Footprint http://blog.emap.com/footprint Hattie Hartman's sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:34:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Light emitting wallpaper? http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/08/light-emitting-wallpaper/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/08/light-emitting-wallpaper/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:21:20 +0000 sustainability http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=4834 http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/08/light-emitting-wallpaper/feed/ Report from Camden Passivhaus conference http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/05/report-from-camden-passivhaus-conference/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/05/report-from-camden-passivhaus-conference/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:37:14 +0000 Hattie Hartman http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=5189 http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/05/report-from-camden-passivhaus-conference/feed/ More from Bennetts http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/05/update-on-bennetts-new-street-square/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/05/update-on-bennetts-new-street-square/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:20:30 +0000 sustainability http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=5047 David Henderson of Bennetts Associates presented the practice's BREEAM Excellent New Street Square project at the Building Centre last week.]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/05/update-on-bennetts-new-street-square/feed/ UK practices win international landscape award http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/04/uk-practices-win-international-landscape-award/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/04/uk-practices-win-international-landscape-award/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:23:07 +0000 Hattie Hartman http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=5154 5th Studio's Lea River Park and Baca's LiFe Project won silver and bronze awards respectively at the International Urban Landscape Awards last week.]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/04/uk-practices-win-international-landscape-award/feed/ England’s first Passivhaus house http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/03/englands-first-certified-passivhaus/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/03/englands-first-certified-passivhaus/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:52:59 +0000 sustainability http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=5102 A house built beneath a 300-year old derelict barn in the Cotswolds has been certified this week as Passivhaus standard.]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/03/englands-first-certified-passivhaus/feed/ Carbon-positive concrete http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/02/carbon-positive-concrete/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/02/carbon-positive-concrete/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:28:15 +0000 sustainability http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=5080 Last week at Edward Cullinan Architects , RockTron presented its innovative transformation of waste fly ash into carbon-positive RockTron Alpha]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/02/carbon-positive-concrete/feed/ SBID and ‘Retreat, defend, attack’ at the Building Centre http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/01/sbid-and-retreat-defend-attack-at-the-building-centre/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/01/sbid-and-retreat-defend-attack-at-the-building-centre/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:16:24 +0000 sustainability http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=4875 While at the Building Centre, I managed to catch the tail end of RIBA think tank Building Futures’ small exhibition on flooding.]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/02/01/sbid-and-retreat-defend-attack-at-the-building-centre/feed/ Docomomo annual lecture: Rab Bennetts, Bennetts Associates http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/28/docomomo-annual-lecture-december-2009/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/28/docomomo-annual-lecture-december-2009/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:18:03 +0000 sustainability http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=4988

'Continuing Modernism' by Rab Bennetts of Bennetts Associates

]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/28/docomomo-annual-lecture-december-2009/feed/ GreenSpec in AJ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/27/sandy-patience-of-greenspec-in-aj/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/27/sandy-patience-of-greenspec-in-aj/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:03:46 +0000 Hattie Hartman http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=5009 I am delighted to announce that Sandy Patience, architect and editor of online specification tool GreenSpec, will now be writing the popular product features in AJ Sustainability in Practice.]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/27/sandy-patience-of-greenspec-in-aj/feed/ USA on Low Carbon Diet http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/27/usa-on-low-carbon-diet/ http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/27/usa-on-low-carbon-diet/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:29:13 +0000 sustainability http://blog.emap.com/footprint/?p=4935 Social entrepreneur David Gershon has rounded up tens of thousands of US households to take part in Cool Community campaigns in an effort to cut their carbon emissions.]]> http://blog.emap.com/footprint/2010/01/27/usa-on-low-carbon-diet/feed/