Hattie Hartman’s sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products
The RIBA no longer has a special category for sustainability as part of the annual awards. It believes, rightly, that all buildings worthy of an award should meet this criteria. However, some do so more than others.
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Last week’s ‘Schools: Meeting the Brief with Wood,’ a seminar at the Building Centre in London, looked at the pros and cons of using timber for school construction in the UK.
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What many people found distasteful at this event was the flippancy with which the subject was treated, the easy laughs and irresponsible nature of the delivery.
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Northwest Business Environment Awards is calling for entries - newbuild or refurb - for its Built Environment Award 2010.
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7 More London Riverside is the third building in the UK and the first office in England to achieve the BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ award.
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The development is intended to create 35,000 jobs, mainly focused on green industries and new energy technologies.
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I met Richard Buckingham today who joined BDP from Arup eight months ago to head up sustainability. I was surprised to learn that he is neither an architect nor an engineer. He is a social scientist and believes that if we are going to progress the sustainability agenda, it’s behavior that has to change. ‘We [...]
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I have written repeatedly in the AJ about CarbonBuzz, the RIBA/CIBSE online platform for energy monitoring of buildings which enables architects and engineers to compare new projects against established benchmarks for operational energy use. As part of its next phase, the CarbonBuzz team has developed a brief questionnaire to get feedback for improving the tool. [...]
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