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.
Raising the game
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:20+00:00Julian 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.
Designing in sustainability with Marley
AT Editor2022-10-12T09:35:23+01:00Stuart 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.
Getting to zero
AT Editor2022-09-20T12:47:34+01:00Lars 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.
Making flat roofs greener with SIG and IKO
AT Editor2022-12-06T17:32:31+00:00Ross 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.