‘How low can we go?’ at ECA

Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by sustainability

The future of energy efficient buildings lies in efficient building envelopes and engineering systems.

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Good Homes Alliance launches monitoring initiative

Posted on May 5th, 2010 by sustainability


The GHA is going to measure energy performance of four projects.

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Levitt Bernstein’s Granville New Homes completes

Posted on November 19th, 2009 by sustainability

Levitt Bernstein Associates (LBA) has just completed this housing development in south Kilburn, London.

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Will we ever know if ecobuildings really work?

Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

 The flyer advertising the cancelled POE seminar

Next week’s seminar on post-occupancy evaluation at Oxford Brookes has been cancelled due to lack of interest.  I’d been looking forward to visiting the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development and especially to meeting the people behind the recently established knowledge transfer network with Architype.  The project is monitoring several of Architype’s recently [...]

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Listen again: Green school design on Radio 4

Posted on January 30th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

Amazingly, the same week that I’ve been writing about POE in the AJ and attending our own conference on the subject organised together with the Usable Buildings Trust, Radio 4’s programme Costing the Earth is all about whether so-called green schools are as green as their designers claim. The answer: the only way to [...]

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Getting energy data right…

Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Hattie Hartman

I spent a fascinating day yesterday at the AJ conference on post-occupancy monitoring. One of the recurring themes was the challenge of gathering accurate, consistent data, comparable data. Imagine my dismay when I looked at my POE feature in today’s AJ to find that the colour key for gas and electricity had [...]

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