The Water Tower (Photo: Channel 4 / Dennis Pedersen) Grand Designs: House of the Year, Channel 4, review: Another year, another shortlist of outlandish houses that don’t represent true British architecture By Barbara Speed Opinion Editor at iNews The House of the Year competition has rolled around again, and the homes on display are […]
Green Life Buildings (GLB) has agreed a strategic partnership with DTM Global Holdings to provide its Advanced Building System (ABS) to Canada, India and South East Asia. The partnership will focus on building greener homes in line with the need for immediate climate action. JV companies will be formed in Canada and India and the […]
The new homes will seek to deliver low-carbon housing with low energy environmental design while exploring modern methods of construction. Glenn Howells Architects has unveiled plans for a 5,000-home masterplan around the National Exhibition Centre in Solihull, east Birmingham The new ‘urban village’ will be built on more than 27ha of surface-level car parking […]
CARDIFF INSTALLS FIRST OF THEIR KIND GREEN, AFFORDABLE HOMES Wates Residential and Cardiff Council lowering nine modular homes onsite at Crofts Street, Plasnewydd First time this method of offsite construction used for permanent family homes in city Homes to be made available to residents on Council’s housing waiting list in just five weeks […]
Timber frame specialist, Blue Sky Property Services, of Norfolk, is always mindful of the environmental impact of its building and renovating projects. This is certainly true of the conversion of an old engineering unit into a luxury two double bedroom eco holiday rental being built in the Norfolk countryside. “We always specify West Fraser products […]
Lindsey Vest, Smart Cities & Smart Spaces Research Analyst at ABI Research explains: “The circular economy is an often-misunderstood concept that goes much further than waste management and can become a blueprint for cities. It is a movement away from our take-make-waste economy to one which designs out waste, keeps products and materials in use, […]
The 1.4 GW Phu Cuong Soc Trang offshore wind project, being developed as a joint venture between Mainstream Renewable Power and the Phu Cuong Group, is located off the southern coast of Vietnam and will be the largest offshore wind farm in South-East Asia In a vital step for the Phu Cuong Soc Trang Offshore […]
by Antonio Lopez of Stelling Properties With the Construction Industry accounting for nearly 40% of global emissions, to deliver the Government carbon reduction targets, traditional thinking and practices are changing, here Antonio Lopez of Stelling Properties explores the role Modular Construction can play in delivering Net Zero Buildings. What first needs to be recognised […]
Leaders from some of the UK’s most pioneering organisations have joined forces to explore the role of hydrogen in decarbonising the country’s industry, transport, and domestic heating sectors – which amount to 40% of the UK’s emissions, and the equivalent of 180 million tonnes of CO2. As part of a UK-wide roadshow on the approach […]
Nanosensor and Digital Twin technologies come together at COP26 to help deliver a circular economy as part of the race to zero Deploying billions of highly accurate and secure nanosensors interconnected to a global Digital Twin network can enable real-time monitorisation of emissions within urban and agricultural environments. Nanosensors and Digital Twins are forecast […]