The past week has seen a bout of navel gazing amongst probably the two crucial professions at the front end of dealing with energy use in buildings, namely architects and services engineers. In the architecture corner David Nixon, originally a founder of influential firm Future Systems, issued a rallying call to the profession to take [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Building Sustainable Design’
Passiv(e) thinking
Passivhaus appears to be the word of 2009 so far in green design terms. It’s moved from the pages of Building, Building Sustainable Design and BD to the voices of influence amongst the chattering classes – Channel 4 building porn show Grand Designs and the Observer architectural guru Stephen Bayley. The former offered an example [...]
Hello BSD
I have been very remiss in not introducing you to the new monthly title and website that is BSD
(Building Sustainable Design). The best introduction to what the title is all about is offered by editor Andy Pearson on a video that we produced internally for the launch of BSD, which took place earlier in [...]
