Sustainable Building links

• Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) (www.aecb.net) - independent environmental building trade organisation for UK.
• Building Research Establishment (BRE) (www.bre.co.uk) - includes ‘Centre for Sustainable Construction’ providing expertise that can be used to help you reduce environmental impact and associated costs spanning the whole life cycle of a building.
• Construction Best Practice Programme (www.cbpp.org.uk)
• Construction Resources (www.ecoconstruct.com) - An eco-building merchant 
• Dwell Well (www.dwellwell.org) – A campaign for beautiful human habitats in harmony with nature
• Earthship Biotecure Europe (www.earthship.co.uk) is a social enterprise set up to enable the further evolution of the Earthship building concept in Europe.
• Forestry Stewardship Council (www.fsc-uk.org)  
• Frog (www.frog.uk.com) - provide robust, solid and durable zero carbon detached homes.
• Green Builder (www.greenbuilder.co.uk) - links to matters of green building interest in the UK.
• Green Building Bible (www.greenbuildingbible.co.uk) - Excellent publication to help you create ecological homes and buildings.
• Green Building Store (www.greenbuildingstore.co.uk) - An eco-building merchant
• Green Refurb Ltd (www.greenrefurb.co.uk) - aim to improve energy efficiency and minimise the environmental impact of existing property stock.
• Green Shop (www.greenshop.co.uk) - Sell a wide range of eco-building and household products. Based in a biodiesel-selling garage near Stroud, Glos.
• Green Moves (www.greenmoves.co.uk) - dedicated to advertising homes for sale that are more energy efficient than conventional homes.
• GreenSpec (www.greenspec.co.uk) - Encyclopedia of sustainable construction including: product pages, specifications, material property comparisons, design guidance, renewable services guides, whole life cost data, image bank, diary, CPD, bibliography, etc.
• Low Energy House (www.lowenergyhouse.com) - provides an introduction to the principles of low energy house design.
• Natural Building Technologies (www.natural-building.co.uk) - An eco-building merchant
• Straw bale building (www.strawbale-building.co.uk)
• Straw bale Building Association (www.strawbalebuildingassociation.org.uk)
• Sustainable Developer Guide for Nottinghamshire (www.sdg-nottinghamshire.org.uk) - The Sustainable Developer Guide is intended as a useful resource for anyone involved in the development process. Its main focus is on planning and design, but it also offers advice about the construction and maintenance of buildings and considers how the wider impacts of development can be managed (HHP was involved in developing the content for the Guide).
• Sustainable Homes (www.sustainablehomes.co.uk) - Sustainable Homes promotes awareness of sustainable development issues and good practice, and encourages housing associations and other registered social landlords to adopt environment friendly policies and practices.
• Sustainability Works (www.sustainabilityworks.org.uk) - includes section on building.
• The Good Homes Alliance (www.goodhomes.org.uk) - A group of housing developers, building professionals and sustainability experts, whose aim is to build and promote sustainable homes and communities, and to transform the whole of mainstream UK house building into a sustainable endeavour.
• Timber Recycling Information Centre (www.recycle-it.org)
• Walter Segal Self Build Trust (www.segalselfbuild.co.uk)
• ZED Factory (www.zedfactory.com) - a range of tools to support sustainable development schemes, including: design, product specification, best value for appropriate products, and use of tried and tested innovative environmental technologies.