Retrofitting our homes will be necessary if we are to meet net zero climate emergency goals in the built environment sector. Marion Baeli details how this can be achieved with a fabric first approach to minimise operational energy or space heating demand.
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Melanie Perkins has been helping Centrepoint with their Independent Living Programme.
Space standards are rightly applied to new homes however, are there circumstances where it should be possible to provide smaller, well-designed homes for a specific need?
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Our Associate, Cian Scanlon, has been highly commended for his entry ‘The disconnected office’ in this year’s BCO NextGen ideas project competition. A new concept for 2022, this idea generation competition challenged entrants to present their boldest, most innovative and creative ideas for the future workspace.
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The annual Mental Health Awareness Week provides an opportunity for the Architectural, Engineering and Construction Industry to broaden the discussion beyond recognition, understanding and support of mental health to more fundamental questions about the way our industry functions and how it could be improved to reduce the stress it innately creates.
Associate Director Matt Jones talks about his experience of mental health and the AEC industry.
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Retrofitting the UK’s building stock presents a colossal challenge, and with time fast-disappearing to meet our zero carbon emissions goals, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for London’s Planning and Built Environment met recently to discuss what needs to be done.
Siân Rearden reports on the latest APPG session held on 31st January, at which Marion Baeli (Partner at PDP London) was a panel member.
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If we look at whole life carbon in the context of progress over the past decades we can see why we now need to prioritise our efforts on embodied carbon if we are to meet our 2030 targets. Michelle Sanchez makes a compelling argument on our need to address embodied carbon.
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