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Pete Halsall

A challenge to AJ readers

Spend a day getting to grips with the actual performance of one of your recent buildings, writes Pete Halsall

Room 13, Bristol: the volume of this highly-insulated multipurpose arts space for a primary school is designed to facilitate natural stack ventilation

Low-energy design: two views - Piers Taylor

Looking abroad, we see many examples of intelligent passive design, writes Piers Taylor

Brockman Hall for Physics, Rice Univeristy, Houston, Texas, 2011: the north elevation’s  glass curtain wall utilises a Penrose pattern to allow daylight penetration while screening out unwanted solar gain and glare

Low-energy design: two views - Kieran Timberlake

Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake argue for technology as a key generator of sustainable design

5th Studio

Look and learn

Despite the time and costs involved, wider acceptance of monitoring is gaining momentum. Hattie Hartman and Laura Mark report

Sustainability in practice

Design for a wetter future today

New approaches to flood prevention can drive innovative design, writes Robert Barker

Architype's Bessemer School

Monitoring and the Plan of Work

Laura Mark looks at how post occupancy evaluation is accounted for in the RIBA Plan of Work

FootprintWire

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FootprintWire 17.05.13

Today’s green news: Skyscraper proposal has wind turbines embedded in its facade

Green news

Solar

London has UK's lowest levels of solar panel installation

London has ranked the lowest in UK solar panel uptake figures

Plan of Work 2013

Architects hit out at updated Plan of Work for ‘sending the wrong message on sustainability’

In a move to incorporate the Green Overlay to the Plan of Work into the new plan, the RIBA may have missed the boat on sustainability

Green books

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Reader offer: May 2013

Win a copy of Huw Heywood’s 101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture

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Footprint's 5 things to do this week

This week’s events include a talk at the RIBA by Charles Correa and and a debate on sustainability within the creative industries

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