Case Studies
Outstanding projects highlighting services design and operation
Turning waste into warmth: how data centres can heat tomorrow’s cities
Aecom has helped develop a vast energy centre in West London that will pipe waste heat from data centres into 10,000 new homes and existing businesses…
March 2025
Passivhaus case study: Woodmill High School and St Columba’s RC High School
The UK’s largest Passivhaus education building has operational energy use of just 45kWh·m-² per year. Andy Pearson looks at how the project team optimised performance…
March 2025
Rewriting the rules of retrofit: the Entopia building
The Entopia Building sets a new benchmark for sustainable retrofits. Andy Pearson explores how CIBSE’s 2025 Building Performance Champion used a fabric-first approach to cut whole life carbon…
March 2025
Net zero healing: the NHS National Rehabilitation Centre
The National Rehabilitation Centre near Loughborough is being designed to achieve the new NHS Net Zero Building Standard and be a template for a new generation…
February 2025
A new chapter in façade design: Beijing’s unique new library
A groundbreaking self-supporting glass façade, the tallest of its kind in China, wraps Beijing’s unique new library. Andy Pearson finds out how engineer Eckersley O’Callaghan turned…
January 2025
British Land’s heat pump retrofit at York House
The adoption of energy management standards has been key to enabling British Land to target net zero carbon by 2030 and begin the energy transition…
January 2025
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