Low Carbon Building Awards, Scotland
The Carbon Trust Low Carbon Building Awards have been specifically designed to acknowledge and applaud the success of organisations in Scotland in designing, refurbishing and building low carbon buildings.
Sustainable building designs
Sustainable building designs and architects
e-architect select sustainable building designs and eco design projects around the world. Discover green architecture projects news and pictures of the best new sustainable buildings globally. Find zero-carbon and low carbon properties by respected eco designers and architects.
Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research
Henning Larsen Architects has won the competition for a new research building for the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Stuttgart.
Siemens Crystal: Urban Sustainability Centre London
Siemens has been given the go ahead by the London Borough of Newham for the development of a £30 million landmark sustainability centre in London’s Docklands.
bambooline berlin sustainable development
The bambooline berlin explores the cities urban development and proposes a new approach for the temporary, interim use of sustainable urban wasteland.
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