All Features articles – Page 376
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The block buster
The UK has been slow to embrace the use of aerated clay blocks as an alternative to traditional cavity walls. But as well as having the edge on speed, they come with impeccable green credentials, says Stephen Kennett. Could they be the next big thing?
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The tracker: Calm before the storm?
The industry is bullish in the face of the volatile financial market but the residential sector is expected to feel the pressure soon. Experian Business Strategies reports
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Eco-towns analysed
News analysis: Brown’s Big Idea on becoming prime minister was to build 10 towns on 10 new sites. But it seems developers are using the eco-towns to add spoilers, fog lamps and go-faster stripes to schemes that have already been rejected.
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12 disciples
We found a dozen people who’d worked with Foster or his former partner Richard Rogers on their way to becoming celebrated architects in their own right, and asked them what they’d learned from following the way of the lords
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Improving internal performance
Morgan Ashurst finds ways to improve SHE including the reduction of waste
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Wind turbine for primary school
Miller included a wind turbine, PVCu-free cabling and rainwater harvesting on Middlestone Moor school
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Sustainable Dalby visitor centre
Miller construction builds fully recyclable timber building in North Yorkshire
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Operation landfill
Reducing construction waste makes economic sense and is good for the environment but what should the industry be aiming for? Wrap and Building gathered together a group of industry experts to discuss whether the goal of halving construction waste to landfill by 2012 is achievable and how it might be ...
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Naturally ventilated utility headquarters
Miller Construction designs and constructs the new Yorkshire Water headquarters
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Low energy building in Edinburgh
Miller Construction built City of Edinburgh Council Chambers with low embodied energy, C02 and waste
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Excellent BREEAM rating at school
Miller Construction achieved green rating at Hagley Haybridge High School in Worcestershire.
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Very good BREEAM rating for college
Vinci applied sustainable principles to buildings at Wood Green High School College of Sport
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Hademore level crossing
Use of pulverised fuel ash by Vinci in replacement of a railway level crossing by a road bridge
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Green roofs at Bromley school
Vinci built the new Bishop Justus secondary school in Bromley to a high environmental spec
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Eco-Learning Village in Croydon
Vinci aimed for environmental efficiency in new teaching buildings
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Shell Centre Tower water reduction
SPIE Matthew Hall worked with supply chain in refurb to reduce services water use
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Shell Centre Tower waste reduction
ISG and SPIE Matthew Hall used segregation to reduce waste going to landfill at 26-storey building.
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Off-site uni build
Morgan Ashurst has used off-site manufacturing for University of Manchester building
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Engaging school children on PFI
HBG employed a Learning Resource Coordinator to engage with community in Bromsgrove PFI scheme
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Remediation of land in Cardiff Bay
Taylor Woodrow worked on the scheme for the sustainable remediation of a 33ha site.