Simon Foxell launches the Edge Policy Proposals session ⁦Futurebuild⁩ ⁦The Edge⁩ ⁦Cullinan Studio⁩

📣📣📣 Come do a #PhD with me and Architype ERBECDT UCL Inst. for Environmental Design and Engineering The Bartlett PhD on #health & #wellbeing in #lowenergy #lowcarbon #netzero #Passivhaus buildings! Click here to apply: bit.ly/3MubGK6 Deadline: 7 May #findaPhD #PhDchat #PhDposition

Thanks Sophie. We never did need to build tall if we plan our towns and cities efficiently and stop uncontrolled land value speculation -we need an effective planning system Cullinan Studio The Edge

How will different possible social and behavioural changes affect the path to net zero? Read the Government Office for Science report featuring UK energy systems modelling from UCL Energy Institute and UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources researchers using our UK TIMES model. ow.ly/5B2X50NKmrh

This is getting ridiculous. OISST provides a real-time daily index of ocean surface temperature (60 S - 60 N). For the last month it has been continuously reading higher than in any previous year and still shows no sign of settling.

Wealth tax of 0.5% could cover UK’s share of loss and damage fund, says charity theguardian.com/environment/20…. A good step in the right direction maybe but why don’t we move the whole system to a pollster pays operation - water, air travel, food etc The Edge

Fossil fuel firms owe climate reparations of $209bn a year, says study theguardian.com/environment/20…. Don’t we need to restructure our economy on a polluter pays principle?The Edge B&C Editors Cullinan Studio

Aecom are researching the Impacts to Business of Carrying Out Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCAs) on behalf of DLUHC. Please consider filling out the enclosed survey if you are involved in whole life carbon assessments. ns55.askia.com/WebProd/Interv…

READ THIS: Impact of 2050 tree shading strategies on building #cooling demands. Using proxy neighbourhood models, the boldest tree planting strategy (16% canopy cover) reduced neighbourhood-scale building cooling energy demand by 48%. #urbanplanning doi.org/10.5334/bc.353

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It's taken me nearly 3 yrs to write, involving over 80 hours of interviews with some of the world's leading #circulareconomy thinkers, practitioners & enablers. Now the Second Edition of Royal Institute of British Architects RE-USE ATLAS is finally complete. #Reuse Pre-Order now ribabooks.com/The-Re-use-Atl…

Ashley The Edge CIBSE Resilient Cities IOP Environment Landscape Institute 11th International Conference on Urban Climate we are - #CIBSE_HCNW have orginised one for next week eventbrite.co.uk/e/cibse-hcnwan… feel free to come along and say hi!

New: DATA POLITICS IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT Datafication processes are far from neutral & foster exclusion. This B&C Editors special issue explores (often invisibile) practices, politics & power implications of data-driven buildings & cities buildingsandcities.org/journal-conten…

How will processes like retrofitting and life cycle assessment help us reach net zero? Join us on Wednesday 29 November for a webinar exploring energy saving in the built environment, with Steve Fernandez Arup and Jane Anderson Jane Anderson bit.ly/49wFAql

join me tonight for the #CityofLondon Winter #UrbanClimate walk w. Dimple Rana CIBSE HCNW (ARUP) Explore how urban climates & climate change impact cities beyond #overheating Discuss sheltering effects UHI benefits & more #UrbanClimateTour #ResilientCities eventbrite.co.uk/e/cibse-hcnwan…

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ERBECDT UCL Energy Institute LboroABCE MaREI Politecnico di Milano Politechnika Wrocławska iiSBE The Edge Welsh School of Architecture Reading Architecture TU Delft

New Book Review! Healthy Urbanism. Designing and Planning Equitable, Sustainable and Inclusive Places By Helen Pineo Bomin Kim reviews this excellent book that provides a actionable guide to create equitable, inclusive and sustainable urban environments. buff.ly/4brL0m5

The authors conclude, “Helping people afford the housing stock that is available would be more cost effective than expanding new home construction in the hope that additional supply would bring prices down.” planetizen.com/news/2024/06/1…

New Editorial! Disrupting the imaginaries of urban action to deliver just adaptation New adaptation imaginaries will facilitate just adaptation and enable radical changes in the relationship between humans and their environment. How it can happen? Read: buff.ly/4co85HW