Hattie Hartman’s sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products
Northwest Business Environment Awards is calling for entries - newbuild or refurb - for its Built Environment Award 2010.
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Guest blogger Margaret Reynolds of A C Architects Cambridge Ltd
To prove acceptable performance, and to enhance it in your next project, you must get your mind around monitoring and testing results. Mastering design and construction constrained under these terms will, I believe, eventually liberate creative people to find ingenious and elegant design solutions. Anything else is fiddling while Rome burns.
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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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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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Lucy Pedlar, founder of The Green Register’s, has predicted three top trends for green building construction in 2010.
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Portraits of some of the UK’s most recognisable faces will form a photo exhibition to promote a mass consultation on climate change by the London Mayor’s office.
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I was delighted to come across this informative summary of the day by Camden Councillor Alexis Rowell.
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While at the Building Centre, I managed to catch the tail end of RIBA think tank Building Futures’ small exhibition on flooding.
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