ABSTRACT
One of the best ways to understand and see the benefits of green building is to visit or read about examples. Each will illustrate a range of attempts to achieve green results. In most cases, good designers will make it clear that they have not been able to achieve everything that they intended and that the building may not be as green as they like. This is not surprising when green building is such a new idea. Each new project allows the boat to be pushed out a little further and experimental techniques to be tried and tested. Gradually the accumulation of knowledge and experience will make it easier to improve good practice in the future. We have selected a handful of buildings which show a range of green building ideas in practice. Only a brief account is given of each project, though future editions of the Digest may include more detailed case studies and working drawings. There are many other examples of green buildings, not illustrated here both in the UK and further afield and the potential green builder will need to learn from a wide range of examples to see all possible approaches and techniques tried out.
