All Supplements articles – Page 18

  • Seventy-five native plant species have been introduced in the BRE gardens
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    Take in the view

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Landscaping is set to be the next big thing in sustainable design so Thomas Lane went to BRE’s Innovation Park to see how it should be done

  • Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ Barking Central development. This view shows the shared back garden, which is built above the refurbished library
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    The rise of the west

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Never mind the agonising slow-motion struggle to develop the eastern bits of the Gateway – in the west Stratford and Barking are shooting up...

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    Regulations

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Recent updates

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    Now what?

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The prototype homes in BRE’s Innovation Park has been a revelation for the rest of the industry. But when are they moving into an estate near us?

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    Land without people

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    You can’t 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

  • The Lighthouse - Here’s what a level six home looks like …
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    Sustainable housing products

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    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?

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    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 “worst of the worst” – places where it ...

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    Unreal city

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    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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    ...and people without buses

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    As we know, the Thames Gateway can’t 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

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    That’s 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’s about as likely

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    Bedzed's baby: Zedfactory housing in Andover

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Green architect Zedfactory has designed a housing development in Andover that takes the Bedzed principles and shows how they can be paid for

  • The 25 × 11m model stretches from Canary Wharf to the Isle of Sheppey in Kent – representing a distance of 75km
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    Looking ahead...

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Curious to know how the Thames Gateway will look when it’s all finished? Well if you feel like going to Ashford in Kent, there’s a model already built. And if you don’t, don’t worry, Chloë McCulloch’s already been and she took her camera

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    Retail Supplement Nov 2007

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

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    Specifier 16 November 2007

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

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    The outdoors type

    2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Jon Emery, the man behind Hammerson’s 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’t enjoy spending time at Bluewater

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    Introduction

    2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

    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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    Well stocked for greens

    2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Some of the UK’s 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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    There’s life in the old girl yet …

    2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

    Marks & Spencer’s Bournemouth branch is one of its ‘old ladies’ 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 ‘eco store’, complete with wind turbines and solar panels. But, ...

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    Dawn of the shed

    2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

    There’s something nasty lurking in the industrial wilderness, but it’s nothing that a bit of natural light and rainwater harvesting can’t sort out. Chris Wheal reports on the greening of the nation’s distribution centres

  • Mall of the Emirates
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    Checkout

    2007-11-12T00:00:00Z

    It’s big, brash and possibly the way of the future – Mott MacDonald's David Mercer gives an insider’s view of how Dubai does retail