Case study: Dubai’s award-winning Museum of the Future

Building information modelling and parametric modelling were key to the design and construction of the Museum of the Future, in Dubai, which won a design…

April 2023 BIM

Making a splash: recovering heat from mini data centres for leisure centres

A project that uses waste heat from a mini data centre to warm a public swimming pool in Devon hit the headlines last month. Molly…

April 2023 data centres

Taking the waters: recovering heat from the Roman Baths

Heat from Bath’s hot springs is being used to warm surrounding buildings including the new Clore Learning Centre. Andy Pearson finds out how Buro Happold…

April 2023 heat pumps

Designing net zero for pupil wellbeing

Cundall has created new premises for Beormund Primary School that not only meet net zero aspirations, but also cater for the social, emotional and mental health…

CIBSE Building Performance Champion: getting real with retrofits

To meet its net zero targets, the UK has to get to grips with carbon emissions in its ageing houses, and fast. The Welsh School…

March 2023 CIBSE

Circular route: New Street station lighting retrofit

To minimise embodied carbon in the retrofitting of nearly 900 luminaires at Birmingham’s New Street station, Q Sustain used CIBSE TM65 to calculate the potential…

March 2023 Embodied carbon
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