Very much looking forward to talking today at 12.15 at Dublin City Councils ‘Generous Architectures’ series. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https…

Embodied impact should definitely be measured per occupant and not per m2 #GrandDesigns

kg/CO2e/person should absolutely be a metric for reporting, alongside per m2 to avoid overly #GrandDesigns masking massive climate impacts by achieving low figures per sqm, despite sometimes being 300sqm as a 1 bed home. Let’s start this.

Enjoying #ajarchitectureawards with legend #evajiricna

Worth watching

Astonishing

Simon Sturgis: 1/3 👏 "The CoLC received a number of credible and viable proposals for a ‘major refurbishment’ of the existing buildings. "

2/3 "These proposals not only met the CoLC’s commercial requirements, but also met a whole range of UK, GLA and CoLC net zero, retrofit, and carbon policies for this site."♻️

3/3:🤔 "Option 2 is the option that is most consistent with the approach favoured by the commercial bids in the City’s market testing exercise. Why was this then excluded?"

A major reason for this is that we have offshored a lot of our manufacturing to places like China. So these reduction whilst welcome are a sign of decline.

See my article in Architects’ Journal on why the future must include the past. architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion/w…

Simon Sturgis Architects’ Journal Completely agree here. But that Heatherwick project has got to be the worst example - have you seen how much additional concrete it took to « retain »?! 🤯

You have an important point! What I was trying to get across was deploying imagination with unpromising existing buildings.

Interesting, Fosters is not the practice that springs to mind with ‘Eco’ anything.

See my second article in RIBAJ on the new RICS WLCA Standard, and what it means for Architects ow.ly/eLrR50Rg1YE

With Dido Milne at the National Autistic Society Garden. Rain-Good for Plants, ok for buildings, bad for Humans.

We're looking forward to this London Festival of Architecture event, featuring friends of Heritage Declares Henrietta Billings and Simon Sturgis ...

See article on whole life carbon assessment bcis.co.uk/insight/rics-w…

The next government should make the Treasury responsible for the UK’s Carbon Budget. This would make CO2 as important as money in all decision making.

See my RIBA Journal article on designing low carbon architecture: ribaj.com/intelligence/t…