Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos discuss the importance of material research and establishing close working relationships with specialist suppliers and subcontractors
Reynaers UK Technical Services Director John McComb explains how the company is taking an industry-leading stance on sustainability, which includes adopting the science-based target initiative (SBTi) and making a clear commitment to meeting net-zero targets.
Vicki Mordue from Biodiverse Consulting answers readers’ questions.
Sanya Polescuk Architects has skilfully inserted a pair of low-carbon, multi-generational flats into a Victorian mews in north London, significantly boosting the building’s spatial and environmental performance.
Jonathan Spratt from Bennetts Associates argues that, for ‘young’ buildings from the 1990s and early 2000s architects should steer clients away from a comprehensive retrofit approach towards a strategy of ‘keyhole surgery’ – minimal interventions that have a transformative effect.
Matthew Prowse, Specification and Housing Director for Knauf Insulation, discusses how homes being designed today can prepare for the imminent shift to measured ‘in-use’ energy performance.
Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at the London School of Economics, reflects on the costs, benefits and shifting priorities of the university’s ambitious building programme.
Stuart Nicholson, roof systems director at Marley, explores how closer supply chain collaboration and an improved understanding of renewable technologies can help drive the sustainability agenda for architects and tackle domestic energy costs.
Lars Knöner, Head of Sustainability Projects at Schüco International, in conversation with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw, discusses the importance of targeting zero carbon and what the manufacturer is doing to achieve this goal.
Ross Finnie, Sales Director at SIG Design and Technology, discusses how one of the company’s key partners, IKO, is greening its flat roofing products and manufacturing processes with Architecture Today’s Technical Editor John Ramshaw.
Artist Morag Myerscough has unveiled an aerial art installation running the length of London’s Oxford Street to encourage action on the transition to a low carbon future.
Birmingham's Retrofit Reimagined festival was a welcome switch up of the traditional archi-event and a chance for meaningful conversation on the action needed to address climate crisis, finds Bobby Jewell.
