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New Irish Office of Public Works HQ
As a flagship low energy building, the new Office of Public Works (OPW) HQ required a significant reduction in energy consumption when compared to a traditionally designed government headquarters. In order to achieve this, an......
Innovate Green Office at Thorpe Park Business Park
The project team used a fresh design approach. An engineering design exercise, led by King Shaw Associates, produced an environmentally friendly and commercially sustainable prototype building design which was then applied to......
Australian Ethical Investments Head Office
Australian Ethical Investment (AEI) is an Australian investment company who specialise in environmental and socially responsible investment. It is a part of AEI’s philosophy to promote ecologically sustainable and socially just......
La Vola
A reduction of the total primary energy demand of the building by more than 30 % has been obtained compared to a conventional office building due to an optimised building envelope, a highly efficient lighting system, low consuming......
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (CML), the local authority responsible for the management of the Lisbon municipality, became the first Portuguese GreenBuilding Partner in July 2006. The candidature of CML was based on a set of 5......
HUSÖ Fastighets AB
The district courthouse was built in 1909 and renovated in 2005. It is heated by district heating, based on almost 100% renewable fuels. Before the renovation, the building was heated with oil. In the process the renovation......
Protestant church of Stadl Paura
The renovation, which amounted to costs about 70,000 €, was organized and financed with substantial support from the local rectorate. An energy certificate describes the situation before and after the renovation. The church......
City of Nuremberg
The City of Nuremberg received the partner status for the refurbishment of the 19th century administration and cantina building of the Nuremberg abattoir. In the conversion of the 3-storey building to a nursery school with an......
University of Arts, Berlin
Siemens Building Technologies (SBT) will realise energy saving measures within the Energy Saving Partnerships (ESP) in Berlin. ESP was developed and implemented in Berlin as a model for efficient Performance Contracting with......
Menerga d.o.o., Maribor
In 2004, they moved into a newly built office building. The extra costs of the energy improvement measures amounted to 61,600 €. 3.117m˛ Office New Build Maribor • Building envelope with improved insulation • Ventilation systems...
Renewable Energy House
The Renewable Energy House, a 2.000 m2 large office building with modern meeting facilities built in 1885, has been the central address for renewable energy issues in Brussels since 2006. It shows that any sustainable energy......
Provincia di Venezia
The Provincia di Venezia is a provincial planning authority for Venice and the surronding areas. The Provincia di Venezia also manages almost one hundred educational buildings, as well as a number of fire stations, barracks......
Piraeus Bank
This building with 7 floors above the ground and 5 underground garage floors has a total area of 19,250m˛ . For the renovation, an energy design study was realised, which included the examination of energy saving potentials......
Future Electronics EMEA, Parent’s European HQ
In remodeling the building to suit the company’s needs, Future Electronics executives decided to use solid-state lighting products to create a new lighting ambiance and to replace many of the existing halogen and CFL fixtures.......
Jessop West
Jessop West provides cohesive and integrated state of the art facilities for the University of Sheffield’s English, Modern Language and History departments. The building is divided into three wings of six, five and four storeys......
Croydon Gateway
Arup was commissioned to conduct a feasibility study, assessing the likely outcome of installing a combined heat and power (CHP) plant to meet some of the site’s energy demand. To represent the range of possible approaches three......
One Gallions, Zero Carbon Development
The objective of the landowner, the London Development Authority, was to set a precedent for highly energy efficient developments in an area of major strategic importance. It is envisioned that Gallions Park will act as a benchmark......
Cruddas Park
Throughout the work to date the team have focussed on the creation of a sustainable community at New Cruddas Park. The broad intention of the regeneration of Cruddas Park has been to improve quality of life for local and future......
Cranberry CHP
The Cranberry estate was constructed in the mid 1980s and consists of a mixture of social housing and private dwellings. The social housing is all electrically heated while the private housing has a mixture of electric and gas......
GSW Headquarters
Project requirements: The creation of 19,000m˛ of high quality space suitable for modern workstations, team working and a customer-focused environment A productive, environmentally responsive, low-cost in use environment Functional......
Unilever House
Commissioned in 1932, the 24,000 sqm Grade II listed property sits on the north bank of the Thames, in the heart of London. Providing the very highest specification commercial space with a FAR of 7.9, the building is moments......
Shopping Square Meydan
Remarkable architecture in association with innovative engineering are the outstanding features of the “Meydan Shopping Square" being opened by METRO Group Asset Management in August 2007 in Istanbul. The building complex represents......
Kraanspoor
Kraanspoor (translated as craneway) is a light-weight transparent office building of three floors built on top of a concrete craneway on the grounds of the former NDSM (Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij) shipyard,......
ADIA Headquarters
The building is located on Abu Dhabi’s heavily planted, lush Corniche. The office wing to the north follows the city’s rigid urban grid, while the wing to the south appears to open like a book, creating a space that looks out......
