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Religious heritage in the UK faces a funding crisis. Both the buildings and those who worship in them need to be considered.
The UK government aims to enforce beauty through the planning system’s design codes. But intangible qualities like beauty are best achieved by challenging architects – not constraining them.
Our buildings and infrastructure can only become sustainable if the sector shares, leases, reuses, repairs, refurbishes and recycles materials and products. A new report maps out out how to get there.
Urban farms can work in developing countries if farmers and architects are aware of conditions that favour food production in built spaces.
When buildings with difficult pasts are repurposed, the process often involves navigating between omission and selective remembrance.
Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, has a chief heat officer, the first in Africa. She has her work cut out for her.
A systematic review of thousands of studies around the world has found many aspects of our cities affect loneliness. But people’s relationship with their environment is complex and highly individual.
Having the ability to decide either to do something or not, and to act accordingly, is a basic definition of freedom. Smart buildings challenge this freedom.
Constructing and running buildings accounts for roughly a third of global energy use and emissions. So it’s alarming that a report to COP27 shows the sector is veering off course for net zero by 2050.
Nigeria’s built environment should ideally be part of a broader, integrated approach to crime prevention and community policing.
The success of the metaverse – whether people use it or not – will rely heavily on the environments that are created.
As we move through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, new predictive methods of testing can help monitor the spread of the disease. Environmental testing, like swabbing floors, is a useful tool.
Embodied emissions in buildings could be a hidden setback for carbon reduction targets.
One-tenth of global emissions result from the production and supply of building materials – and the construction process itself.
New research has found that low-rise urban environments are more space and carbon efficient than high-rise buildings which have a drastically higher carbon impact.
Structures are built to withstand a normal range of conditions. But what’s ‘normal’ is changing rapidly.
The built environment plays a pivotal role in lowering residents’ exposure to climate change driven risks.
The study of two hospitals was a first for researching the microbiology of the built environment in South Africa – a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding how to design healthier buildings.
Researchers are turning microbes into microscopic construction crews by altering their DNA to make them produce building materials. The work could lead to more sustainable buildings.
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Professor and Head of Department, Architecture, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Architecture and SARChI: DST/NRF/SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation (Positive Change in the Built Environment), Tshwane University of Technology
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Professor of Planning and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Senior lecturer in Sustainable and Climate Responsive Architecture, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Construction Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, South Western Sydney Local Health District
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, The University of Edinburgh
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Senior Research Fellow, Acting Director, CHETRE, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Global Urban and Social Studies, Sustainability and Urban Planning Program, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Murdoch University
