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Bill Dunster will be back at Ecobuild to show the very latest in his eco housing stable - a straw board home that can be built for £135,000; £20,000 less than the normal cost of constructing a code level 6 house.
The StramitZED house is a joint venture between ZEDfactory and Stramit Technology Group. The straw boards are combined with timber and insulation from recycled newspaper and made into cassettes to build the homes. They will be marketed to developers, housing associations and self-builders.
Modcell’s Renewable retail solution aims to resolve the heat energy battle being fought in supermarkets, to keep customers warm and produce cool.
Using prefabricated panels fabricated from straw bales to build super-insulated, high-performance and low energy ‘passive’ buildings, Modcell’s Renewable retail delivers a turnkey building solution that reduces energy, saves money and carbon emissions, and allows shorter build times.
Ecobuild’s new home, London’s ExCeL, has been voted the world’s best exhibition and conference centre at the recent World Travel Awards.
In order to qualify for the title, ExCeL had to undergo a rigorous assessment that graded every aspect of the venue, from its facilities to customer service.
And the venue has been shortlisted for further awards, including Sustainable Tourism, and Business Venue of the Year, due to be announced on Wednesday 08 December at the Visit London awards.
The BREEAM Awards return to Ecobuild again in 2011 to recognise the highest scoring buildings under BREEAM.
Independently assessed, and representing genuinely sustainable buildings, categories for the 2011 awards will include best buildings in the office sector, education, health and residential, as well as more specialist buildings including prisons, courts, data-centres, multi-residential buildings and leisure. There will also be a number of international awards, reflecting BREEAM's growth outside the UK, and special awards for the management of existing buildings (BREEAM In-Use) and the Government sector.
The BREEAM awards will take place at 18.00 on Wednesday 02 March in the Platinum Suite, level 1.
The centrepiece of Boris Johnson’s green enterprise district has been given the go ahead by Newham Council. The £30m Siemens Pavilion exhibition and conference centre west of the Royal Victoria Dock and near neighbour to Ecobuild’s new home, ExCeL, will become the flagship of Johnson’s Green Enterprise District which aims to create up to 6,000 jobs and develop low carbon skills and technologies.
Plans for a cable car that will link ExCeL to North Greenwich have also been mooted. When operational, the cable car would be able to carry 2,500 passengers an hour between the sites.
At Ecobuild on Wednesday 02 March, ‘Rock star physicist’ Professor Brian Cox will be presenting an award to the winner of the CIOB’s Inner Space 2050 competition for students aged 11 – 12 years to design sustainable work and living spaces in orbit.
Brian Cox asks Can science save us? in the Ecobuild conference
Ecobuild’s free conference expands to three streams in 2011 – Making sustainable construction happen, Beyond construction: achieving a sustainable future and Design, architecture and sustainability – and has already attracted some of the biggest names from across the sector, and beyond.
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The winning entry in TRADA’s competition for students at Oxford Brookes University School of Architecture will be displayed at Ecobuild.
Students were encouraged to experiment with form and space, and tasked to design a timber pavilion with a footprint of 20 sq. metres which would exploit timber’s architectural, aesthetic, structural and sustainable attributes.
The winning entry will then be constructed off-site for installation at Ecobuild 2011, with support from TRADA and engineering support and materials provided by Timbmet, and will showcase 3D models of all the shortlisted entries.
There are more than 130 free seminars at Ecobuild 2011, all offering practical advice and achievable solutions, and complementing Ecobuild’s dozen or more hands-on attractions and live demonstrations that take place on the exhibition floor.
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Ecobuild’s move to ExCeL has fuelled an increase in the number of exhibitors at Ecobuild 2011. More than 1,300 suppliers will exhibit, with many taking advantage of the extra space at the new venue to expand the range of products on display.
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UK architectural students are being invited to take part in an international competition to design an energy efficient New York skyscraper according to the Isover Multi-Comfort House definition, and with Passive House components. The UK finals of the competition will be judged at Ecobuild 2011 – where visitors will be able to attend presentations of the entries and see models of the students’ schemes in situ at the site in Greenwich Village – after which the top three entries go on to compete in the final in Prague next May.
The Technology Strategy Board, Modern Built Environment KTN and EPSRC are joining forces to bring their Innovation future zone competition back to Ecobuild for a second year. The Zone will showcase shortlisted entries of new or near-to-market technologies relevant to the priority areas of energy efficiency, refurbishment, climate change adaptation and process efficiency, and the winning entry will be announced on the final day of Ecobuild.
Kingston University will be launching Rematerialise at Ecobuild, their library of 1,200 samples of sustainable materials that use fewer virgin resources, and that are easily renewed. Rematerialise will also bring to designers’ attention sustainable materials used in other sectors but little used in design and construction.
Part of the collection – including finished products manufactured from sustainable materials - will be showcased at Ecobuild with the intention of inspiring further collaboration between academia and industry, such as Kingston’s recent project advising Marks & 
Spencer plc on the use of appropriate sustainable materials for their new headquarters.
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