Arkitrek needs engineers for our Volunteer Program. We've got biogas digesters, constructed wetlands, bio-crete materials testing, sand filters, pico-hydro turbines, groundwater resource assessments, electrical loading assessments, payback calculations for renewable energy, mechanical ventilation systems etc etc. All of which would benefit from more engineering rigour in design, commissioning and monitoring. There's only so much an architect's brain can handle and only so long a client is prepared to put up with the trial...

A mini Eden Project is nearing completion in Kota Kinabalu and it’s putting some green into aquarium design. Having being originally conceived as Aquatica KK, The Green Connection as it is now known is due to open early 2009. Green Connection’s founder Prof. Steve Oakley is a bit of a hippie at heart and in true hippie style has decided to DIY (Do It Yourself!) a top class aquarium using ‘green’ building principles. “Green Connection is now much more than an aquarium” Steve elaborated on the change of name, “we...