News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency
Architects have 196 times the power to slash carbon emissions through work on large projects than through changes to their own lifestyles, according to a member of Architype's climate action team
The director of David Chipperfield’s famous River & Rowing Museum, which came within inches of being flooded earlier this year, has called for planners to better consider the impact of development on buildings downstream
To create a more regenerative built environment, it’s important not to impose new-build standards on old buildings and to use a structural engineer from the outset, argues Penny Gowler
A group of activists has won a court case preventing the government from watering down a local authority’s net zero ambitions
Regenerative design is the future of the industry, say Becky Gordon from Interface and Rachael Owens from Buckley Gray Yeoman
Legislation comes into force today (12 February) requiring developers to improve the biodiversity on all sites earmarked for major new proposals
The vast environmental cost of Eric Parry’s proposed City of London skyscraper highlights the urgent need for more robust whole-life carbon assessments, writes Matt Mahony
RIBA president Muyiwa Oki has responded to Labour’s ditching of its £28 billion-a-year green investment pledge with a warning that future generations may ‘pay the price’
London politicians have urged the government to make whole-life carbon (WLC) assessments compulsory for new buildings and to cut VAT on all retrofit projects
The government’s legally binding net zero targets are in jeopardy because of delays in reforming planning rules, MPs have said
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