SW-ecowarehouse will give concise advice to would be green builders, however for more comprehensive and generic guidance can be
found in:
The Green Building Bible
Volumes 1 & 2. Both books are available from site member Sustain Cornwall Ltd.
The Cornwall Sustainable Building Guide has been developed in partnership with Cornwall Council and Cornwall Sustainable Building Trust (CSBT). CLICK HERE
Eco Warehouse advice
We present a series of articles, case studies and information sheets which seek to inform and educate you in the world of environmentally friendly building and green living.
Changing weather patterns
Climate change is already causing more severe weather of all extremes and buildings need to be designed to withstand new pressures:
Community integration
Developers should demonstrate that their scheme meets the needs of the local community, which has been involved and consulted during the design process.
Cooling without carbon emissions
Climate Change predicts more hot summers like the 2003 summer that resulted in thousands of older people dying of heat exhaustion. There is already an undeniable need for cooling capacity in buildings. Simplistically this is addressed by air-conditioning but this comes at the price of increased energy use and therefore CO2 emissions. In order to overcome this sustainable building designs need to incorporate thermal mass in their internal surfaces. This can be in the form of dense materials which both absorb and release heat slowly.
Global warming and Climate Change
The scientific consensus is that most of the warming observed in the last fifty years is attributable to human activity, through emissions of greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and methane into the atmosphere. We need to make a profound change in our use of energy and other activities that release these gases.
