BREEAM Refurbishment Goes Live This Summer
A new rating programme that promotes sustainable renovations will be launched this summer by BRE. The BREEAM Refurbishment scheme will go live for registrations on 2 July 2012 and will focus on narrowing the huge gap between new buildings which are getting greener and the huge amounts of existing housing stock which are obviously not getting any greener. Addressing existing housing stocks and improving their performance is key to achieving the optimistic CO2 reduction goals set by the Government. The climate change act (2008) commits the UK to a 34% reduction on 1990 levels by 2020 and an...
read moreEco-Minimalism: The Way Forward for Green Architecture?
In an age of environmental desperation and ‘green-washed’ architecture solutions, buildings are suffering the wrath of green ignorance and consumerism. High-tech green solutions and government subsidies for alternative technologies are shifting the construction industries towards a future of inefficiency and wastefulness – an approach which could end up doing more harm to environment than good. Can Minimalist Green Architecture be the antidote?
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