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Welcome to Sustaining Towers, an interactive web site which can provide you with practical advice on refurbishing tower blocks.

Our aim is to facilitate the regeneration of the 3000+ residential high rise blocks in the UK with proposals for sustainable solutions integrating environmental, social and economic criteria.

 

The Design Guide found on this website is an interactive tool that you can use to obtain sustainable refurbishment solutions tailored to the particular issues of a specific tower block. The design guide also acts as a checklist for you to review as an outline of typical issues that arise with tower blocks. The Design Guide offers approximate costs for sustainable strategies, so that you can appreciate the economic benefits and compare the investment cost of varying solutions.

    

 DESIGN OPTIONS
   

■ Building roof

■ Building facade

■ Entrance and security

■ Lifts

■ Lobby and corridors

■ Flat layout

■ Heating and hot water

■ Electrical and IT

■ Ventilation

■ Water supply

■ Waste management

■ Site and surroundings
 ■ Landscape and microclimate

■ Tenants and management

  

REFURBISHMENT PROCESS

 
Sustaining Tower Blocks
    

■ CONSULTATION

■ FUNDING

■ DECANTING

        

For information on direct design support for housing refurbishment projects, please visit our consultancy website:

www.pricemyers.com

 

BACKGROUND

          

■ WHY REFURBISH ?

■ HISTORY OF TOWER BLOCKS

■ PRESENT CONTEXT

■ CASE STUDIES

■ LINKS

      

Supported by:

 

Project partners:           | Price Myers: Sustainability |Battle McCarthy | Architype | STBI | Franklin Andrews |            

           

Copyright 2004  Price & Myers Sustainability                                 last updated: 04/06/05

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