Sustainability in Development

Green respite

From the grand landscaped drive leading to the main entrance, the library spaces, spa facilities, pocket gardens, and individual apartments to the detail of textured wallpapers and bespoke primrose-motif door handles, Squire and Partners’ architecture, landscape and interiors teams have worked together to craft a high quality development that provides effortless elegant living for the residents of 50 St Edmund’s Terrace.

Tom Luck, Sustainability Consultant at Eight Associates talks to Future Constructor & Architect about how protected trees can potentially extend design proposals.

Simply put, sustainability is the capacity to endure. Yet, we live in an age of greenwash marketing where a cacophony of ‘sustainababble’ has undermined the sustainable concept. Darren Evans of Darren Evans Assessments explains more.

When Tom Hogg commissioned a new £6m office building and data centre for his software firm CDL, he handed Edge Architects a sustainability brief with standards that exceeded those demanded by current building regulations.

As one door closes, another opens. Or, in the case of Sunderland College, as one building at the end of its lifespan is demolished, two state-of-the-art buildings are created to replace it.

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