Any clients pursuing price-led procurement of design or construction should take a long, hard look at this and wonder whether shaving a few percent off the cost is really worth it in the long run.
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Ok it's time for the #strawhouse thread 🧵. Buildings that are already #climatepositive = directly relieve the atmosphere without calculation tricks over lifetime. Straw is a durable passivhaus insulation wall. A agri residue and almost half of it is carbon.
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Last chance to register for the next topic on 'The impacts of COVID-19 on how we practise architecture' as part of #GlobalArchitectureExchange. Don't miss out on the opportunity to join worldwide architects in conversation on 17 November, 7 am (GMT).eventbrite.co.uk/e/2021-glob…
Emerging talent Studio MUTT, working with Roger Zogolovitch’s Solidspace, has won the Liverpool City Region’s ideas competition for a new post-Covid townhouse bit.ly/2YlJ4fw
Is the future of collaboration online?
On the final day of the #RIBAGuerrillaTactics conference (15:15 11th Nov) two practitioners, @ClareNashArch and Tom Vigar, @baumanlyons will explore potential futures for the daily life of the architect.
For our second talk of @RIBA Guerrilla Tactics conference (14:40 on 9th Nov), we’ll be hearing from Service Designer, @worddoodles_EP (Emma Parnell), asking how architects can learn new ways of working from parallel design disciplines, like Service Design?
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The trend for living walls is spreading to car parks, schools and shopping centres. But why are some of them dying? 🍃 @EllaJessel investigates bit.ly/3Bq2cXb
“Building projects are stalling and wages are rising as a result of the labour squeeze, while costs are rocketing for materials caught up in the wider disruption to global supply chains.”