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The Julian Study Centre is a contemporary £6.9million academic building designed by Pick Everard for the University of East Anglia (UEA) opening for the first lecture on 2 December. Set in over 300 acres of parkland, two miles from Norwich city centre, this is the latest and most environmentally advanced of the 57 buildings on campus. Behind a striking, glazed front elevation, complete with pink render, is a sustainable, four-storey, 2000m² building, designed as part…

On 28 November 2013 RICS launched its ‘Think Strategic’ campaign, which will provide free news and advice from industry experts directly to Facilities Management (FM) practitioners. The campaign is designed to encourage FM professionals to think and act more strategically by giving them the tools they need to develop an FM plan that will directly feed into the wider corporate objec-tives of their organisations and clients. As a result, FM leaders will be able to…

The new ‘Guidelines for the design and application of green roof systems’ by Dr Sam C M Hui has been pub-lished by the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). In his foreword, Dr Hui describes how many cities in the world are facing problems of Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) and a lack of green space. Among growing concerns about environmental issues and the need to promote sus-tainable urban environments, green roofs have recently attracted…