Designing Social Value – Page 8
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from measuring embodied carbon?
Why isn’t an embodied carbon assessment done as standard on every project, asks engineer Anna Beckett
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NewsArup pledges lifecycle carbon assessments on all projects
Firm also pledges to withdraw from energy schemes involving fossil fuels
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NewsAHMM drafts gender equality champion on to controversial Holloway project
Architect submits revised 980-home prison redevelopment to Islington council
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NewsOxford Uni launches international design contest for £1bn northern expansion
Established architects encouraged to team up with small practices
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from reusing materials?
In the first of a new series, engineer Anna Beckett shows how some fresh thinking could solve apparently intractable issues
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NewsMake net zero buildings the only ones worth building, architects tell COP
’Whole system stacked against doing the right thing’
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FeaturesInnovative energy-saving buildings carry a heavy carbon cost
The failure to take embodied carbon seriously will have far-reaching consequences, writes Anthony Thistleton
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NewsIndustry to world leaders: We stand ready – but your inaction is holding us back
Built environment unites to present urgent demands at COP summit
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NewsMore than 95% of firms support mandatory carbon calculations
Survey finds overwhelming majority of industry thinks whole life carbon calculations should determine whether projects get planning
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NewsArchitects Declare publishes guide to making practices and projects net-zero
Climate movement wants to make sharing best practice easy
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NewsAllford endorses MPs’ call for net zero to be placed at heart of planning policy
Government will fail to hit 2050 net zero target unless it engages with councils, says select committee chair
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MultimediaWatch: Michael Squire on designing social value
Squire & Partners founder discusses the process of designing the practice’s new office
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FeaturesCountdown to COP26: We need a wholesale transformation of almost every aspect of society
Building the necessary political pressure to change the world will not be done simply by pitching good ideas, says Tom Bennett
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NewsArchitects accuse chancellor of being ‘out of sync’ with climate crisis
Profession unconvinced by Sunak’s ‘higher wages, higher skills and rising productivity’ pledge
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FeaturesCountdown to COP26: Sumita Singha & Richard Waterhouse
As the global climate summit approaches, we ask leading figures in the profession and wider industry to share one idea they think could help save the planet
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OpinionWhen it comes to the climate emergency urbanists are part of the solution, right?
The data suggests cities aren’t quite as sustainable as we like to think, says David Rudlin
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NewsArchitects unveil ‘game-changing’ housing retrofit handbook
LETI sets clear energy use targets but warns of skills gap ahead of 30m-home retrofit marathon
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OpinionWhat is levelling up? It’s supporting bottom-up initiatives with top-down cash
Julia Park finds inspiration in some remarkable community initiatives – but stresses that funding is the key to smoothing inequalities
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FeaturesValue Engineering: The new Grenfell play should be required viewing
Richard Norton-Taylor’s dramatisation of the Grenfell Inquiry shines an uncomfortable light on the construction industry, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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NewsWinners of Stratford Design Challenge announced
Judges of Building [Re]Design ideas competition award a first prize and a highly commended