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Housing Adaptability

Housing Adaptability

SPECIAL ISSUE LAUNCH: Join us for a webinar exploring how housing can be made more adaptable

Policy Proposals for the Built and Natural Environment

A wide, coordinated set of policy proposals for built environment is launched for tackling global warming and biodiversity.

2022 Reviewers

2022 Reviewers

Buildings & Cities gratefully acknowledges and thanks our reviewers.

COP27 Expectations

COP27 Expectations

Read this vital series of essays providing multiple perspectives on expected and needed outcomes from COP27.

Remembering Richard Bender

Remembering Richard Bender

Andrew Rabeneck reflects on the recent passing of Richard Bender, dean emeritus of the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley

Alternatives to Air Conditioning

SPECIAL ISSUE LAUNCH: A panel discussion explores future policies, design, technologies and behaviour

Remembering Paul Wilkinson

Remembering Paul Wilkinson

Michael Davies (University College London) reflects on the recent passing of Paul Wilkinson, a world-renowned environmental epidemiologist.

Biogenic Carbon & Climate Change Mitigation: Silver Bullet or Flash in the Pan?

The 80th LCA (life cycle assessment) Forum held on 9 June 2022 considered key issues in research and legislation for how carbon storage in buildings should be accounted for.

Remembering  Patricia Hillebrandt

Jim Meikle reflects on the recent passing of Pat Hillebrandt, whose professional life helped to establish the discipline of construction economics by researching the construction industry, its institutions and firms.

Buildings & Cities is now indexed in Scopus

We are pleased to announce that B&C has been accepted into Scopus.

Mainstreaming Personal Comfort Systems

This series of perspectives considers personal comfort systems: decentralized building thermal control, in which occupants control their local environments with personal devices while the amount of central space conditioning (HVAC) is scaled back.

Level(s): The EU Framework for Sustainable Buildings

The ‘Level(s)’ provides professionals with a framework guiding the sustainability performance assessment of buildings.

2021 Reviewers

2021 Reviewers

Buildings & Cities gratefully acknowledges and thanks our reviewers.

Embodied Carbon in Concrete: Problems of Mis-Messaging

Is trade body information accurate about the embodied carbon in concrete?

New Editorial Positions at B&C

New Editorial Positions at B&C

We are seeking 2 people to journal our editorial team

Creating a Built Environment within Planetary Boundaries

RESEARCHERS DECLARE! A series of specific recommendations for action were recently created by the research community for policymakers, industry and society.

How Does Architectural Form Influence Economic Diversity?

New research shows how building design influences the economic diversity of a neighbourhood

Retrofit at Scale - Videos

Retrofit at Scale - Videos

Watch short presentations & responses from “Making Mass Retrofit a Reality” outlining what capabilities & capacities are needed for implementation.

COP26 Expectations

COP26 Expectations

Read this vital series of essays providing multiple perspectives on expected and needed outcomes from COP26.

Making Mass Retrofit a Reality

A webinar from CREDS and Buildings & Cities

Latest Commentaries

Mombasa City, Kenya. Photo: Sebastian Wanzalla

Brian Dean and Elizabeth Wangeci Chege (Sustainable Energy for All) respond to the Buildings & Cities special issue Alternatives to Air Conditioning and explain why thermal comfort is not only a construction industry problem to solve but needs to be placed in the policy agenda on global warming. Thermal adequacy is still not understood as an essential need for human survival and that governments have an essential role.

Image: Dedraw Studio, Getty Images

Tom Hargreaves and Nickhil Sharma (University of East Anglia) comment on contributions of the Buildings & Cities special issue Energy, Emerging Technology and Gender in Homes on the role of gender in technology development and the energy transition. This must be broadened further to social justice issues. A failure to do so risks fuelling resistance and pushback to new and emerging energy technologies. Three key avenues for future research and practices for a just energy transition and emerging technologies are set out.

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