Entries for 'Ella Taylor'

PRP Architects has completed a retrofit of a post-second world war mid-terrace house in Dartford as part of the Technology Strategy Board’s Retrofit for the Future competition

One of the key instruments in achieving the UK’s climate change targets may be delayed, creating further questions about the nation’s ability to meet its international commitments

The debate about whether ivy on buildings is a good or bad thing seems to have been put to rest

After a 20 year ban, local authorities are once more free to sell surplus renewable electricity to the National Grid

A number of recent reports examine cities and their moves to a low carbon future, and places the findings in the context of the new UK coalition government’s aspirations towards a green agenda

Owners of furnished holiday lettings face a tightened tax regime from April 2011, following the launch of a Government consultation in July

Felipe Cavalcante, president of ADIT Brasil, gives his views on likely future developments for the market in Brazil, one of the few major countries to have escaped the repercussions of the worldwide recession

Bradford City Council’s first new council housing for 30 years will include 12 homes built to Code for Sustainable Homes level 6

Wales’ new planning policy requiring all new homes to meet at least Code for Sustainable Homes level 3 takes effect on 1 September

A new primary school in Melbourne will see supply air for ground-coupled ventilation drawn through water-filled foundations, quadrupling the passive cooling capacity

Hardly anybody would have forecast 10 years ago that the business world would look as it does today

A public-private partnership is working on a £3m project to develop mass scale retrofitting technologies and processes

Kingspan Water has published a guide to reducing flood risk via surface water run-off in new builds in line with the Code for Sustainable Homes

The UKGBC has published an independent report of a consultation with its members on the future of BREEAM

DBIS knows that most energy sector workers will retire in the next 15 years so will need to be replaced, said Baroness Wilcox