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Quarry Life Award
Heidelberg Materials has announced an open international contest for ideas to boost biodiversity and community involvement across a range of quarry sites [Deadline: 8 November 2024]
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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
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