| One of the new variants to have come to the | | | | not have an important and even significant role to |
| forefront in just the last couple of years not only in | | | | play in helping to reduce buildings energy consumption |
| building design in Chester, but across the globe is the | | | | and green house gas emissions. |
| concept of "green" buildings. Only a couple of | | | | These experts need to carefully consider every |
| decades ago if you had said to someone that you | | | | aspect of a new buildings design not only in |
| were designing a green building they would have | | | | reference to the energy usage of the completed |
| assumed that you were going to use an army of | | | | structure they also have to consider just how green |
| painters to produce some ugly grass coloured | | | | are the materials used in construction. Many oil |
| monstrosity to blight the landscape. | | | | consuming CFC producing plastics are being |
| Things have changed very rapidly in building design | | | | abandoned in favour of alternative materials that had |
| and "green" building issues are now firmly at the front | | | | never been considered in British building before such |
| of any designers, architects, urban planners and the | | | | as fast growing bamboo. |
| general publics minds. Green building is now seen as | | | | Building design in Chester is now starting to |
| essential to structural engineering in Chester. | | | | incorporate such features as solar panels for heating |
| The need for an open mind when building a structure | | | | water supplies. New window and ventilation systems |
| is now needed to help save valuable and increasingly | | | | are being installed to maximize airflow which can |
| expensive fuel, it is also important to reduce the | | | | dramatically help to cool buildings in the summer |
| amount of energy that is lost though bad design and | | | | saving on fuel to cool the internal areas, especially in |
| poor insulation features. Quite often with just a little | | | | large interior open spaces. |
| consideration new building design in Chester can be | | | | Structural engineering in Chester is certainly making |
| adjusted to meet these energy and climate changing | | | | every effort to keep pace with its big city |
| requirements. | | | | counterparts and is at the same time helping to build |
| Just because Chester is not one of the worlds | | | | a greener architectural environment for Chester and |
| megacities it does not mean that the local community | | | | its inhabitants to enjoy, with the knowledge that |
| through its local authority planners and local architects | | | | everything possible is being done to help secure the |
| and experts in structural engineering in Chester do | | | | future for Chester's next generation of inhabitants. |