Confusion abounds as to how our buildings might need to be re-designed to acheive the government’s target of ‘zero carbon’ by 2016. Certainly, looking at some of the other trade magazines and the way in which some of the run-of-the-mill products (and whole buildings for that matter) are already being re-branded as ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘zero carbon’, you could be forgiven for believing that little more actually needs to be done, other than the application of some imaginative PR. However, most readers of this magazine know better and are taking the challenge very seriously.

Features in this issue Greenrush - green building organisations in the spotlight. Fresh hope - for green housebuilders Zero carbon - is it just a big red herring?

Main feature building elements - walls Real world walls Heavyweight or hybrid Modelling - to assess the benefits of thermal mass SIPs - factory fabrication beats on-site vagaries Earthships Eco-pads - old tyres for new rotating mansion Hybrid walls - straw and timber Cob - a material for future walls?

Other subject Scottish timberbuild - return of the forests Transition towns - after peak oil The forum debate - multi-foil insulation Low impact living - in a woodland dwelling Don’t forget - the garden

Products and services building services and renewables building with biomass

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