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Latest Peer-Reviewed Journal Content
Towards net zero: sectoral ambitions and global trends in building decarbonisation
C E Caballero-Güereca, J Vogel, N Alaux, C M Ouellet-Plamondon, J Silva Santana, G Foliente, T Lützkendorf & A Passer
Climate literacy and labour agency in vocational education and training
J Calvert, V Price, C Winch, L Clarke, M Sahin-Dikmen, P-L Bilodeau & E Dionne
Towards a new neighbourhood-scale climate risk-adaptation approach
C Rigoni, S Oliveira, O Romice, A Moreno-Rangel & A Chatzimichali
Sharing energy renovations know-how through citizen–professional knowledge networks
C Foulds, S Royston, A Aggeli, A Crowther & R Robison
Environmental impacts of reclaimed bricks: comparing different deconstruction methods
E Salmio & S Huuhka
eCOMBINE: framework for energy, comfort, behaviour and a multi-domain environment
V M Barthelmes, C Karmann, V Gonzalez Serrano, K Lyu, J Wienold, M Andersen, D Licina & D Khovalyg
Living labs as ‘agents for change’ [editorial]
N Antaki, D Petrescu & V Marin
Post-disaster reconstruction: infill housing prototypes for Kathmandu
J Bolchover & K Mundle
Urban verticalisation: typologies of high-rise development in Santiago
D Moreno-Alba, C Marmolejo-Duarte, M Vicuña del Río & C Aguirre-Núñez
A public theatre as a living lab to create resilience
A Apostu & M Drăghici
Reconstruction in post-war Rome: transnational flows and national identity
J Jiang
Reframing disaster recovery through spatial justice: an integrated framework
M A Gasseloğlu & J E Gonçalves
Tracking energy signatures of British homes from 2020 to 2025
C Hanmer, J Few, F Hollick, S Elam & T Oreszczyn
Spatial (in)justice shaping the home as a space of work
D Milián Bernal, J Laitinen, H Shevchenko, O Ivanova, S Pelsmakers & E Nisonen
Working at home: tactics to reappropriate the home
D Milián Bernal, S Pelsmakers, E Nisonen & J Vanhatalo
Living labs and building testing labs: enabling climate change adaptation
J Hugo & M Farhadian
Energy sufficiency, space temperature and public policy
J Morley
Living labs: a systematic review of success parameters and outcomes
J M Müller
Towards a universal framework for heat pump monitoring at scale
J Crawley, L Domoney, A O’Donovan, J Wingfield, C Dinu, O Kinnane, P O’Sullivan
Living knowledge labs: creating community and inclusive nature-based solutions
J L Fernández-Pacheco Sáez, I Rasskin-Gutman, N Martín-Bermúdez, A Pérez-Del-Campo
A living lab approach to co-designing climate adaptation strategies
M K Barati & S Bankaru-Swamy
Mediation roles and ecologies within resilience-focused urban living labs
N Antaki, D Petrescu, M Schalk, E Brandao, D Calciu & V Marin
Negotiating expertise in Nepal’s post-earthquake disaster reconstruction
K Rankin, M Suji, B Pandey, J Baniya, D V Hirslund, B Limbu, N Rawal & S Shneiderman
Designing for pro-environmental behaviour change: the aspiration–reality gap
J Simpson & J Uttley
Lifetimes of demolished buildings in US and European cities
J Berglund-Brown, I Dobie, J Hewitt, C De Wolf & J Ochsendorf
Expanding the framework of urban living labs using grassroots methods
T Ahmed, I Delsante & L Migliavacca
Youth engagement in urban living labs: tools, methods and pedagogies
N Charalambous, C Panayi, C Mady, T Augustinčić & D Berc
Co-creating urban transformation: a stakeholder analysis for Germany’s heat transition
P Heger, C Bieber, M Hendawy & A Shooshtari
Placemaking living lab: creating resilient social and spatial infrastructures
M Dodd, N Madabhushi & R Lees
Church pipe organs: historical tuning records as indoor environmental evidence
B Bingley, A Knight & Y Xing
A framework for 1.5°C-aligned GHG budgets in architecture
G Betti, I Spaar, D Bachmann, A Jerosch-Herold, E Kühner, R Yang, K Avhad & S Sinning
Net zero retrofit of the building stock [editorial]
D Godoy-Shimizu & P Steadman
Co-learning in living labs: nurturing civic agency and resilience
A Belfield
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Latest Commentaries
COP30 Report
Matti Kuittinen (Aalto University) reflects on his experience of attending the 2025 UN Conference of the Parties in Belém, Brazil. The roadmaps and commitments failed to deliver the objectives of the 2025 Paris Agreement. However, 2 countries - Japan and Senegal - announced they are creating roadmaps to decarbonise their buildings. An international group of government ministers put housing on the agenda - specifying the need for reduced carbon and energy use along with affordability, quality and climate resilience.
Building-Related Research: New Context, New Challenges
Raymond J. Cole (University of British Columbia) reflects on the key challenges raised in the 34 commissioned essays for Buildings & Cities 5th anniversary. Not only are key research issues identified, but the consequences of changing contexts for conducting research and tailoring its influence on society are highlighted as key areas of action.