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Watch the Climate Metrics presentations discussing approaches to measuring and managing mitigation in the built environment. From the special issue launch event at the "Beyond 2020" conference.
Watch the Climate Justice presentations discussing what built environment professionals can do to address climate justice.
Climate Justice webinar on Thursday 24 September 2020 11.00 - 13.30 BST to discuss what further work needs to be done, both by industry and the research community.
We are pleased to announce that B&C has been formally approved for inclusion in The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The journal has been awarded DOAJ's 'SEAL OF APPROVAL' that is given to only 10% of eligible publications.
This 3D 'digital twin' for London can be used for the monitoring, simulation and analysis of the building stock - for improving energy efficiency, reducing fuel poverty and targetting retrofit strategies.
Submissions to Buildings and Cities opened on 15 July 2019. We welcome authors from around the world. We offer a rigorous, high-quality review process with a double-blind peer review system.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about the ways in which Buildings & Cities operates during this disruptive period and we have decided to continue our activities with increased levels of understanding, support and flexibility.
Have attempts stalled to mainstream zero carbon knowledge and skills in the US architectural curriculum? Where is the impediment? Despite many bottom-up efforts, why are accrediation criteria lagging behind?
Jan Cromwijk and Veronika Schröpfer introduce new assessment and training tools to assist built environment practitioners and firms in assessing the gap for low carbon skills in order to improve their skills.
A series of coordinated principles and actions were recently created by the research community for policy makers, researchers and practitioners, through the Graz Declaration.
Elizabeth Shove reflects on the recent passing of Hal Wilhite, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oslo. Hal was also a member of the Editorial Board at Building Research & Information
Professor Ray Cole, Associate Editor of Buildings & Cities, has recently been awarded the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada. Alex Zimmerman discusses Ray's work leading up to this award.
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the Buildings and Cities journal. We are created by and for the research community that we serve. Our emphasis is on creating, supporting and maintaining a vibrant global and inclusive community of authors and readers.
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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
The importance of multi-roles and code-switching in living labs
H Noller & A Tarik
Researchers’ shifting roles in living labs for knowledge co-production
C-C Dobre & G Faldi
Increasing civic resilience in urban living labs: city authorities’ roles
E Alatalo, M Laine & M Kyrönviita
Co-curation as civic practice in community engagement
Z Li, M Sunikka-Blank, R Purohit & F Samuel
Preserving buildings: emission reductions from circular economy strategies in Austria
N Alaux, V Kulmer, J Vogel & A Passer
Urban living labs: relationality between institutions and local circularity
P Palo, M Adelfio, J Lundin & E Brandão
Living labs: epistemic modelling, temporariness and land value
J Clossick, T Khonsari & U Steven
Co-creating interventions to prevent mosquito-borne disease transmission in hospitals
O Sloan Wood, E Lupenza, D M Agnello, J B Knudsen, M Msellem, K L Schiøler & F Saleh
Circularity at the neighbourhood scale: co-creative living lab lessons
J Honsa, A Versele, T Van de Kerckhove & C Piccardo
Positive energy districts and energy communities: how living labs create value
E Malakhatka, O Shafqat, A Sandoff & L Thuvander
Built environment governance and professionalism: the end of laissez-faire (again)
S Foxell
Co-creating justice in housing energy transitions through energy living labs
D Ricci, C Leiwakabessy, S van Wieringen, P de Koning & T Konstantinou
HVAC characterisation of existing Canadian buildings for decarbonisation retrofit identification
J Adebisi & J J McArthur
Simulation and the building performance gap [editorial]
M Donn
Developing criteria for effective building-sector commitments in nationally determined contributions
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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.