Case Studies
Outstanding projects highlighting services design and operation
A new chapter on solar heat at the British Library
The British Library’s ambitious decarbonisation strategy starts with energy reduction at its Grade I-listed archive in King’s Cross. Alex Smith looks at a solar heating…
May 2025
Dancing on air: designing Sadler’s Wells East
In contemporary dance performance, attention to detail is everything – nothing should break the connection between the dancer and the audience, including the background hum…
May 2025
Tapping into efficiency: Passivhaus school’s point-of-use water heaters
At the Passivhaus-accredited Riverside Primary School in Perth, Scotland, the selection of point-of-use water heaters played a key role in driving down energy use. Baxi’s…
March 2025
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
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