The “green” Premier Inn hotel and adjacent low-carbon Beefeater restaurant are currently under construction in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, and are getting ready to open. Whitbread’s head of energy & environment, Chris George, explains why the building could set new industry standards for sustainable design and construction in the budget hotel sector. Source: Edie.net

Green buildings are popping up all over Istanbul in a bid to stay ahead in the future energy game, whilst drawing lessons from the past on how to design buildings to stay cool without using energy. Source: CNN

London gets its first solar-tiled church, as work is completed at St Silas in Pentonville. Most of the church’s south-facing roof has been covered with specially-manufactured photo-voltaic tiles, designed to blend in with the surrounding Welsh slate. Source: Edie