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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
Podcasts
The AJ’s podcasts, including AJ Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Find AJ Climate Champions on your favourite podcast app: subscribe via Spotify, Apple podcasts, YouTube, Deezer and Podbean
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
AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘I’m no longer the wood weirdo,’ says Andrew Waugh
Waugh explains how building with timber can address industry transformation at scale
AJ Climate Champions podcast: How Public Practice associates are driving retrofit and net zero
Two Public Practice associates explain how working for local authorities has increased their agency
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Je Ahn on setting up Studio Weave and working with found materials
Studio Weave founding director Je Ahn explains the challenges of sourcing timber from London’s streets and parks
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Material passports and Architects Declare four years on
Julia Barfield of London Eye architect Marks Barfield describes how the climate emergency has changed her practice and outlines what’s ahead for Architects Declare