After being charged almost £3 for two small glasses of tap water in the Netherlands Cath investigates the bottled water market and the environmental effects of the industry.
Should you drink bottled water?
Water Efficiency and Drain Carry under the revised Scottish Building Regulations
Cath evaluates the water efficiency requirements in the revised Scottish Building Regulations and welcomes the arrival of a simple and effective way to ensure self-cleansing flow rates in drains.
What’s in a word?
Cath argues that the term ‘blackwater treatment’ is technically incorrect and politically suspect.
The Paris sewers
The sewers in Paris are vastly different in design to those of London, yet both were conceived and built at roughly the same time. Cath highlights the differences and picks her favourite.
Changes to Part G Building Regulations
Green Building Magazine. Cath Hassell casts a critical eye over the revisions to part G of the Building Regulations, especially the requirement for “water smart” new homes.
Water and the Code for Sustainable Homes
The Code for Sustainable Homes is designed to reduce water consumption as well as CO2 emissions from a dwelling. But, as the article explains, this will not necessarily be the outcome in homes built to meet levels 5 and 6. Published in Green Building Magazine.
The Green Electricity Illusion
An analysis of why specifying electric space heating and signing up to a green electricity tariff is one of the poorest design choices an architect can make. Written with David Olivier and published in Building for a Future (now Green Building) magazine, Spring 2006.