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Siemens Headquarters Masdar City, Abu Dhabi HQ
Sheppard Robson’s design for Siemens’ headquarters at Masdar City has established a new model for sustainable office buildings in the Middle East.
Solar Plant Towers, Ivanpah – Mojave Desert Tower
The proposal for the design of the towers does not only show solutions for the functional assignment, but also wants to give BrightSource Energy a strong image as a reliable leader in the field of sustainable technologies and tries to make a contribution to its corporate design.
Energy Report AMO, Concept: Renewable
Renewable Energy Report, Concept Development by AMO, Architect, Information, Renewable Architecture, News, Development, Design: Energy Report
Green Architecture: Ecological Awareness
We have come a long way since the 70s when ideas about living ‘in harmony with nature’ and concerns about rising energy consumption first appeared. Those of us around at that time remember how the look of buildings changed.
Wimbish Passivhaus Scheme Essex homes
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.
Low Energy Building: Eco Architecture
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.
Passivhaus Conference UK, London Event
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.
Zero Carbon House Birmingham
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.
LEED Credit System: green design debate
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.
Roadmap 2050 AMO, Concept Developments
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
Scottish Eco-Town: Cardenden Buildings, Fife
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.
Wood Panel Industry: Timber Supply, Building
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.
Biomass: Wood Panel Industry, Forestry Production
Biomass, Timber Supply Issues – article by Alastair Kerr, Director General – Biomass issues, Wood Panel Industry, climate, energy: man-made carbon emissions
Re-Skinning Competition, Zerofootprint Architecture
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.
Eco Chimneys Madrid Buildings: Barrio
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
Biosphere Sustainability Centre, Gananoque building, Ontario, Canada by Paul Raff Studio, Architects: Canadian architecture development design