A wonderful group of year 6 pupils from Mount Stuart Primary School, Cardiff Bay, visited the Active Office recently. Their visit was part of ENGAGE… Read More »Primary School Pupils Visit the Active Office to Learn about Energy
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
The awards from the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers are the only industry awards that focus on actual, measured performance outcomes, and not just… Read More »Active Office Highly Commended in Project of the Year at the CIBSE Building Performance Awards
We are delighted to announce that the Active Office has won ‘Most Innovative Building Project’ and ‘Most Innovative Public Sector Project’ at the 2021 Building… Read More »Wins for the Active Office at the Building Innovation Awards
The Active Office recently turned 3 years old, and for its birthday it asked for more data charts! In this blog, Data Systems Technician, Luke… Read More »A Year of Lockdown Data at The Active Office
BIPVco is a successful SME specialising in building-integrated photovoltaics. It was founded in 2015, underpinned by SPECIFIC’s research into functional coatings applied to steel construction… Read More »BIPVco: from SPECIFIC Research to Successful Solar SME
In this blog Data Systems Technician, Luke Ardolino, looks at the Active Office energy data at a high level to see what changes have made to our energy usage profile.
We are thrilled to announce that the Active Office has been ‘highly commended’ in its category, ‘Climate Resilience Project of the Year,’ at the British… Read More »Highly Commended at the British Construction Industry Awards
The ‘Active Buildings Toolkit’ has been developed by Design Manager, Joanna Clarke, to share the principles and learnings from the Active Buildings, with the aim of encouraging others to adopt or improve on them and to support wider uptake of low carbon building design.
A Q&A with SPECIFIC’s Technology Director, Dr Justin Searle, on how the Active Office has performed, and what’s next… How has the Active Office run… Read More »The Active Office: One Year On…