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02.02.2021 Public transport use was decimated by Covid
One reason rail and bus travel may never go back to the way it was is that commuters have saved too much money. A commuter travelling from Reading to London, for example, would spend £4,736 on an annual rail season…
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24.11.20 Home movers switch priorities for future needs
A quarter of future home movers in the UK are reconsidering what they want from their next home, with private outdoor space, bigger kitchens and energy efficiency to the fore. Analysis by housebuilder Redrow of more than 2,000 UK adults…
17.11.20 Britain’s biggest businesses will work from home until 2021
More than 20 of the largest firms have no plans to call all workers back with some telling staff to stay away, Telegraph investigation finds. You can read more here. By Hayley Dixon and Dominic Penna, 7 August 2020 Waterloo train station…
11.05.20 Employees happy to keep remote working despite PM’s ease on lockdown restrictions
Following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s addressing the country on the 10/05/2020 in which he has eased some lockdown measures, more than half of employees state they are happy to carry on working from home at least until the end of…
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14.04.20 Sustainability in the Built Environment
The real estate sector is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. According to conservative estimates from the World Economic Forum, the industry consumes 41% of global energy annually and accounts for 20% of international carbon emissions. This presents an…
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23.03.20 PassivPod gains FutureBuild award
PassivPod awarded winner at FutureBuild 2020 for the Offsite Category.
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21.02.20 Furniture Forms and Their Influence on Our Emotional Responses Toward Interior Environments
The existing body of literature suggests that evoking emotions through design provides rich interactions. The authors tested Pleasure and Approach reactions of 111 participants toward two curvilinear and two rectilinear simulated interior settings. The curvilinear forms resulted in significantly stronger…
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