Episode 33. AJ Climate Champions with Hattie Hartman. Velux director of sustainable buildings Lone Feifer explains why ‘relative’ sustainability, improvement on previous standards, is no longer good enough. ‘One planet means one carbon budget with a fixed amount available for buildings,’ she says. It’s not about improving relative to previously accepted standards.
Lone also describes how Denmark’s new building regulations, effective in January 2023, will regulate whole life carbon by requiring life cycle assessment for projects and setting benchmarks for different building types. For homes, Feifer advocates the Active House Alliance’s adaptive comfort approach rather than the absolute comfort ranges prescribed by Passivhaus.
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In association with Velux
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Landscape architect Jo Gibbons on why trees matter, urban forestry and greening our cities
Barnabas Calder revisits architectural history through the lens of energy and climate
Guy Shrubsole on rewilding Britain and greening our cities
Steve Webb & Wilf Meynell: ‘We’re brainwashed into steel and concrete mode’
Harry Paticas on empowering communities through the low-carbon retrofit of primary schools
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Anna Heringer: 'You can build with clay in a very modern way'
Sarah Wigglesworth: 'Sustainable architecture is fantastically creative'
Haworth Tompkins' Diana Dina: 'We want to share ideas with other practices'
Sofie Pelsmakers: 'Sustainable architecture is "architecture on steroids" – it needs to perform'
Annalie Riches: 'We need more projects that show sustainable design isn't ugly'
Maria Smith: 'It's depressing how much architects are the problem'
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