All Energy, infrastructure and refurbishment articles – Page 25
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FeaturesRethinking the high street takes creativity and intent
We might be entering a post-retail, post-pandemic age, but that does not have to mean the end of the high street, writes Michael Holt in the latest in our Stratford Design Challenge series
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NewsArchitects urge governments to decarbonise global building codes
RIBA and Architects Declare publish joint report ahead of COP26
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OpinionWatch out for more changes as Building Safety Bill makes progress
The coming months are going to be challenging for anyone with an interest in building safety and regulation. We must be alert to more rapidly changing legislation and guidance, writes Andrew Mellor
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Restoring Birmingham Selfridges’ cladding
Future Systems’ Selfridges has donned temporary garb of greater gaudiness while faults are fixed in the glittering blue chainmail below. Thomas Lane explains the technical challenges. Photography by Oliver Lane
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NewsAll aboard Grimshaw’s £1.1bn Northern Line Extension
Services on the first tube extension this century started this morning after six years of construction
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FeaturesCPD 9 2021: Decarbonising existing homes
This Kingspan Insulation sponsored CPD explains why, to achieve the reductions needed in home energy use, new technology such as heat pumps must be accompanied by measures like insulation. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 29 October 2021
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NewsPedder & Scampton completes Chad Gordon autism campus
Retrofitted centre is for Haringey residents with autism, complex learning disabilities and Aspergers
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NewsMinisters slated for ‘unacceptable’ delivery of Green Homes Grant
National Audit Office says abandoned £1.5bn domestic retrofit discount scheme will help less than a tenth of the homes originally targeted
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NewsBirmingham faces loss of another post-war building
James Roberts’ Triplex House slated for demolition
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NewsIn pictures: BDG revamps first tower to eclipse St Paul’s
Practice has redesigned several floors of 1967 Citypoint tower
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NewsFoster says architects who refuse airport projects have ‘hypocritical moral stance’
Architect said profession ‘can’t walk away’ from responsilbity to decarbonise buildings used for transport
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NewsWinners of 2021 RIAS awards announced
Housing, heritage and cultural projects among those honoured
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NewsHawkins Brown to repurpose one of Southwark’s last Victorian warehouses
Listed Bankside gem is currently on Historic England’s At Risk Register
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NewsNational retrofit scheme must give householders clarity, confidence and protection, prime minister warned
Public trust is crucial aspect of retrofitting 29m homes, says alliance of industry and consumers
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NewsHS2 appoints 16 new members to its design panel
Fifth of advisory panel now from minority ethnic backgrounds
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NewsCity approves John Robertson Architects’ Daily Mail makeover
JRA scoops third national newspaper HQ refurb
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Building StudyTechnical study: Cutting 75% of emissions from Powell & Moya’s Wolfson College, Oxford
Embarrassed by being one of the worst carbon culprits in the region, the college set out to be net zero by 2030. Retrofitting 763 windows was just the start of it, finds Thomas Lane
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NewsLDA appointed to draw up net zero design codes for RTPI
Farrells, Gbolade Design Studio and Exterior appointed by Southwark for design code trial
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NewsDesign Council appoints former Cabe chief as director of place
Edward Hobson joins from innovation network KTN
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NewsPenoyre & Prasad’s angular addition to Birkbeck campus completes
Cantilevered copper roof extension contains lecture theatre and classroom