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
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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
Arriving on Platform G: Google’s new King’s Cross office
Google’s landmark ‘Platform G’ office development will be arriving in King’s Cross, London in 2024. Andy Pearson talks to building services consultant Atelier Ten to…
March 2023
Framing finesse: Paddington Square’s innovative façade
The façade at Paddington Square in West London is anything but straightforward. Mace’s Ovi Mazareanu, and WSP’s Michele Sauchelli and Serena Gugliotta, describe how the…
February 2023
Case study: targeting UK’s highest Nabers rating in Pimlico
The Belgrave Road office development in London is the first to receive a Nabers UK 5.5 target rating for its carefully considered design. Andy Pearson…
February 2023
Net zero: lessons from practice
A deep-dive study on net zero carbon by architect AHMM is being put into practice at an ambitious mixed-use project featuring two towers in London.…
February 2023
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