Episide 31. The Manchester-based Jo Sharples and Jack Richards of Editional Studio share top tips from Decarbonise Your House Now!, a timely domestic retrofit guide they have put together for clients and architects.
Each recommended retrofit measure is assessed in terms of ‘trigger points’ (if you’re doing X, consider Y) and ‘related opportunities’ (if you’re doing x, consider the optimal low carbon approach). Launched in late 2021, Decarbonise Your House Now! forms the basis of an ongoing exhibition in Editional Studio’s studio shopfront in Manchester’s Chorlton neighbourhood.
Hawkins\Brown’s Louisa Bowles on what net zero actually means
Bob Prewett explains why Passivhaus is often too much for heritage buildings
ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit
John Christophers on his zero carbon home, which generates a 40% energy surplus
Lessons from AHMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School building performance study
Judit Kimpian on why building performance studies are crucial for net zero
AKT II’s Hanif Kara on CLT virtue signalling, concrete innovations and Bloomberg’s embodied carbon
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum on why the climate crisis is not a north-south problem
Philippe Madec on combining sustainable development with Frampton’s critical regionalism
How France is pioneering contemporary architecture built from straw, hemp and thatch
Why France is increasingly building with bio-renewable materials – with Dominique Gauzin-Müller
Justin McGuirk on the Design Museum’s Waste Age exhibition and Kat Scott on the Architects Declare Practice Guide
Rachel Hoolahan on material passports for retrofit
Duncan Baker-Brown on mining the Anthropocene
COP26: Glasgow‘s plans for carbon neutrality by 2030 + ACAN‘s COP26 fringe activism
COP26 pop-up activism and Glasgow’s new climate resilient public realm
RIBA Climate Special with Simon Allford and Gary Clark
The 21st-century village: Sarah Featherstone and Jennifer Ross on VeloCity
Rewilding expert Isabella Tree on why a 3,500-home development must be stopped
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