The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Will someone join the dots between the skyscraper boom and flooding?
Major cities like London will be hit by widespread flooding if the planet’s temperature rises by 2°C. And tall buildings are making things worse, says Chris Wise
Tag: embodied carbon
Scottish architects condemn ditching of climate change target
Architects north of the border have called for a ‘credible and robust’ plan for reducing carbon emissions after the Scottish Government abandoned a key climate change target
Why it’s time to start decoding green construction
Delivering lower-impact buildings through construction is complicated, says HTA’s Rory Bergin, but as a profession, we need to get better at it
Alec French wins approval to knock down Bristol’s Brutalist car park
Bristol City Council has unanimously approved Alec French Architects' controversial plans to demolish Rupert Street Car Park and replace it with a major mixed-use scheme
London Assembly urges government to insist on whole-life carbon assessments
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
Profession must speed up carbon reduction efforts, report warns
Embodied carbon emissions in the UK’s built environment have not reduced at the pace required to reach net zero, the UK Green Building Council has found
Government to announce roadmap for boosting use of timber in housebuilding
The government is set to announce a timber-house-building roadmap to push for lower embodied carbon in the construction of England’s homes
Think GGBS will fix concrete’s carbon problem? Think again
Concrete’s environmental credentials are pretty terrible but there are far more effective ways of reducing a building’s embodied carbon emissions than using ground granulated blast-furnace slag, argues Anna Beckett
New white paper provides a guide to calculating embodied carbon
Reynaers Aluminium UK has released a white paper providing an in-depth guide to calculating the levels of embodied carbon in aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling systems
Grosvenor’s Andy Haigh: ‘There’s very little carbon literacy in early design decisions’
Ahead of a RetroFirst-themed panel debate at the Ecocity World Summit this week, Grosvenor's director of climate positive solutions Andy Haigh discusses his work and the role of architecture