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View over small green roof in summer with sedums in flower
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Building your own small Green Roof

Would you like to build your own green roof? In this article we'll take you through how we built our own very small domestic green roof ourselves, including preparation, building it and our planting choices.

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Images of the Supergreen Workplace prototype showing environmental details and planting
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Strategies for designing a prototype 'Supergreen' Workplace

An office design competition sparked our interest in developing a 'supergreen' biophilic workplace prototype, using green walls and plants externally and internally. In this article, we'll cover our design process and details of the planting proposals.

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Image of a street of green walled houses
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Integrating Architecture and Landscape

What happens when you try to combine architecture and landscape? This is the question which has underpinned our design work for several years.  The question might be better framed as ‘why?'

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Sketch exploded isometric drawing and sectional perspective of our industrial retrofit project
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Low Carbon approach to upgrading an Existing Commercial Building

This blog post covers strategies for reusing and upgrading an existing building to suit the needs of a twenty-first century business with a case study.

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Sketch perspective showing heat loss from a typical house
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Sustainably Renovating Existing Homes for Lower Energy Use: Part 1

Why Retrofit existing homes? Low energy retrofitting is the process for upgrading older homes to make them more energy efficient, more sustainable and more comfortable.

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Exploded isometric sketch of external house elements and sections showing internal and external insulation
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Sustainably Renovating Existing Homes for Lower Energy Use: Part 2

Heat loss though the external walls may be a major factor and a big contributor to high utility bills but requires careful consideration of the possible alternatives.

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