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The Green Building topic area offers you a set of resources to help you keep up to date with the fast-changing world of green construction and sustainable development.

Green building articles

• Eco-minimalism: value for money ways of making buildings energy efficient

  In this exclusive extract from Eco-minimalism: the Antidote to Eco-Bling by Howard Liddell, we introduce a few basic ways to build in energy efficiency.  read more on 'Eco-minimalism: value for money ways of making buildings energy efficient' ...

• Sustainable (Urban) Drainage Systems (SUDS): an introduction

  Traditionally surface water has been removed from built up sites using underground pipe systems, which prevent flooding locally by conveying the water away as quickly as possible. This has led to alterations of natural water flow patterns which, in turn, often lead to problems elsewhere in the catchment area. read more on 'Sustainable (Urban) Drainage Systems (SUDS): an introduction' ...

• BREEAM and the Plan of Work

  Sustainable development is becoming an everyday part of life for property developers, designers and contractors, as many people both inside and outside the construction industry are demanding that the environmental impacts of buildings are kept to a minimum. This article briefly explains the broad principals of BREEAM and how some of the various credits contained within BREEAM schemes relate to the RIBA Plan of Work. read more on 'BREEAM and the Plan of Work' ...

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