Better Buildings

Richard Partington is a co-founder and director of Richard Partington Architects. He is a sustainability expert to the Ministerial Advisory Group in Northern Ireland and is a Design Council CAME enabler. He has been a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, UCL, and University of Wales, Cardiff.Simon Bradbury is a lecturer in Sustainable Design at the University of Plymouth. Simon's research focuses on performance in housing and its relationship to socioeconomic constraints, as well as urban systems, sustainable cities and adaptation and mitigation policy.

• Essays 1. Building Performance Evaluation? 2. Learning from the Innovate UK Building Performance Evaluation Programme 3. Low energy buildings: Delivering theory in practice 4. Designing low energy buildings 5. Learning through practice 6. Sustainable buildings a design challenge 7. Energy performance Case Studies Introduction to the case studies 1. Woodlands Trust 2. Greenfields Office 3. John Hope Gateway 4. Crawley library 5. St Lukes School 6. Wilkinson School 7. WWF Headquarters 8. One Brighton 9. Derwenthorpe 10.Lancaster co-housing Conclusion