As intrigue grows around the first prototypes for battery-storing skyscrapers, Anna Highfield speaks to SOM engineer Bill Baker about how these buildings could ‘accelerate carbon payback’ and whether they have a future in the UK
Hear from the winners of AJ Small Projects 2024 at a free lunchtime webinar on 19 September, focused on incorporating sustainable principles into lower-budget architecture
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Arup and AtkinsRéalis are among the creators of a new report which makes the case for Europe to shift to a circular economy by 2035
We crunch the numbers from this year’s survey of AJ100 practices to give a snapshot of an evolving profession
DaeWha Kang Design has enlisted primary school children to provide images for a new V&A exhibition
Rachael Owens, of Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY) and the National Retrofit Hub (NRH), has been named this year’s AJ100 Sustainability Champion
A Hawkins\Brown-designed primary school in Derby has been named AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year 2024 – the practice also won the prize in 2023
Clara Bagenal George, the founder of the Low Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI), has been made an MBE in the King’s 2024 birthday honours
External louvres, blinds and thermal shutters should come under permitted development unless we want the death toll from overheating to spiral, writes Bartlett professor Stephen Gage
Cambridge researchers have found a way of recycling cement to produce ultra-low-emission concrete while also cutting the carbon footprint of steel-making
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