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Energy Report AMO, Sustainable Building Concept, Development Project News, Design Energy Report Vision by AMO Renewable Energy Report: Sustainable Building Design Vision 3 Feb 2011 Energy Report – Vision by AMO GROUNDBREAKING REPORT DESCRIBES A WORLD 100% RELIANT ON RENEWABLE ENERGY BY 2050 3 February, 2011 – The Energy Report: a comprehensive study developed by … Read more
New Wimbish Housing, UK’s first rural affordable housing Passivhaus scheme: insulation material manufactured by Dow Building Solutions is being used to insulate what is set to be the UK’s first rural affordable housing scheme to gain Passivhaus certification.
For me, elegance arises from the ability to solve multiple problems with a simple solution based on the principles of eco-minimalism, as defined by the architect Howard Liddell.
The first ever UK conference devoted entirely to the Passivhaus standard on 11th October includes a keynote speeches by Prof Wolfgang Feist, the creator of the Passivhaus standard, and the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Chris Huhne.
This is not for the architecturally faint-hearted. Past winner of the RIBA Sustainability Award for a house made of cob walls in Worcester, and associate at Associated Architects, John Christophers has transformed an existing end of terrace house into a ground-breaking carbon-neutral family home of rare quality using low energy materials and environmental systems.
In the past decade, the idea of building ‘green’ has sprouted globally. Gradually it has turned into one of those temporary trends set up to support marketing of related fields of construction activity.
AMO. The research based think tank within the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has extended its expertise in planning into the design of the future energy infrastructure of the EU as part of Roadmap 2050: A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe
Scotland’s first ‘zero-carbon settlement’ is a 5,000 home eco-town in Cardenden, Fife. Cardenden Eco-town ‘Vision and Delivery Statement’ unveiled by Banks Developments in Edinburgh on 28 Feb, attended by MSPs.
Fundamentally this is an issue that is directly related to climate change. Not in the sense that a changing climate will impact on species choice, forest pests or increase incidences of storm damage or forest fires.
Zerofootprint, a leading organization in the global fight against climate change, along with its partner the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto, welcomes nominations for the 2011 Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards.
This project is about 5 ECO chimneys – “ECOndicionadas” – that are now being built in Madrid in a new residential area called “ECO BARRIO” (Eco neighbourhood) integrated in a programme of sustainable architecture.
Biosphere Sustainability Centre, Gananoque building, Ontario, Canada by Paul Raff Studio, Architects: Canadian architecture development design
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has completed the first phase of the Chicago Central Area DeCarbonization Plan, a comprehensive vision for helping the City of Chicago reach its carbon reduction goals in the downtown Loop
O’ Mighty Green Project, Eco Buildings, Green Wash, Project, Design, Images O’ Mighty Green : Greenwash Greenwash Project – by STAR strategies + architecture 9 Jun 2011 O’ Mighty Green STAR strategies + architecture Sustainability currently shares many qualities with God; supreme concept, omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient; creator and judge, protector, and (…) saviour of … Read more
Sustainable Scottish Building, tyrehouse in East Lothian: this is not the only UK earthship: at time of writing there are 16 Earthships being built in Brighton and there are some in Fife too.
Green Lighthouse, Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public building, is a faculty building at the Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen. The building has multiple purposes including teaching facilities, student advisory, administration and faculty lounge.
World Green Center, Santiago Business District Project, Chile Development, Chilean Architecture World Green Center, Chile Santiago Building Project – design by cCe Arquitectos 8 Jul 2013 Santiago Business District Development Design: cCe Arquitectos Huechuraba, Santiago, Chile World Green Center Chile Certain factors, such as the Business District site in relation to the city, connecting roads, … Read more
Architype has submitted a planning application for the UK’s largest Passivhaus housing scheme for a rural site, near to their Herefordshire office. The project is the first stage in realising an ambitious vision to transform both the quality and the sustainability of developer housing in the UK
