More Opinion – Page 6
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How much carbon does your building weigh?
Knowing material properties, their cost, thermal performance, and embodied carbon is how architects can regain agency for better client and broader social outcomes
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The emotional construction programme: an architect’s journey
Satish Jassal opens up about the challenges of seeing through a project on site
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Natural slate: A solution to the issue of embodied carbon
Embodied carbon represents the impact associated with extracting raw materials, manufacturing building components, transporting them to site and installing them. This also includes end-of-life emissions generated from the disposal or recycling of materials. The University of Bath evaluated the carbon impact of different roofing materials as part of its Inventory ...
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The unfolding RAAC crisis highlights the need for a new vision for schools
The built environment and education sectors are just waiting for the opportunity to retrofit and rebuild Britain’s schools, writes Rafael Marks
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These are the three key drivers behind modern workplace design
Community, wellbeing, and sustainability are key to creating happy and productive office spaces, writes Katie Lin
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Birmingham used to know how to undertake community partnerships. It needs to relearn… quickly
The value that local authorities bring is partly in their institutional memories. But if a council forgets what it once used to do well, then it’s in trouble, writes Joe Holyoak
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What’s stopping us from re-using office buildings?
We should be more flexible and creative both in making the most of existing buildings and compromising over what we require from them, writes Anna Beckett
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The transformative power of regenerative retrofitting
We need to move beyond aspiring to be ‘less bad’, towards creating net positive good, writes Tara Gbolade
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The Part 3 course might be nearing the end of the road, but it contains a blueprint for success
Anthony Richardson share tips on how to succeed at Part 3 and looks forward to how the current course could inform ARB’s reforms
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A Principal Designer and Contractor become a legal requirement from October, but are architects and clients ready?
With just weeks until new legislation comes into effect, architects and clients are scrambling to get ready, writes Andrew Mellor
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Modernist dogma should not prevent us from rebuilding the Crooked House
The belief that we must not reconstruct badly damaged buildings is based on outdated readings of Ruskin and William Morris, writes Andy Foster
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The British School at Rome's new summer school offers a priceless opportunity to learn and reflect
An incredibly diverse range of architects, urbanists and designers have benefitted from their time at the school, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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All architects need to be agents of change
Let us harness architects’ collective expertise and passion to shape a profession that can deliver a built environment for the better, writes Muyiwa Oki
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This Stirling shortlist is in tune with the times
The final six projects in contention for this year’s prize are all marked by an underlying seriousness and a tendency towards simple forms and materials, writes Ben Flatman
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Our crumbling schools are just one more symptom of this government’s failure to plan for the future
We are paying the price for a lost decade of underinvestment and strategic drift on construction and the built enviroment, writes Ben Flatman
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Master plans are for Bond villains
We need to come up with a new name for master planning, but that’s no easy task, writes David Rudlin
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Generative Design & AI Trends: ‘Pre-procurement’
In the final article of this series, Keir Regan-Alexander looks at how new technology could revolutionise approaches to technical design and procurement
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Want to know about Net Zero? Take a short hard look
With time running out to avert the worst of climate change, approaches to achieving Net Zero need to change fast, writes Susan Roaf
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Public Practice: How my desire to be at the decision-making table drove me to join the public sector
For built environment professionals who desire to influence project outcomes and have more of a role in decision making, the public sector provides an attractive career path, writes Yemi Aladerun
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Reforming the RIBA is like trying to change the course of a supertanker … but we did it
Looking back over his two-year term, departing RIBA president Simon Allford argues that substantial change has been delivered and that the profession’s future is bright