Better Buildings: Learning from buildings in use

Richard Partington is a co-founder and director of Richard Partington Architects. He is a sustainability expert to the Ministerial Advisory Group in Northern Ireland and is a Design Council CAME enabler. He has been a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, UCL, and University of Wales, Cardiff. Simon Bradbury is a lecturer in Sustainable Design at the University of Plymouth. Simon's research focuses on performance in housing and its relationship to socio-economic constraints, as well as urban systems, sustainable cities and adaptation and mitigation policy.

Introduction Essays: 1. Building Performance Evaluation? - Richard Partington 2. Learning from the Innovate UK Building Performance Evaluation Programme - Tom Kordel 3. Low energy buildings: Delivering theory in practice - Bill Gething 4. Designing low energy buildings - Simon Bradbury 5. Learning through practice - Mark Lumley 6. Sustainable buildings a design challenge - Judit Kimpian 7. Energy performance - Bill Bordass Case Studies: Introduction to the case studies 1. Woodlands Trust 2. Greenfields Office 3. John Hope Gateway 4. Crawley library 5. St Lukes School 6. Wilkinson School 7. WWF Headquarters 8. One Brighton 9. Derwenthorpe 10.Lancaster co-housing Conclusion