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A building that blends into its Black Forest surroundings

Region:: Europe

More:: Germany

Two-thirds of architects are using digital methods to calculate at least one form of environmental metric

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: NBS; Digital tools; Embodied carbon; Digital Construction Report; Stephen Cousins; Environmental Product Declarations; Sustainable architecture; Design construction & technology

You’d be surprised what monitoring can reveal

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Sustainability; External management; Energy efficiency; Performance gap; Energy monitoring; Designing & building it; Creating design quality and performance; Education; Health; Housing; Research; Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

How Knox Bhavan’s carbon calculator makes more sustainable designs

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Sustainable architecture; Knox Bhavan; Ben Hair; Climate emergency; Design construction & technology; Retrofit; Carbon calculator

Do UK designers conform to UN Sustainable Development Goals?

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Adrian Malleson; Sustainable architecture; Legal regulatory & statutory compliance; 2030 Climate Challenge; UN Sustainable Development Goals; RIBA

Building clarity and a calculation methodology for meeting/exceeding Climate Challenge 2030 targets

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Unilin Insulation; Embodied carbon; Sustainability; Regulations and compliance; RIBA Climate Challenge 2030; Housing; Insulation

Practitioner, Commended: Hamid Zeayaian

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Hamid Zeayaian; Eye Line 2021; Drawing; Competition; Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Katy Marks finds inspiration and joy in Lisa Heschong’s Thermal Delight in Architecture

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Katy Marks; Thermal; Design construction & technology; Citizens Design Bureau; Lisa Heschong

What we have learnt from Planning Gateway One

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Health safety & wellbeing; Legal regulatory & statutory compliance; Adrian Dobson; Places planning & community; Planning Gateway One; Building Safety Act; Grenfell inquiry

OrthoGraph’s multiplatform software allows users to create full professional surveys

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: BIM; Survey; Measurements; Software; Mobile

Calculator allows designers to measure the environmental impact of their material and product choices

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Vectorworks; Architectural software; Net zero carbon; BIM; CAD; Net Zero Carbon Buildings Framework

Innovative methodology shows true effect of steel and concrete on habitats and species

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Materials; Stephen Cousins; Institution of Civil Engineers; Biodiversity net gain; Biodiversity; Sustainable architecture

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Measuring up

Four in ten architects are using digital tools to measure embodied carbon

Measured response

Small firms can measure carbon too

Measuring sustainable design

Understanding - and measuring - embodied carbon

Hamid Zeayaian commended for measured dreaminess of imaginary buildings

Favourite books: you can’t measure delight in kilowatt hours

High risk residential: fire safety measures must go in at the outset

Complete building surveys by mobile

Digital tool helps architects build towards net zero carbon

‘Embodied biodiversity’ proposed as measure of construction material impacts