Outputs (116)

Carbon reduction scenarios in the built historic environment (2020)
Report

To limit global warming a reduction in energy consumption and carbon emissions from the built environment is crucial. Despite pre-1919 buildings accounting for a large proportion of the existing building stock, the role of these buildings in contribu... Read More about Carbon reduction scenarios in the built historic environment.

Urban form and walkable environments (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter presents the evidence on the relationship between urban form and walking behaviours. Globally, lack of physical activity is a major public health concern, and regular walking has the potential to offer an accessible and achievable form o... Read More about Urban form and walkable environments.

Making HUGs: Crafting well-being benefits through social manufacturing (2020)
Journal Article

Irúsan or, canting for architects (2020)
Book

In 1931, architect Ivan Il’icˇ Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometres northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city, though presented as an inscription of the future into the vast void of Siberia, in fact st... Read More about Irúsan or, canting for architects.

Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (2020)
Report

Exactly one year following its establishment, the Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change (BACCC) has published the Annual Report on Year One to review its first year of operations and key contributions to Bristol’s response to the climate emerg... Read More about Annual report on year one - Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change.

Implications of using systematic decomposition structures to organize building LCA information: A comparative analysis of national standards and guidelines- IEA EBC ANNEX 72 (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Introduction: The application of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) technique to a building requires the collection and organization of a large amount of data over its life cycle. The systematic decomposition method can be used to classify building comp... Read More about Implications of using systematic decomposition structures to organize building LCA information: A comparative analysis of national standards and guidelines- IEA EBC ANNEX 72.

Reducing embodied impacts of buildings - Insights from a social power analysis of the UK and Sweden (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With one of the highest carbon footprints, the construction sector should be at the forefront of climate action. Reducing embodied impacts of construction also means ensuring that buildings are durable, low maintenance, and fit for purpose, while max... Read More about Reducing embodied impacts of buildings - Insights from a social power analysis of the UK and Sweden.

Draw of a Drawing (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Draw of a Drawing is a transcription of the installation Kaleidoscopic City (a survey of Edinburgh focused on the transitory elements of the urban). As such it marks the moment that the elements of the survey are projected upon a single surface. Und... Read More about Draw of a Drawing.

Collaboration for innovation in housing: The role of the civic university in delivering new homes in the city (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Birmingham School of Architecture and Design pioneered ‘live projects’ as a pedagogic model in schools of architecture in the UK and as part of this programme delivered a number of innovative housing projects in collaboration with the public sec... Read More about Collaboration for innovation in housing: The role of the civic university in delivering new homes in the city.

The dying patient: Taboo, controversy and missing terms of reference for designers—an architectural perspective (2020)
Journal Article

Contemporary society has grown seemingly detached from the realities of growing old and subsequently, dying. A consequence, perhaps, of death becoming increasingly overmedicalised, nearly one in two UK nationals die institutional deaths. In this arti... Read More about The dying patient: Taboo, controversy and missing terms of reference for designers—an architectural perspective.