Drivers Jonas scoops sustainable supplier award from Home Office
19 August, 2008
BREAAM 'Excellent' building saves £6m in running costs over the life of the lease
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Existing stock: The Facts
18 August, 2008
All the stats you need to know about the challenges and problems faced by industry and government when facing refubishing already-built homes.
TV: Paul King on the existing stock
19 August, 2008
The UK Green Building Council chief executive on the upcoming Government consultation on greening existing housing
Case Studies
Eco-refurbishment to pioneer new heat pump technology
14 August, 2008
Architect Gillard Associates to use Swiss Zehnder low energy system for the first time in the UK on Welsh college
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Here is the verdict on the BRE's super homes ...
8 August 2008
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Designer eco-homes in the Cotswolds
4 August, 2008
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DIG! A Dutch method of sorting out energy
Specifier 1st August 2008
Honda opens green car showroom - images
11 August, 2008
Romford dealership uses 30% less energy thanks to green innitiatives including ground source heating pumps
Features
Sustained summer reading and listening
4 August, 2008
Stuck for a rip-roaring read or an essential soundtrack to your summer break? Try out this über list of print or plastic (or MP3) which range from the sublime (Proust, Glenn Gould) to the ridiculous (Howard Jones and a singing bear)
Energy Performance Certificates
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Consultant raises fears over EPCs
15 August 2008
Misleading EPCs produced by assessors who fail to carry out site surveys
IES enters free DEC software market
7 August, 2008
Alternative to 'incomplete' ORCalc being developed by the Scottish firm.
Sustainability TV
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Biomass discussed
Biomass discussed
18 August, 2008
Sustainability editor Phil Clark discusses the potential of wood-chip biomass with report Michael Willoughby
Research and Data
House doctor - built-in sunshine
8 August 2008
Fuel costs being what they are, housing design must make the most of sunlight to heat houses. Peter Caplehorn of Scott Brownrigg explains how to arrive at an integrated solution
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Using software to avoid greenwash
25 July 2008
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Cost of the code examined
2 July, 2008
Green Gurus
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Dave Hampton on green gurus part 2
Dave Hampton on green gurus part 2
15 August, 2008
The Carbon Coach runs through numbers four to ten in our list of the most important green building figures
We need political will for the existing stock
15 August, 2008
The answers are there to reduce emissions from UK housing. Once the UKGBC wraps up its consultation - the 18th piece of work in this policy area since 2000 - it's time for Whitehall to finally act, says David Strong
Technical and Product
‘Plundered with impunity’ - illegal timber in UK construction
8 August, 2008
According to Greenpeace, the world’s rainforests are being devastated by the trade in illegal timber – a trade the UK profits from more than almost any other country.
Sustainability Now
Latest exhibitor: BREEAM
18 August, 2008
Find out all about the newly released version of the BREEAM sustainability standard at the Sustainability Now show
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Exhibitor of the week: Itho Ventilation Limited
Exhibitor of the week: Itho Ventilation Limited
11 August, 2008
Holland's ventilation market leader tells show attendees how its products can help engineers meet Code for Sustainable Homes standards
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