Building for sustainability

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A recent conference on sustainable development looked in particular at the features which make buildings successful and ensure that they do not become obsolete as a result of changes in transport, IT and communications technologies. Participants discussed issues including the spread of space-use intensification and diversification, improving building performance and the need for a new infrastructure of buildings and IT. The multi-modal building will play an increasingly important role in space-use intensification.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Sustainable development

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A meeting of the ages: in the re-erection of sixteenth-century Longport House as a working building, historical authenticity meets the Building Regulations

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Longport House, built in the sixteenth century, was dismantled from Folkestone on the site of the Channel Tunnel, and is currently being re-erected at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex. It will become the entrance for the museum and will incorporate a shop and offices. Each brick was coded as it was removed and timbers of the main hall frame, which had been attached by death watch beetle, were dipped in insecticide..

Museums & Art Galleries, Museums, Remodeling and renovation

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