Probe 18: Portland Building.

Hampshire County Council has a deservedly high reputation for imaginative, low energy educational buildings. In 1995, County Architect Sir Colin Stansfield-Smith worked his magic for Portsmouth University. Has the mixed mode solution for the Portland Building done the trick?

Test case

What better way for a university to research environment friendly building methods than to build a full scale model on campus?  Helena Russell reports, photographs by Grant Smith.

Lessons in low energy.

              

Educated energy management.

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