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Environmental Policy
01-Oct-07 23:07
PRP are committed to: environmentally responsible design and specification of our clients’ buildings;: environmentally responsible day-to-day operation of the Practice and the buildings we occupy;: compliance with applicable legal requirements and other requirements to which we subscribe and which relate to our environmental aspects;: prevention of pollution from ou...
PRP Carbon Challenge Design Competition 2007
03-Sep-07 23:07
The competition, Carbon Challenge 2007 – the second in a series of annual design competitions held at PRP to respond to industry issues – shows new approaches by PRP’s architects that include embodied energy and solar gain, currently not part of the calculation of carbon neutrality. Many of the schemes also acknowledge the importance of generating renewable energy for a w...
Drawing Lessons for Brent: A report on quality in recent high density, mixed tenure housing
01-Sep-07 23:08
The Joint Commissioning Partnership in Brent, a body comprising housing associations and the Council, commissioned this study to draw lessons from existing higher density housing to inform the proposed revision to SP17 on residential design in the Local Plan for Brent. The challenge is to provide family flats that will last, and it has become necessary to test whether design standards ap...
Recommendations For Living at Superdensity
02-Jul-07 23:12
PRP has been collaborating with HTA, Levitt Bernstein and PTE to achieve a consensus between our four leading practices on the factors for success for residential development above the historic benchmark of 150 dwellings per hectare. The report, Recommendations for Living at Superdensity, was being provided to Building’s 25,000 readership. We have pooled knowledge to assess how this thr...
Code for Sustainable Homes
01-Jul-07 23:12
The code for sustainable homes, the governments first environmental assessment method and their blueprint for future residential development in this country, came into force on 10 April 2007. Download PDF...
Callcutt Review, our response
01-Feb-07 23:14
Government Efforts to accelerate the supply of new housing and to build sustainable communities have run up against a series of barriers, which have led to calls for a ‘step change’ and for a different business model. The reasons for the UK’s poor performance have been well-documented in national reports such as the Barker Review, and do not need to be repeated. What is n...
Place & Home
01-Feb-07 23:13
Place & Home explores the full scope of PRP’s important and innovative work — from the firm’s first major commission, The Ryde at Hatfield (which won a Housing Design Historic Award in 2006), and their particular involvement in the post-war rebuilding of Britain — right up to their most recent projects, including the recent redevelopment of the St Matthews Estate in Bri...
Corporate Social Responsibility
26-Jan-07 23:14
In an effort to consider not just the economic impact of our activities, but also take into account our social and environmental impact as well, we have launched our first corporate and social responsibility (CSR) report. We have called it Vision, Values & Responsibility 2007 and plan to produce this every two years. Since our formation in 1963, PRP is now a large limited company ...
