Cover Story - Genesis The design contract for the Genesis project for the Somerset College of Art and Technology was won in competition; the brief was a building to ‘express, explore and evaluate cutting edge thinking in sustainable construction and introduce the use of sustainable materials into the mainstream construction industry’. The architects, Architype, explain ...

Building a low carbon future - These are interesting times for anyone with an interest in bringing low-carbon buildings into the mainstream. We have new, tighter building regulations to think about; new methods of compliance to grapple with; voluntary codes to consider; and several local authorities ‘doing a Merton’ – demanding even tougher standards as a condition of planning. Where will all this activity actually get us, Gavin Killip wonders?

The Merton Rule - The London Borough of Merton is the first local authority to adopt, as part of its unitary development plan, a policy mandating the inclusion of renewables in large scale newbuild. Since its introduction in the borough (from which it takes it’s name), the Merton Rule, which mandates that 10% of energy consumption is to be met from renewable sources on new non-residential buildings over 1000 square metres, has rapidly gathered momentum. Gavin Harper reports ...

Healthy heating - Most of us in the eco-building community are familiar with the idea of efficient heating systems. With space heating being a major drain on fossil fuels, this makes sense, but we are perhaps overlooking the effects heating systems may have on our health. With this in mind, Chris Morgan argues that we run the risk of solving some problems only to create others...

Also:
*  Overdemand for ecoburbia
*  Visual costs of renewables
*  Cutting carbon and waste
*  Roofing and facades feature
*  The AECB summit.
and loads more.

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Published date September 10th 2006