Ask the expert: Timber cladding
Isabel Allen2022-12-27T12:37:46+00:00Janet Sycamore from The Timber Decking and Cladding Association answers readers’ questions.
Specifying sustainability for commercial washrooms
AT Editor2023-02-01T10:16:25+00:00Anil Madan, Non-Residential Marketing Manager at Ideal Standard UK, discusses how innovative washroom technologies can help specifiers meet environmental regulations both now and in the future.
Designing for access with elegance: Wraxall Yard by Clementine Blakemore Architects
Jason Sayer2022-12-06T19:25:21+00:00Clementine Blakemore Architects has transformed a collection of ignored agricultural buildings in Dorset into an inclusive retreat and valuable community asset.
Net zero nursery by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Max Fordham
AT Editor2022-12-06T15:25:26+00:00Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Max Fordham's sustainable, on-campus nursery for Staffordshire University puts play, development, wellbeing and nature at the heart of early years education.
My kind of town: Bob Allies
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-12-01T17:41:05+00:00The co-founder of Allies and Morrison on how Rome accommodates change. The new need not be the enemy of the old; the present can co-exist with the past.
Designing for net-zero performance
AT Editor2024-12-12T17:10:10+00:00Watch the AT Schüco webinar exploring how built environment stakeholders are working towards a net-zero future.
Materials Library: Bureau de Change
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-08T10:33:13+01:00Katerina Dionysopoulou and Billy Mavropoulos discuss the importance of material research and establishing close working relationships with specialist suppliers and subcontractors
Taking a scientific approach to change
AT Editor2023-01-09T18:56:35+00:00Reynaers 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.
Ask the expert: Biodiversity
AT Editor2022-11-21T15:52:55+00:00Vicki Mordue from Biodiverse Consulting answers readers’ questions.
Good mews story
AT Editor2022-11-28T16:18:38+00:00Sanya 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.
Retrofit: Keyhole surgery
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-08T10:32:30+01:00Jonathan 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.
Measured energy efficiency is coming, let’s design for it now
AT Editor2022-12-01T11:05:24+00:00Matthew 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.