Retrofitting our homes will be necessary if we are to meet net zero climate emergency goals in the built environment sector. Marion Baeli details how this can be achieved with a fabric first approach to minimise operational energy or space heating demand.
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Melanie Perkins has been helping Centrepoint with their Independent Living Programme.
Space standards are rightly applied to new homes however, are there circumstances where it should be possible to provide smaller, well-designed homes for a specific need?
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Our Associate, Cian Scanlon, has been highly commended for his entry ‘The disconnected office’ in this year’s BCO NextGen ideas project competition. A new concept for 2022, this idea generation competition challenged entrants to present their boldest, most innovative and creative ideas for the future workspace.
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The annual Mental Health Awareness Week provides an opportunity for the Architectural, Engineering and Construction Industry to broaden the discussion beyond recognition, understanding and support of mental health to more fundamental questions about the way our industry functions and how it could be improved to reduce the stress it innately creates.
Associate Director Matt Jones talks about his experience of mental health and the AEC industry.
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Retrofitting the UK’s building stock presents a colossal challenge, and with time fast-disappearing to meet our zero carbon emissions goals, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for London’s Planning and Built Environment met recently to discuss what needs to be done.
Siân Rearden reports on the latest APPG session held on 31st January, at which Marion Baeli (Partner at PDP London) was a panel member.
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As we all rightly focus on climate change, we are very aware that our practice can play a significant role in carbon reduction. We need to address the conscious planning, design, construction, and careful thinking of the maintenance and operation of our buildings. The question is how and what approach is needed for us to collectively realise our global net zero goals.
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There has been a surge in discussions to understand the importance of how the urban climate must adapt to those living longer. Exploring how cities and developers can positively influence a reinvented approach catered for the longer living, by understanding the needs of an ageing population and opening the conversation back towards a previously neglected market. Arjun Sampat and Lingge Yang investigate this new trend for our ageing population.
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We are thrilled to have completed our assessment for our carbon footprint, achieving an offset figure that is lower than expected, Farah El-Hakim explains our journey.
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Taking the form of a wonderful cluster of tree-like structures, the winning design ‘The Reverie’ has now been constructed at the Here East campus in Stratford and will host a series of events from 21st-30th August.
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If we look at whole life carbon in the context of progress over the past decades we can see why we now need to prioritise our efforts on embodied carbon if we are to meet our 2030 targets. Michelle Sanchez makes a compelling argument on our need to address embodied carbon.
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Students Samira Elbahja, Delilah Jamal and Shariyar Ahmed, won the People’s Pavilion competition with their design ‘The Reverie’. We’re so proud to have been able to support this brilliant young team of aspiring designers. Now they need help crowdfunding for the construction of the pavilion.
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It’s design development week for the young aspiring architects and designers taking part in East London’s People’s Pavilion project!
We have joined forces with Beyond the Box Consultants and Urban Symbiotics to support the young East Londoners taking part in the project.
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We’re pleased to lend our skills to support the People’s Pavilion – a competition to create, curate and host London’s first community space designed entirely by young people.
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A series of innovative and best practice case studies of residential low energy retrofit projects, illustrating what has been achieved in the UK.
Written by Partner, Marion Baeli, this book illustrates the work that has been undertaken to upgrade our existing building stock to enable them to respond to the imperative of climate change, improve energy security, and to soothe fuel poverty in a time of rising fuel prices.
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