LOW CARBON BUILDINGS DIRECTORY

is an online educational tool designed to build a new alliance of professional organisations, academics and practitioners who are willing to share knowledge and experience relating to the design and operational performance of low carbon buildings. Welcome.

  • Delivering Zero Carbon Schools in PFI Environment

    speaker: Gordon Hudson

    Gordon Hudson is a technical director at Mott MacDonald responsible for building services design, sustainability and development. He has been involved in benchmarking sustainable design for the last six years both as a practitioner and researcher. Gordon was a lead researcher for the NHS estates project "Incorporating a sustainable dimension in primary health care". This work led to further involvement with the Sustainable Development Commission and the NHS Alliance. Gordon was among the first BREEAM for schools assessors in the UK and has provide advice on a number of PFI schools projects. Gordon was principal author and lead researcher for the Scottish Executive funded project "Optimising the Internal Environment", this schools design...

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    Delivering Zero Carbon Schools in PFI Environment
    Delivering Zero Carbon Schools in PFI Environment

  • Defining Intelligent School Buildings

    speaker: Professor Derek Clements Croome, Reading University

    Emeritus Professor Derek Clements-Croome held the Chair of Construction Engineering in the School of Construction Management and Engineering at Reading University. He is a Co-Director and founder of MSc Intelligent Buildings Course at the University of Reading where he is also a Director of the Intelligent Buildings Research Group. His research is published in two books of importance for this project: Creating the Productive Workplace (Routledge, 2005), and Intelligent Buildings: Design, Management and Operation (Thomas Telford, 2004) which became available also in Chinese. Professor Clements-Croome is Vice-President of the Chartered Institution of Building Service Engineers). As a member of EPSRC College he has sat on various EPSRC and ESRC research panels. ...

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    Defining Intelligent School Buildings
    Defining Intelligent School Buildings

  • Sharing Energy Supply and Low Carbon Energy Supply

    speaker: Dr Andrew Wright, IESD, De Montfort University

    Andrew Wright is a Senior Research Fellow with particular interests in energy use in buildings, weather and climate change, who joined the...

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    Sharing Energy Supply and Low Carbon Energy Supply
    Sharing Energy Supply and Low Carbon Energy Supply