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Glenn Howells shows the versatility of a repeating structural grid, with a building designed to adapt to University College Birmingham’s ever-changing needs.
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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios combines post-tensioned slabs and open spaces for a lean, robust framework student centre capable of having “three or four lives”
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To acquire an overall understanding of a built project’s total carbon impact, it is necessary to assess both the anticipated operational and embodied emissions over the life of the asset. Considering the combined operational and embodied carbon emissions over a project’s expected life cycle constitutes a whole-life approach.
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O’Donnell + Tuomey and Buro Happold build a noise and vibration-free machine for dancing
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How concrete can be specified to have lower embodied carbon and provide the lowest whole life carbon solutions, now and in the future.
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UCL’s East Bank campus heralds a new chapter for the Olympic Park. Nick Jones looks around the first buildings to emerge on a waterfront development devoted to culture and learning
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Case study articles include: Francis Crick Institute, London; Tate Modern extension; London Salerno Marine Terminal.
Technical articles on: thermal bridging; timber formwork; concrete's fire resistance.
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High levels of GGBS and a lean ribbed-slab structure have helped to reduced embodied carbon by 30% at Tatehindle’s admirably restrained HQ for the Salvation Army, writes Tony Whitehead
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At 333 Kingsland Road and Hackney New Primary School, the practice unites two very different typologies through big public gestures and bold red masonry.
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AHMM has resuscitated the 18th-century Royal London Hospital, adapting and extending it into a flagship centre of east London civic life