Organisations endorsing Buildings and Cities
International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) iiSBE is an international non-profit organization whose overall aim is to actively facilitate and promote the adoption of policies, methods and tool...
The Edge The Edge is a campaigning built-environment think tank and is multi-disciplinary in a landscape that is remarkable for the high number of single-discipline institutions it contains. The built environment is ...
Society of Building Science Educators The Society of Building Science Educators (SBSE) is an association of university educators and practitioners in architecture and related disciplines who support excellence in the ...
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Negotiating net-zero carbon: an ANT analysis of two buildings
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Design for disassembly: a review of public policy proposals
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Latest Commentaries
Professional Ethics in a Climate Crisis
The climate crisis has progressed into a dangerous phase with tragic consequences often counted in numbers of excess deaths, but also by powerful economic impacts of rising food prices, the increased costs of insurance and lending, costly damage to the built environment. Celia Davies, Director of Impact at the UK’s Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Hugh Ellis, Director of Policy at TCPA, consider the responsibilities of professionals in shaping a built environment which is fit not just for today's climate risks but for the dramatic increase in severe and unpredictable weather which is now locked into our climate systems.
Living Labs: Maturity, Impact and the Role of Researchers
Living labs are blossoming more than ever. Their first appearances in academic literature were roughly 25 years ago. Dimitri Schuurman (Ghent University) responds to the recent Buildings & Cities special issue “Living Labs: Agents for Change” and focuses on two important drawbacks that also come with living labs booming in practice as well as in the literature.