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Architects Declare calls on next RIBA president to maximise climate action
Architects Declare has called on the candidates in this month’s RIBA presidential election to maximise the institute’s action on the climate emergency
Tag: Climate emergency
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Why earth is the ultimate circular material
To achieve replication at scale, Nicolas Coeckelberghs of Brussels-based BC Materials favours compressed earth blocks over rammed earth
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Vinu Daniel on transforming mud and waste into architecture
‘The idea is to propagate. I want to do airports, I want to build cities,’ says the founder of award-winning practice Wallmakers
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Carmody Groarke’s Sian Ricketts on making bricks from waste
Carmody Groarke sustainability lead Sian Ricketts explains how architecture can adapt to the reality of finite resources and an abundance of waste
AJ Climate Champions podcast: AKTII’s David Watson on how to reduce the environmental impacts of brick
Structural engineer David Watson describes the enduring appeal of brick and its underexploited superpower: reuse
Architects should learn humility to tackle climate crisis, RIBA essay says
Architects need to show more humility when dealing with the climate emergency, a leading academic has said in the first of a new series of RIBA essays
AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘Over-specification of concrete is an industry addiction’
Structural engineer Eva MacNamara of Expedition Engineering explains how we can radically reduce our use of concrete and the biodiversity impacts of construction materials
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Henning Larsen’s Martha Lewis on how to screen materials for both chemicals and carbon
Launching a new six-part series on materials, Henning Larsen’s head of materials argues that a baseline of health and environmental impacts should inform specification
Doing less harm simply isn’t good enough. We need regenerative design
Regenerative design is the future of the industry, say Becky Gordon from Interface and Rachael Owens from Buckley Gray Yeoman
Architects have ‘key role’ in reducing emissions, RIBA president says
RIBA president Muyiwa Oki has said architects can play a ‘key role’ in reducing carbon emissions following the conclusion of COP 28 last week