Expansion and Reform of the Nautical Sport Services Building in Portonovo, Spain

Designed by Diaz y Diaz Arquitectos, Expansion and Reform of the Nautical Sport Services Building is located in Portonovo, Spain. The project builds on an existing building, with the need to extend the useful space and improve access from the promenade and the platform that surrounds it. Another premise of this project is to design a building that will become a landmark of the promenade of Portonovo,... 

Tags: Building insulation, Diaz, Energy conservation, Insulators, Nautical Sport Services Building, Portonovo, Sanxenxo, Spain, sustainable building

Amagansett a New Family House in New York, United States

The Amagansett House designed by Francois de Menil Architect PC is located in New York, United States.  With its roots in Eastern Long Island’s modernist design explorations during the 1950s and 1960s, the Amagansett House exemplifies functional simplicity and energy conservation in its resolution of client program and site conditions. The poetry of the house is in its restrained, simple form and... 

Tags: acre site, Amagansett, Atlantic ocean, Building insulation, East Hampton (town) New York, Energy conservation, energy efficient goals, Engineering, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Francois de Menil, Geography of New York, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Long Island Rail Road stations, Louver, Mechanical engineering, New York City, The Whaleboat House, United States, Ventilation

Wood Farm Residential Annexe in Ipswich, United Kingdom

The Wood Farm Residential Annexe designed by rodney black design studios is located in Ipswich, United Kingdom.  The specific building type is the green oak barn, examples of which are still standing and sound after 800 years. This design evolves the type by tectonic treatment of the interconnecting spaces, the use of purlin arch brace arcades to give the roof structure a fugal rhythm and by the outshot... 

Tags: Barn, Building insulation, Emissivity, Energy conservation, Engineering, Heat transfer, Insulated glazing, Insulators, Ipswich, Mechanical engineering, natural clay products, Thermal protection, United Kingdom, Windows, Wood

Loblolly house in Maryland, United States

Designed by Kieran Timberlake Architects, Loblolly house is located in Maryland, United States. This project proposes a new, more efficient method of building through the use of building information modeling (BIM) and integrated component assemblies. The thousands of parts that make up a house were collapsed into a small number of offsite fabricated cartridges and blocks and simply attached to an industrial... 

Tags: Building engineering, Building Information Modeling, Building insulation, Construction, Door, electric and mechanical systems, Energy conservation, Engineering, Environment, Heat transfer, Insulators, Kieran Timberlake Architects, Maryland, Mechanical engineering, radiation, Thermal insulation, United States

Deptford Green School in London, United Kingdom

Designed by Watkins Gray International, Deptford Green School Located in New Cross, South East London, the £27m new build project, which is part of Lewisham‘s BSF programme, will create a 11,600 sq m school able to accommodate 1300 pupils, including accommodation for 25 children with dyslexia. The design features include larger than standard classrooms offering flexible teaching formats, the organisation... 

Tags: Boiler, Building engineering, Building insulation, Education, Energy conservation, energy efficient systems, energy recovery systems, Engineering, Environment, GBP, Heat transfer, Heating, Heating ventilating and air conditioning, Insulators, London, Mechanical engineering, Thermal insulation, Watkins Gray International