The environmental building

Focuses on a new, low‐energy, environmentally advanced building at the Building Research Establishment’s (BRE’s) site near Watford, UK. Notes that the building is part of an ongoing project between BRE, designers, manufacturers and other building professionals to investigate comfortable and healthy workplaces for the next century. Five monitoring programmes are presently under way. Describes the building’s innovative design, its computerised management system and the use of recycled materials in its construction.