Ecobuild roundup

Posted on March 10th, 2010 by Hattie Hartman

It’s good to see the occasional manufacturer commissioning quality design.

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Fosters’ 7 More London achieves BREEAM ‘Outstanding’

Posted on January 14th, 2010 by sustainability

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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Common carbon language

Posted on November 16th, 2009 by sustainability

Friday’s announcement that the world’s leading green building organisations -which includes those under the umbrella of the World Green Building Council and BREEAM - have reached an agreement to use a common metric to compare the carbon footprint of buildings is welcome news.

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BREEAM Outstanding for Stride Treglown’s Cardiff office

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by sustainability

A new office building in Cardiff by Stride Treglown has been awarded the UK’s highest BREEAM Outstanding award

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Another green primary school

Posted on October 1st, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

Studio E's Berger Primary School, Hackney
Just when I had filed the last copy and pictures for my recent feature on primary schools, an email about this Studio E project in Hackney, East London dropped into my mailbox.

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BREEAM Communities launched

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

BREEAM Communities, a new member of the BREEAM suite of environmental assessment ratings, was launched yesterday after piloting across 9 UK regions.
BREEAM Communities builds on the existing Regional Sustainability Checklists already familiar to many developers and assesses projects across eight categories:

Climate change and energy - flooding, heat island, water effciency, sustainable energy, site infrastructure
Community - promoting community networks [...]

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First EU building to achieve BREEAM excellent

Posted on May 26th, 2009 by sustainability

The European Investment Bank headquarters in Luxembourg has received a BREEAM Excellent rating

The European Investment Bank’s Luxembourg Headquarters is the first building in mainland Europe to be assessed and certified under the post construction review process.
AECOM (formerly Faber Maunsell) conducted the assessment and the Excellent rating shows an improvement on the ‘Very Good’ the design [...]

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Green retail - continued

Posted on May 1st, 2009 by sustainability

Continuing the theme of sustainable malls from Hattie’s recent trip to Dallas, BRE Global has just announced that several European members of the International Council of Shopping Centres (ICSC)  are having their shopping centres assessed under BREEAM.   Of the 23 schemes which are located in 13 different countries, 7 are located in Germany - and [...]

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Yeang at the AA

Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

The world has caught up with Ken Yeang, or has it? Yeang’s been designing  and preaching green for years.  With numerous books on green design to his name, Yeang was at the AA - where he studied once up on a time -last night to tout his most recent book, Eco Skyscrapers (actually published in [...]

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Grade A for performance

Posted on February 2nd, 2009 by sustainability

Cooper Cromar has completed the first two buildings in Scotland to achieve ‘A’ Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs).
Solail House is NG Bailey’s Scottish headquarters at Strathclyde Business Park and The Atrium Building is a speculative office development at West of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow.
Solail House has also achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating, employing a ground source [...]

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