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5 October 2011
The four-storey development comprises 50 one and two-bedroom apartments for residents with special care needs, where the on-site amenities include consultancy rooms, activity rooms, communal lounges, a hairdressers, café restaurant, landscaped garden and a waterfall in the reception area.
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09/09/2011
Prefab homes have suffered from a negative image but the latest designs are energy efficient and affordable, making them a much more attractive option. Nick Duxbury reports
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8 June 2011
A pilot scheme to demonstrate how energy-efficient design will play a role in social housing for the future has opened its doors in Glasgow with protection from Glidevale.
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04/11/2011
With the green deal approaching, the use of pioneering eco-technologies in housing is more important than ever before. Here Chloë Stothart reveals the housing providers, developers and architects leading the way
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5 October 2011
The Centre is in the form of two L-shaped buildings in a ‘69’ layout with a central courtyard. One building is two stories high with glass curtain walling. The other is four stories with solid, Thin-Jointed aircrete walls using Celcon Plus blocks 200mm thick. The two buildings take up the whole of the site; there is no landscaping. Half the ground floor is inhabited; the other half is car parking.
