All articles by Stephen Kennett – Page 25
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NewsGreen Building Store adds PassivHaus products
Construction product supplier launches new range to boost UK PassivHaus takeup
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NewsHistoric school combines local materials with Yorkon steel
Architect P+HS clads steel modules with timber and Welsh sandstone for extension to 467-year old Christ College near Brecon
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NewsWork starts on 24-storey modular tower
Modules for £24m student accommodation blocks in Wolverhampton will be supplied by VMS and Fleming Developments
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NewsBMW technology tested for use on low-energy housing
Car manufacturer's elastic skin technology is hoped to prove viable as a building material
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NewsCemex defies downturn with new concrete plants
Materials producer opens replacement plants costing £3.4m in east London and Birmingham
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NewsWorld's first Accoya road bridge set to open
Use of modified wood enables Dutch bridge builders to dispense with protective cladding
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FeaturesNatural ventilation: Second wind
A Cambridge university research team decided traditional natural ventilation strategies were just not up to scratch and came up with a new approach. Stephen Kennett reports
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NewsCarbon cuts cost £7,000 per home for sixties towers
Study shows building fabric alterations are the only way to hit 60% reduction target
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NewsLifecycle tool helps housing associations apply for funding
New costing tool from BLP was developed alongside the Housing Corporation
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FeaturesNothing to it: hollow concrete piling
When engineering contractor Stent wanted to improve the sustainability of its concrete pile foundations, it came up with a surprisingly simple solution. Make them hollow.
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NewsTechnological innovations that wowed the sustainability judges
Read how Roger Bullivant clinced the Innovation prize at the Sustainability Awards and take a closer look at the runners up
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NewsWater targets in Code to be reviewed
Standards may be too stringent because of unrealistic assumptions made on water used by appliances
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NewsCorus cuts 400 jobs as steel demand slides
Distribution workers axed after 'significant decline in demand' from construction and plant markets
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FeaturesDressing the pinnacle
Putting a cladding system on a shape as eccentric as the Pinnacle tower is hard enough. But how do you give it openable windows as well? Stephen Kennett found out
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NewsBRE launches landscape competition for Innovation Park
Landscape architects are invited to submit sustainable designs for a new area of the park at BRE's HQ
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NewsMusic school triumphs at Brick Awards
Project by architect van Heyningen & Haward was named Best Commerical Building and Supreme Winner at 2008 awards
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NewsEasy wins for low-carbon housing credits
BRE's latest information paper on Innovation Park homes explores carbon-cutting opportunities in less obvious areas
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NewsBRE launches standard for green and ethical specification
Rule is launched with 2012 Games in mind and should enable designers to source more sustainable materials
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FeaturesData centres: pruning energy consumption
The next time you use Google, think of the vast amounts of power data centres use – 20 times that of a normal office. Stephen Kennett looks at what companies are doing to prune their consumption