Hattie Hartman’s sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products
The AJ has teamed up with Saint-Gobain to record the construction of its Solar Decathalon house, first at the University of Nottingham and now at Ecobuild. At the University of Nottingham students helped construct the prefab components that have now been shipped to London’s Earl’s Court for Ecobuild.
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Cartwright Pickard Architects has teamed with WSP and Tarmac Building Products to develop an integrated design approach to low carbon schools.
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The environmental features of KieranTimberlake’s US Embassy scheme were key to their competition win. Has sustainable architecture come of age? Today I will be interviewing James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran. More soon.
Meanwhile read more about the sustainable aspects of the project below. The schemes of all four finalists are presented in today’s AJ.
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Kizito Musampa and Michel Kreuger, founders of Studio Noach, in collaboration with architect Anne Holtrop, have developed a design for a floating sustainable biotope made from recycled polystyrene.
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TRADA Technology has issued an information sheet entitled: ‘Improving the thermal performance of existing timber frame buildings.’
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Four homes and a business unit being built to PassivHaus standards are currently under construction in Highbury, North London.
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The Watershed, Bristol played host to ‘The road to zero carbon’ conference run by the Ecos Trust and the Devon Sustainable Building Initiative.
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The UK-GBC and the Zero Carbon Hub issued a report on sustainable community infrastructure today.
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One of the more memorable and revealing outings while I was in Abu Dhabi was a visit to the Sheikh Zayed Mosque. When you see the scale of the mosque which was built in ten years, Masdar seems possible.
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Lucy Pedlar, founder of The Green Register’s, has predicted three top trends for green building construction in 2010.
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