Max Fordham takes on Britain’s biggest Passivhaus
The redevelopment of the Agar Grove estate, in Camden, is not only expected to be the biggest residential Passivhaus development…
28 January 2016
Case Studies
Outstanding projects highlighting services design and operation
Horses for courses – services at the new Cheltenham Racecourse grandstand
3 March 2016
Light and shade – Siemens Middle Eastern headquarters
The brief from Siemens was that it wanted a building with a great LEED rating,’ says Robert Murphy, associate director…
4 January 2016
Beyond Oil – Irena Headquarters Masdar
It is fitting that the new headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, should…
23 December 2015
Guaranteed performance – Somerset House’s risk-free services retrofit
London’s Somerset House comes to life in winter. Its illuminated neoclassical façades form a sparkling backdrop to the open-air ice-rink…
26 November 2015
The home of graphene
In 2004, two professors at the University of Manchester Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov isolated graphene, and such is the fascination…
4 November 2015
No compromise – Passivhaus Enterprise Centre in Norwich
Is this the UK’s greenest commercial building? The Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich is targeting…
16 September 2015
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