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好色先生TVTake in the view
Landscaping is set to be the next big thing in sustainable design so Thomas Lane went to BRE鈥檚 Innovation Park to see how it should be done
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好色先生TVThe rise of the west
Never mind the agonising slow-motion struggle to develop the eastern bits of the Gateway 鈥� in the west Stratford and Barking are shooting up...
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好色先生TVLand without people
You can鈥檛 build houses without land, and 3 million houses requires an awful lot of it. So how can the public sector help their friends in the private get their hands on it? Well, the recent green paper has some ideas
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好色先生TVSustainable housing products
The way you build a home goes half way to making it sustainable. The other half is its M&E and water harvesting. Alex Smith looks at how the homes in the BRE innovation park used new technology to tackle both
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How can we tackle the remaining non-Decent homes?
The government pledge to bring all affordable homes up to a decent standard by 2010 is an ambitious task.Many have already been improved under the Decent Homes programme, but a number of estates have yet to be tackled. Among them are the 鈥渨orst of the worst鈥� 鈥� places where it ...
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好色先生TVUnreal city
Gordon Brown is promising 10 new eco towns, but are we buying into another illusion? (Anybody here remember the millennium villages?)
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好色先生TV...and people without buses
As we know, the Thames Gateway can鈥檛 succeed without a lot of money being spent on public transport. Yes, but whose money? A recent scheme in Kent may have answered that question
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A wall, high, around the Earth
That鈥檚 something else we could do with the 33 billion bricks needed to build those 3 million extra homes. And given the decidedly chilly economic forecast, some are arguing that it鈥檚 about as likely
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好色先生TVBedzed's baby: Zedfactory housing in Andover
Green architect Zedfactory has designed a housing development in Andover that takes the Bedzed principles and shows how they can be paid for
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好色先生TVLooking ahead...
Curious to know how the Thames Gateway will look when it鈥檚 all finished? Well if you feel like going to Ashford in Kent, there鈥檚 a model already built. And if you don鈥檛, don鈥檛 worry, Chlo毛 McCulloch鈥檚 already been and she took her camera
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FeaturesThe outdoors type
Jon Emery, the man behind Hammerson鈥檚 redevelopment of the Birmingham Bullring, is repeating the trick in Bristol and Leicester. He tells Lucy Handley why the era of the indoor out-of-town shopping centre is over and why he doesn鈥檛 enjoy spending time at Bluewater
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Introduction
Retail has never been a sector for the fainthearted. For construction firms, it means slashing your prices so your client can keep slashing theirs, working round the clock, and around milling customers with absolutely no impact on sales, or pulling off a flawless finish against an immovable deadline.
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好色先生TVWell stocked for greens
Some of the UK鈥檚 largest retailers are introducing fabulous new ranges of sustainable building practices. Eleanor Harding finds out what four of the biggest stores are doing differently and what this means for their suppliers.
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好色先生TVThere鈥檚 life in the old girl yet 鈥�
Marks & Spencer鈥檚 Bournemouth branch is one of its 鈥榦ld ladies鈥� a typical forties-built high street shop that, in carbon terms, is a relic from a bygone age. They could have quietly closed it down and built a nice green 鈥榚co store鈥�, complete with wind turbines and solar panels. But, ...
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好色先生TVDawn of the shed
There鈥檚 something nasty lurking in the industrial wilderness, but it鈥檚 nothing that a bit of natural light and rainwater harvesting can鈥檛 sort out. Chris Wheal reports on the greening of the nation鈥檚 distribution centres
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