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06 December 2011
Camden Council has reduced its carbon footprint by 9% according to figures released for 2010/11, as part of the national 10:10 Campaign.
17 January 2012
Two energy efficient developments aimed at tackling low housing demand have been completed in Barnsley.
17 January 2012
A new prefabricated housing solution that can be assembled in less than two months is being pioneered in India by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
13 December 2011
A recent report published by UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme, has highlighted the cost to the environment of what were previously believed to be ‘ozone friendly’ HFCs.
06 December 2011
President Barack Obama has this month announced a $4bn fund of private and federal investment to upgrade the efficiency of buildings over the next two years.
08 November 2011
Passivhaus and virtually everything to do with it - from engraining it in national policy to whether architects should love or hate PPHP - was brought into questioning at the second annual UK Passivhaus Conference held in London this month. Laura Day reports on day one.
05 September 2011
Green Deal work undertaken by Birmingham City Council is to extend to non-domestic public buildings, spending £1.2bn on retrofitting over eight years.
02 September 2011
A survey of small and medium enterprises has revealed that while many are interested in energy efficiency and have made moves to implement such measures, a lack of information, cost and red tape are barriers to SMEs being able to take full advantage.
02 September 2011
Heritage body the Society for the Protection of Older Buildings (SPAB) and a number of organisations and individuals in the conservation sector, have called for Government to consider the needs of pre 1919 buildings under the Green Deal.
02 September 2011
Two former architecture students have established an organisation to help rebuild destroyed properties affected during the UK riots earlier in the month.
09 August 2011
The Australian state of Canberra has entered the next phase of the development of national legislation which would see minimum energy efficiency standards implemented across the country.
10 June 2011
Research consultancy BRE Global has signed an agreement with Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate (SERA) to support the responsible sourcing standard for aggregates.
10 June 2011
A website to trade and exchange sustainable building materials has started on Tyneside.
31 May 2011
Housing minister Grant Shapps has finally announced a “tough but realistic” definition of the zero carbon homes standard, which will affect all new homes from 2016.