10th April 2012
Building4Change
XCO2 Energy provide low energy solutions for south east London's Greenwich Millenuim Villiage.
8th February 2012
BRE Passivhaus Competition Win (PDF)
XCO2 Energy was part of the winning team in the competition to build a demonstration passivhaus at the BRE Innovation Park in Watford.
16th December 2011
XCO2e on BD Magazine (PDF)
XCO2 Energy's Retrofit for the Future project with Penoyre&Prasad featured on BD.
5th December 2011
NPPF Piece (PDF)
A piece on the NPPF by XCO2 Energy's Ricardo Moreira featured on the CarbonBuzz newsletter.
11th November 2011
3R Awards Win
XCO2 Energy's Retrofit for the Future project with Penoyre&Prasad wins Refurb Rethink Retrofit award.
23rd September 2011
CarbonBuzz latest
Latest CarbonBuzz newsletter
5th August 2011
Footprint
XCO2 Energy's Retrofit for the Future project featured on AJ's Footprint blog.
5th July 2011
BAM News
As part of a team led by BAM Construct UK, XCO2 Energy were successful in achieving funding via the Technology Strategy Board Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) competition. Over the next two years, we will carry BPE studies on two schools in the UK.
22nd September 2010
Architecture Kenya
"The Mombasa Beach Front Will Never be the Same Again"
19th August 2010
Building Performance Evaluators
Two XCO2 Energy employees have been appointed as expert building performance evaluators to the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), to carry out initial studies and provide guidance to project teams looking to submit applications.
1st March 2010
Retrofit for the Future
XCO2 Energy's successful bid for this pilot scheme aiming to develop whole-house retrofit solutions in the social housing sector.
2nd February 2010
CarbonBuzz Awarded TSB Funding (doc)
XCO2 Energy is one of the partners developing this online platform to engage industry and government with closing the gap between forecast and actual CO2 emissions.
6th January 2010
Conde Nast Traveller (PDF)
"Tread Softly"
22th December 2009
TCPA EcoTowns Energy Worksheets(PDF)
XCO2e contributes to this TCPA document for local authorities.
28th October 2009
Brazil-UK Conference on Sustainabile Construction (Portuguese)
XCO2 Energy confirmed as one of the speakers in this international conference in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
1st May 2009
Building Sustainable Design (PDF)
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
CarbonBuzz
“Carbon Buzz goes live”
1st November 2008
British Airways Highlife (PDF)
“Going the extra green mile”
10th October 2008
Architects Journal
Carbon Buzz, “Carbon Buzz workshop at RIBA”
2nd October 2008
Building Services Journal (PDF)
"CarbonBuzz: RIBA/CIBSE energy benchmarking website";
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.
6th March 2008
Portal Ambiente (Portuguese)
Feature on XCO2 Energy's strategy for the Corte Velho Resort, Algarve.