All articles by Will Jones – Page 2
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NewsThe DIY sustainable home
What happens when an engineer decides to build his new family home? Will Jones reports on Gifford director Richard Quincey's house, built two years ago, including an assessment of the performence of the solar systems he installed
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NewsPost Occupation Evaluation for beginners
Here's some handy tips on how to justify, plan and carry out a POE, based on a new guide released by the British Council for Offices
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NewsCarbon cutting church
A Church in Kent has embraced creative solutions for cutting its emissions. The scheme shows how changes can be made to a listed building while retaining its original features
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NewsPines Calyx - setting the sustainable standard
The Pines Calyx in Kent, which won small project of the year in last night's Sustainability Awards, offers a blueprint of environmental best practice, both in sustainable construction techniques, embodied energy and water and waste management. With energy data consumption attached.
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NewsWood takes the LEED
Through renewable materials and energy, the Legacy Center in Wisconsin America is the first US project to be judged carbon neutral building by the LEED certification. With full building performance data
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NewsSustainable office on a shoestring
Web exclusive: Here’s a new office in Manchester that’s making sustainable virtues out of a tight budget. Will Jones reports on the planned Hive building for developer Argent
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NewsNottingham students build eco home
Midlands university students create C60 house with super insultation and efficient ventilation
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NewsGovernment responds to zero carbon home definition confusion
DCLG issues detailed guidance on zero carbon as part of Code for Sustainable Homes programme
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NewsBoard shake-up at Mott MacDonald
Wickens made chairman to replace Mike Blackburn and three new board directors appointed at consultancy group
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NewsSevern Barrage given cautious backing
Sustainable Development Commission report finds that tidal scheme could generate 4.4% of Uk electricity supply
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NewsNational Trust HQ reviewed
Web exclusive: Air-conditioning is dead, long live cardigan culture. How the team behind the new headquarters for the National Trust persuaded the building users to acclimatize to varying temperatures. Plus full post-occupation data
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NewsThe Wessex way
Web exclusive: Will Jones returns to landmark sustainable building the Wessex Water operations centre near Bath and reveals the full post occupation data on the scheme
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Features‘We went from greenfield to selling hamburgers in 48 hours’
In the 1980s Richard Ogden played a key role in trailblazing the use of off-site construction for a certain fast-food chain. Now he’s the first chairman of Buildoffsite, connecting burgeoning demand for new construction techniques with supply.
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New energy
Mention renewable energy and many in industry think you’re talking about a worthy project that the nanny state wants us to carry out but that doesn’t really make commercial sense. Will Jones finds out if there’s any truth in that
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FeaturesIt's just, like, so L.A
A brick housing and commercial scheme in Fulham, west London, is evoking California with its multicoloured, polka-dotted facade and crazy shapes. We explain how architect CZWG is showing us the way to go west
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FeaturesTower records
It took just 15 years to create this commercial district and fill it with stunning architecture. Here are the contractors and consultants who built Manhattan-on-Thames, and a few answers to the question: 'What's your favourite building at Canary Wharf?'
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Features
Next in line
Canary Wharf just keeps growing. The latest piece in the jigsaw is Heron Quays – home to even more high-quality offices, retail and green space
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FeaturesA woman's place …
This library in the City of London, winner of the best public building award, is Britain's main academic resource for those researching women's experiences. It is also a demonstration of the power and subtlety that brick can offer a sensitive architect
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