particular, excelled as sustainable buildings. Martin Spring brings you the six winners. Photographs by Tim Crocker