All Envelope articles – Page 3
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Features
The Insulation Solution for Rainscreen and Masonry Facades
Poltern Max Plus is a non-combustable stone wool insulation offering both thermal and acoustic benefits
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Opinion
Reducing embodied carbon through facade design
Mark Voss shares his perspective on the industry’s challenges facing the reduction of embodied carbon associated with the building facade and how early input from facade designers can help
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Technical
Does the key to cutting carbon lie beneath your feet?
A new system aims to reduce the embodied carbon of a floor slab by up to 75%. But are other solutions already to hand?
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News
Gove announces plan to give legal force to £4bn cladding threats
Ministers set to amend law to stop developers from building unless they pay into remediation fund
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News
RIBA urges mass-retrofit programme for interwar housing
Improving 3.3m homes would cost £37.5bn, says institute
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News
Coffey’s digital skills centre is UK’s first Town Deal project to complete
In pictures: Norwich’s luminous Digi-Tech Factory will accommodate 500 students
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News
Kingspan ordered to halt sales of Kooltherm K15 insulation
Insulation manufacturer recalls batches of the same product used on Grenfell after it was found to have lower than advertised fire safety performance
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News
Lloyd’s decision on future of Rogers building delayed by pandemic
Insurance giant consulted architects on major overhaul
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News
Government to meet CLC over product certification worries
Talks with construction minister to be held in coming days as concerns grow over UK’s capability to carry out tests
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News
Cladding manufacturers must pay into fund or face ban, says Gove
Housing secretary says cladding and insulation sector must contribute ‘significant portion’ of remediation costs
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News
Government’s guide to external wall assessments replaced
BSI publishes new fire safety guide as Gove withdraws flawed advice note
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News
Government must do more to fix flawed building safety regime, says Allford
RIBA president questions effectiveness of Gove’s announcements
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News
Government to pursue developers for £4bn cladding bill
Gove threatens legal action and funding removal if industry doesn’t meet cost of remediating blocks 11 to 18 metres tall
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News
City green-lights AHMM’s ‘biophilic’ office tower
24-storey block is seventh high-rise approved in Square Mile this year
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Features
Lay off the plasterboard and cladding
Cutting out the layers can make buildings more sustainable, argues Steve Webb
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News
Bishops ramp up pressure on government and industry over cladding scandal
Groups take ‘polluter pays’ message to Tory conference, as a leaseholder’s suicide is reported
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News
Young designers ‘vital’ to tackling climate crisis, says Herzog partner
‘We are depending on the next generation’
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Technical
Technical Study: Restoring Birmingham Selfridges’ cladding
Future Systems’ Selfridges has donned temporary garb of greater gaudiness while faults are fixed in the glittering blue chainmail below. Thomas Lane explains the technical challenges. Photography by Oliver Lane
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News
Piercy & Co lands green light for ‘micro room’ hotel
Approval is practice’s third in recent weeks
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News
AHMM submits plans for 24-storey ‘biophilic’ City office
Scheme will replace 1980s buildings near Shoreditch and Whitechapel fringe