Renewable energy breakthrough converts light into electricity Looking through glass that charges your carDeveloped by tech start-up Physee, a spin-off from Holland’s Technical University of Delft, windows covered with a transparent luminescent coating to convert 30% of light normally reflected from the surface into invisible light is collected and converted via solar cell strips inside […]
Archives for December 2016
80 Storey Timber Tower for Barbican
PLP Architecture’s Proven Concept Second Tallest Building to ShardResearch by Cambridge University, PLP Architecture and structural engineers Smith & Wallwork has presented London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, with conceptual plans for an 80-storey, 300m high wooden tower for the Barbican complex. The proposals make it the second tallest building in London after The Shard.Engineering and […]
Willmott Dixon goes for Timber Frame
… and targets 1,000 off-site homes a year “Off-site” to provide long term protectionBy strengthening its offsite capabilities to reduce reliance on onsite trades, Willmott Dixon aims to shore up the future of its residential construction businessThree Year Deal to secure future build programmeThe contractor has inked a three-year deal with suppliers for timber frame […]
