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• Breathing Buildings ventilates UK’s first zero-energy retail building 

  Costa’s zero-energy retail building, the first such building in the UK, incorporates a bespoke ventilation solution with a customised control system. Breathing Buildings provided design consultancy and implements for the system at the new ‘eco-pod’ at Wrekin Retail Park, Telford. The object of the project was to build the UK’s first zero-energy retail building whilst ensuring high-quality internal conditions.

• Breathing Buildings wins patent challenge  

  Breathing Buildings, which specialises in natural ventilation, has successfully defended the patent for the Cambridge University passive stack. Filed in 2006 and granted in Europe in 2012, the patent concerns the use of heat gains in a building to make natural ventilation more effective in the winter. The hearing at the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich upheld the patent in its original form and without the need for amendment.

• Warming to natural ventilation 

  One of the challenges of natural ventilation is reducing the expense of tempering cold draughts in winter. Shaun Fitzgerald of Breathing Buildings takes up the subject.

• Ventilation for schools 

  Following its support for the Education Funding Agency (EFA) in the development of the new Priority School Output Specification, natural-ventilation specialist Breathing Buildings has created a guidance paper to help contractors and engineers comply with the new criteria and cost targets. Breathing Buildings supported the EFA in the assessment of ventilation strategies and the review of energy modelling.

• Breathing Buildings wins investment backing  

  Natural-ventilation innovator Breathing Buildings has secured an investment of £400 000 from the Low Carbon Innovation Fund as part of a total funding package worth around £1 million. This fund is managed by green merchant bank Turquoise International, and the investment will support Breathing Buildings as it seeks to commercialise its low-energy ventilation system, which is primarily designed for new buildings.