{"id":583,"date":"2011-09-27T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2011-09-27T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:07:48","slug":"do-green-buildings-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/do-green-buildings-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Green buildings actually work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are green buildings actually genuine or is it just lip service to get the planning?<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-583 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/do-green-buildings-actually-work\/strata-medium\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Strata-Medium-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Strata, Elephant and Castle\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-586\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-586'>\n\t\t\t\tStrata, Elephant and Castle\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/do-green-buildings-actually-work\/telehouse-west-medium\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/telehouse-west-Medium-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Telehouse West, Docklands\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-585\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-585'>\n\t\t\t\tTelehouse West, Docklands\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/do-green-buildings-actually-work\/kinetica-medium\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/kinetica-Medium-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Kinetica building, Dalston\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-584\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-584'>\n\t\t\t\tKinetica, Dalston\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I go past the Strata building in Elephant and Castle regularly and have never once seen the wind turbines going round.<\/p>\n<p>The Telehouse West datacentre was hailed at &#8220;Green&#8221; during it&#8217;s construction but according to the press, the electricty from it&#8217;s solar panels only goes to provide charging facilities onsite for non-existent electric cars, and it&#8217;s heat exchange service ends at the site perimeter with no local housing within practical distance.<\/p>\n<p>The Kinetica building I passed by on Sunday at <a title=\"UpRise\" href=\"http:\/\/uprise.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dalston&#8217;s Uprise festival<\/a> and again no sign of the turbines moving despite the moderate wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are green buildings actually genuine or is it just lip service to get the planning? I go past the Strata building in Elephant and Castle regularly and have never once seen the wind turbines going round. The Telehouse West datacentre was hailed at &#8220;Green&#8221; during it&#8217;s construction but according to the press, the electricty from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/do-green-buildings-actually-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do Green buildings actually work?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[150,146,147,148,149],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-eco","tag-energy","tag-green","tag-turbine","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}