Pall Italia Building
The site is located in an area available for industrial use. The project for the new headquarters of PALL ITALIA S.r.l. consists of two new industrial buildings (A and B) and the renovation of an existing two-story building.......
The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
This Directive aims to promote the energy performance of buildings, by increasing their efficiency.
Planning Policy Statement: Planning and Climate Change
This PPS sets out how planning should help shape places with lower carbon emissions.
Planning and Energy Act 2008
This Act enables local planning authorities to set requirements for energy use and energy efficiency
Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive
The aim of this Directive is to enhance the cost effective improvement of energy end use efficiency. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union Pan-European April 2006 EuroACE Resource Centre www.euroace.org...
Green Paper on Energy Efficiency
How the building industry could use their energy better through economical technology and behaviour.
Climate Change Act 2008
It establishes a framework for the UK to achieve its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Energy White Paper - Our Energy Future
This Paper defines a strategic vision for energy, looking ahead to 2050 to set the overall context.
DCLG Zero Carbon Statement
The paper sets out current Government thinking on zero carbon new non-domestic buildings.
Summary of Responses to DCLG Zero Carbon Statement
A summary of responses to the DCLG Zero Carbon Statement.
Energy Performance Certificates
EPCs are now required for all commercial buildings whenever built, rented or sold.
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The Sustainble Property Appraisal Project
Valuing Green
Costing Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Commercial Buildings
Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Transforming the Market
Carbon Reduction Commitment
The CRC is a proposed cap and trade scheme that will apply to non energy-intensive organisations.
Display Energy Certificates
DECs show the Operational Rating of a building, and help the public see its energy efficiency.
The Five Steps to Improve Energy Efficiency
Property Needs Sustainability
The Warren, Ashford
The Warren, situated in Ashford, is a project to develop three sites, into a useful and more environmentally friendly area. On these sites, the building work will include a residential area, a supermarket with a car park and......
Ministry of Finance
In one of the first Public-Private collaboration projects in The Netherlands, The Ministry of finance building will be renovated to satisfy the governement, who do not deem the current state of the building suitable enough for......
UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Treaty
This Convention resulted from the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.
COP 3 - The Kyoto Protocol, 1997
The Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change promotes a global unified effort to reduce CO2 emissions.
COP1 1995 - Berlin
The Berlin Mandate UNFCCC Conference of the Parties Global 1995 www.unfccc.int Since the UNFCCC entered into force, the parties have been meeting annually in Conferences of the Parties (COP) to assess progress in dealing with...
COP 2 - 1996, Geneva
UNFCCC 2nd Conference of the Parties
COP 4 - Buenos Aires, 1998
4th Conference of the Parties in 1998, in Buenos Aires.
COP 5 - Bonn, Germany, 1999
5th Conference of the Parties for the UNFCCC
COP 6 - The Hague, Netherlands
6th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in The Hague, Netherlands
COP 6 bis, Bonn, Germany - 2001
Reconvening of the COP to complete discussions from COP 6 in The Hague the previous year. UNFCCC Conference of the Parties Global 2001 http://unfccc.int/cop6/ COP 6 negotiations resumed July 17-27, 2001, in Bonn, Germany, with...
COP 7 - Marrakech 2001
Negotiators completed the work of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action.
COP 8 - New Delhi, India
The Eighth Session of the Conference of Parties (COP-8) to the UNFCCC
COP 9 - Milan, 2003
Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC. UNFCCC Conference of the Parties Global - across all Member Parties of the UNFCCC 2003 http://unfccc.int/cop8/index.html Negotiations at COP 9 in Milan, Italy, produced...
COP 10 - Buenos Aires, 2004
Tenth Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC.
COP 11 - Montreal, 2005
An agreement to extend the life of the Kyoto Protocol beyond its 2012 expiration date. UNFCCC Conference of the Parties Global - across all UNFCCC Member Parties 2005 http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_11 Canada hosted the first...
COP 12 - Nairobi, Kenya, 2006
The 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Nairobi, Kenya in 2006. UNFCCC Conference of the Parties Global - across all Member Parties of the UNFCCC 2006 http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_12 Kenya hosted...
COP 13 - the Bali Action Plan, 2007
13th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC in Bali, Indonesia in 2007.
COP 14 - Poznan, Poland, 2008
14th Conference of the Paries of the UNFCCC in Poznan, 2008.
COP 15 - Copenhagen, December 2009
The 15th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC to be held in Copnehagen in December 2009.
The Christman Building
The Christman Building—a 64,190-square-foot (5,963-sq-m) Class A office building—is a sustainable retrofit of the 80-year-old Mutual Building in downtown Lansing, Michigan. The renovation has made the Christman Building the......
Proximity Hotel
Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, the sustainably designed Proximity Hotel features 147 guest rooms and suites, a full-service restaurant, and 5,000 square feet (465 sq m) of meeting and event space. The first hotel in......
Room to Grow in Hong Kong
