Envelope – Page 3
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OpinionReducing 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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TechnicalDoes 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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NewsGove 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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NewsRIBA urges mass-retrofit programme for interwar housing
Improving 3.3m homes would cost £37.5bn, says institute
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NewsCoffey’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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NewsKingspan 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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NewsLloyd’s decision on future of Rogers building delayed by pandemic
Insurance giant consulted architects on major overhaul
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NewsGovernment 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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NewsCladding 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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NewsGovernment’s guide to external wall assessments replaced
BSI publishes new fire safety guide as Gove withdraws flawed advice note
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NewsGovernment must do more to fix flawed building safety regime, says Allford
RIBA president questions effectiveness of Gove’s announcements
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NewsGovernment 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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NewsCity green-lights AHMM’s ‘biophilic’ office tower
24-storey block is seventh high-rise approved in Square Mile this year
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FeaturesLay off the plasterboard and cladding
Cutting out the layers can make buildings more sustainable, argues Steve Webb
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NewsBishops 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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NewsYoung designers ‘vital’ to tackling climate crisis, says Herzog partner
‘We are depending on the next generation’
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TechnicalTechnical 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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NewsPiercy & Co lands green light for ‘micro room’ hotel
Approval is practice’s third in recent weeks
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NewsAHMM submits plans for 24-storey ‘biophilic’ City office
Scheme will replace 1980s buildings near Shoreditch and Whitechapel fringe
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NewsFate of Populous’ MSG Sphere set to be decided next month
21,500-capacity venue would be UK’s largest concert arena