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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......
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......
Lumistep Lighting Controls
Lumistep Lighting controls replaced the monochromatic low pressure sodium lighting along Milwr Road in the Pentre Halkyn district and Cross Tree Lane, Hawarden with Philips MASTER CosmoPolis lamps running on the new Lumistep......
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......
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......
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.
The Sustainble Property Appraisal Project
Valuing Green
Costing Energy Efficiency Improvements in Existing Commercial Buildings
Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Transforming the Market
Environmentally Smart Buildings
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
33 Aldgate House
The London Gensler office, which oversees the company’s activities in Europe and the Middle East, was opened in 1988 and currently employs 220 people. Over the course of 20 years Gensler London had grown substantially, occupying......
Property Needs Sustainability
Herman Miller
The European headquarters of Herman Miller completed in 2006 was designed to demonstrate how sustainable workplace generates greater teamwork and communication. The proposed scheme reflects the Herman Miller brand and actively......
Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance, the world’s largest law firm, moved out of the City of London to lease a 1,000,000 sq ft 33-floor tower in Canary Wharf. Working closely with the base building architects, Gensler tailored the building to Clifford......
Reed Smith – London Headquarters
The merger of Reed Smith with Richards Butler in 2007 created the global law firm’s largest office, worldwide. Although the merger proved incredibly successful, the fact that operations were spread over two sites necessitated......
GCHQ – New Accommodation Project
Despite its track record as a world-class intelligence provider , GCHQ was hindered by the operational and cultural disadvantages of having over 4,000 staff in 50 buildings, located on two sites, four miles apart. Social interaction......
Gensler Design and Performance Report
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.
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