The Active Classroom was designed to be disassembled: most of its main components can be taken apart and reused. However, there is still much to… Read More »Using the Active Classroom to Assess Design for Disassembly Buildings
Our new Active Building Guide will help young people to consider the impact of buildings on our climate and the ways in which building design… Read More »New Young Person’s Guide to Active Buildings
In a new paper, Dr Guangling Zhao and colleagues undertook an economic analysis of the Active Office’s building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) and energy storage. It showed… Read More »An Economic Analysis of the Active Office’s Integrated PV and Batteries
SPECIFIC’s Active Classroom has been featured in the first Royal Anniversary Trust report, which outlines an ambitious roadmap for decarbonising the tertiary education sector. Swansea… Read More »SPECIFIC featured in flagship Net Zero report
As world leaders convened in Sharm El-Sheikh for COP27, it was fantastic to take part in the Active Building Centre Showcase event which had a… Read More »The Active Building Centre Showcase Demonstrated the Need and Opportunity For Delivering Low Carbon Buildings
We will soon have to say a fond farewell to our Active Classroom on the Swansea University Bay Campus. But this won’t be the end… Read More »The Future of the Active Classroom: Deconstructability of Buildings for a Circular Economy
A village in rural India will now get clean, reliable electricity for the first time, thanks to SUNRISE‘s newly opened Active Building, similar to our… Read More »The Solar OASIS: Clean, green, reliable electricity for village as first Active Building in India opens
We have launched a new 3-year collaboration with Tata Steel UK to advance the development of solar roofing panels that can be printed onto the… Read More »Accelerating Active Building Technology – A New Collaboration with Tata Steel
The SEISMIC project has launched its new demonstrator building, showing how its approach to platform-based construction can exceed Construction 2025 targets in delivery, carbon, and… Read More »New SEISMIC Demonstrator Building Exceeds Construction 2025 Targets in Delivery, Carbon, and Cost
Construction has started on a new Active Building demonstrator in the village of Khuded in Maharahstra, India. The solar-powered building is based on the Active… Read More »Work Begins on the SUNRISE Project’s Active Building in India