City Centre Campus at University of Wales in Newport, United Kingdom

BDP has create a new visual identity for Newport region through Glazed volume for University of Wales’s City Centre Campus that located in Newport, United Kingdom. Read more details below: The University of Wales, Newport commissioned a masterplan to create a new campus for the schools of Art, Media, Design, Business and Technology on the [...]

Tags: Architecture, carbon technologies, Energy conservation, Environmental design, Low-energy building, Sustainability, sustainable building, University of Wales

Waingels College in Wokingham, United Kingdom

Waingels College that located in Wokingham, United Kingdom, was designed by Sheppard Robson. Developer Willmott Dixon is replacing the existing college and asked Sheppard Robson to showcase the latest technologies in sustainable design. Computer designed cross laminated solid timber panels from sustainably managed forests will create the school’s load bearing structure – a sophisticated ‘flat [...]

Tags: Architecture, Concrete, concrete frame systems, Construction, Education, Sheppard Robson and Partners, steel, sustainable design, United Kingdom, Visual arts, Waingels College, Wokingham

Astudio applies micro scale technology to a macro scale ‘refurbishment’ in London, United Kingdom

Designed by Astudio Architecture, Astudio applies micro scale technology to a macro scale ‘refurbishment’ is located in London, United Kingdom. At  Astudio, the company are focused on shaping the city’s future by reusing existing structures, developing new material technologies (with their link to Greenwich University AVATAR group), e.g. living technologies that generate bio fuels, and [...]

Tags: Astudio Architecture, Carbon footprint, Environmental issues with energy

Green Lighthouse in Copenhagen, Denmark

Green Lighthouse, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by  Christensen & Co Architects, Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public building, demonstrates that sustainable design is not a question of stuffing the building with brazen, expensive high-tech gadgets, but that it starts with good old fashioned common sense. In fact 70% of the reduction of the energy consumption [...]

Tags: Alternative energy, Atmospheric sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark, energy, energy consumption, Energy economics, energy use, Environment, Green Lighthouse, heat recovery systems, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, high-tech gadgets, integrated state-of-the-art technology, Low-energy building, Photovoltaic module, solar energy, Solar gain, VELUX

Cold Spring Green in Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Designed by ARCADD Inc, Cold Spring Green located in Newton, Massachusetts, United States. The townhouses at Cold Spring Green in Newton, Massachusetts aim to modernise the typical New England house and display soaring ceilings and skylights, stainless steel accents, and glass prominence. After difficulties such as the city building department delaying building permits by six [...]

Tags: Alternative energy, ARCADD Inc, energy, Energy economics, energy-efficient technologies, Environment, Environmental technology, free gas, Geothermal energy, Heating, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Low-energy building, Massachusetts, New England, Newton, overall energy requirements, stainless steel accents, Sustainability, United States