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Embedding sustainability in the education sector
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13 June — written by Lucy Kimberley, North Warwickshire & Hinckley College
Lucy Kimberley tells us about her biggest sustainable business challenges including an ageing building stock and gaining access to funding. As the sustainability officer at …
How can you achieve further energy savings even when your BMS, boiler and other heating controls have been optimized?
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13 June — added by Geoff Newman, Sabien Technology
Many energy managers will already have implemented a number of measures to help reduce the energy consumption of their boiler plant. Obvious examples include ensuring the …
Meet the man accelerating green building across Europe
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10 June — written by Elaine Hsieh, GreenBiz Group
Elaine Hsieh meets Steven Borncamp, a true advocate for promoting policy, practices and technologies for green building across Europe Steven Borncamp is a green building …
The myth of ‘low energy’ buildings
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7 June — written by Liz Reason, Green Gauge Trust
With energy prices rising, the time has come to take the energy performance of buildings seriously. The first step is to monitor and measure energy use to find out what works …
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June’s hot topic: Closing the energy performance gap
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10 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
When a new low carbon building or refurbishment doesn't perform as well as was predicted, it’s often the 'the design performance gap' that is blamed. This month in the Built …
How to overcome the building performance gap
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8 June — added by Ginny Mackean, Institute for Sustainability
Some tools and techniques to help project teams avoid common design pitfalls and help identify and evaluate poorly performing systems.
A campaign for real architecture
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7 June — written by Paul Hinkin, Black Architecture
Is accurately assessing the additional value that sustainable buildings create through improved occupant performance the answer to making a robust business case for …
Driverless cars: Who's leading the race to be first to market?
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7 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
Driverless cars are coming closer to reality with eight major global motoring players all working on the technology. Driverless cars could offer a number of environmental …
BREEAM goes international to capitalize on its popularity abroad
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6 June — written by Stephen Kennett, 2degrees
The popularity and success of the sustainable building standard BREEAM has pushed the BRE into launching an international version. The BREEAM International New Construction …
Have you used an energy performance contract?
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2 May — started by Rebecca Dilks, Thorntons
Has anybody worked with an ESCO on an Energy Performance Contract and would you recommend them? It would be especially useful to get some feedback from other companies in the …
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