Sustaining Tower Blocks LINKS




Links
Refurbishment
Improving quality & affordability of high rise tower Canadian website on high rise residential towers http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/imquaf/himu/ Regen Link Regeneration in social housing in Europe http://www.stbs.pl/Regen_Link Green street Contains detailed information and advice on why and how to take action to improve the environmental performance of your homes http://www.greenstreet.org.uk
Assessments
EcoHomes EcoHomes is the homes version of BREEAM http://products.bre.co.uk/breeam/ecohomes.html Envest Software tool for estimating the lifecycle environmental impacts of a building www.bre.co.uk/envest Decent homes standard Website of Office of Deputy Prime Ministers http://www.odpm.gov.uk/stellent/groups/odpm_housing/documents/page/odpm_house_602095.hcsp
Sustainability
NSTBI -Streets in the Sky report Report seeks to identify the social issues that must be tackled and the problems http://www.towerblocks.org.uk/html_report/ Green Building Press Latest information on green, healthy and sustainable buildings. http://www.newbuilder.co.uk London Remade Recycling programme to increase markets for recycled products and driving the development of recycling supply chain http://www.londonremade.com Centre for Spatially Integrated Social Science 1980s on space configuration in high-rise blocks http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/41 National Green Specification Downloadable NBS compatible specification preliminaries, work sections and clauses http://www.greenspec.co.uk/ Routes to sustainability identify support that helps you achieve more sustainable housing http://www.routestosustainability.org.uk Independent living in later life Research aimed at discovering the forms of support, that enable older people to maintain their independence. http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rports2003-2004/rrep216.asp
Press articles
High on ambition http://society.guardian.co.uk/societyguardian/story/0,7843,387004,00.html Urban architects reach for the sky http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,493033,00.html Huge bills over right-to-buy flats in tower blocks http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/01/nflat01.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/01/ixhome.html Rooftop Revolution - Russia http://www.tve.org/ho/doc.cfm?aid=1400&lang=English High rise living: a cut above the rest? http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/features/2004/03/01/high_rise.shtml
Tall buildings
Tall Buildings: Vision of the Future or Victims of the Past? www.lse.ac.uk/collections/cities/pdf/tall_buildings.pdf Guidance on tall buildings Sets out how CABE and English Heritage will evaluate proposals for tall buildings www.cabe.org.uk/pdf/Guidance%20%20on%20tal%20buildings%202003.pdf Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat an international organization sponsored by architectural, engineering, planning, and construction professionals http://www.lehigh.edu/~inctbuh/inctbuh.html Trellick Tower The tower of terror www.open2.net/modernity/3_14.htm
Technologies
Wind integrated built environment demonstration of wind turbines in urban areas http://www.bdsp.com/web/ Building Integrated Photovoltaic Field Trial Programme supporting the installation of PV systems in fourteen large buildings throughout the UK www.dti.gov.uk/energy/renewables/publications/pdfs/pvlsftnews2.pdf Failure of Brick Facing on High-Rise Buildings http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cbd/cbd185e.html Healthy High Rise A Guide to Innovation in the Design and Construction of High-Rise Residential Buildings http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/imquaf/himu/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=39199
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