1st May 2009
Building Sustainable Design
XCO2 Energy’s Tom Kordel comments on Tories’ CRC proposal.
19th November 2008
Grounds for Optimism
100 schools now registered to take part in the programme
XCO2 Energy is one of the partners in this initiative to help secondary schools in the UK plan innovative changes to their grounds. We will be the judges to their Green Award and will provide a free energy audit for the winning school.
5th November 2008
Carbon Buzz
“Carbon Buzz goes live”
1st November 2008
British Airways Highlife
“Going the extra green mile”
10th October 2008
Architects Journal
Carbon Buzz, “Carbon Buzz workshop at RIBA”
2nd October 2008
Building Services Journal
Carbon Buzz, “Carbon Buzz explained”
Carbon Buzz is a RIBA and CIBSE tool to catalogue energy use and CO2 emissions from buildings in a central database. It will encourage design teams to log both design and operational performance data, leading to more accurate benchmarking in the future, in addition to raising awareness of carbon in the architectural profession. XCO2 Energy has been an original collaborator and provider of technical input for the initiative.
7th June 2008
The Times
“Resort aims for Maldives eco rescue”
31st May 2008
The Pylon, “The first Birmingham climate change festival begins”
XCO2 Energy worked with Block Architecture and Packman Lucas to win the CABE competition to design the centrepiece for the Birmingham Climate Change Festival in June 2008. The 29m high pylon acts a visual representation of energy infrastructure within a city centre environment, where it is all too easy to forget the impact of switching on a plug socket. The pylon provokes discussion on local energy generation, the national electricity grid, the visibility of our impacts and cradle-to-cradle design.
8th May 2008
Architects Journal(PDF)
BREEAM, “A better BREEAM standard could have a global application”
The 2008 edition of BREEAM for non-domestic buildings is released in August 2008. Tom Kordel explains why the update is taking place, what it includes and the similarities with the US certification system LEED.
20th March 2008
Architects Journal (PDF)
Aedas Green Book, “Sustainability in Practice”
This article explains how we have helped Aedas, the fourth largest architecture company in the world, introduce sustainability in their practice by assessing the carbon footprint of their projects and operations and implementing a strategy for emissions reduction.