Hattie Hartman’s sustainability blog: best practice, projects and products
The day provided a good mix of elucidating areas where the UK-GBC has been effective at lobbying Government and showing some inspirational ways forward.
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Passions ran high at The EDGE event at the Danish Embassy last week on Engineering the Road to Copenhagen. The main message was heartening – at least sort of.
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Guest Blogger Lynne Sullivan, Sustainable by Design
Last month’s ministerial announcement on the Zero Carbon Homes Definition
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Guest Blogger Lynne Sullivan, Sustainable by Design
Having chaired the Part L and Part F Working Party on behalf of BRAC, I was not surprised to see the hard copy consultation amount to some 800 pages.
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Guest Blogger Lynne Sullivan, Sustainable by Design
The RIBA and other professional institutions are considering what they can usefully contribute in the run up to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. Measures set out in ‘The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan’ issued recently by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, amount to [...]
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I know the Concrete Centre puts on lots of good events for architects but I was surprised to find any at all at last week’s launch of the concrete industry’s first Sustainability Performance Report at Lancaster House. The combination of the gilded venue, a welcome from Jonathon Porritt and the champagne reception drew a good crowd, [...]
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