Richard Boyd

Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon, low-waste and just built environment in Europe.

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

32 cooperative dwellings in Barcelona

Inhabited by a self-organised and participatory group of neighbours

Designed by Vivas Arquitectos

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Hydrogen realism starts to replace hydrogen hype: A sober atmosphere at the @FinancialTimes #FTHydrogen Summit today.

We see higher not lower costs of hydrogen and slower not faster take up of production and demand than expected.

https://t.co/yEb3qXT4Rx

[ਇਮਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ | Imandeep Kaur @ImmyKaur]

Home after an amazing second day, visiting the most beautiful bio based material building in Norwich, with @CIVIC_SQUARE team, partners and neighbours, to draw deep inspiration and learnings for natural material retrofit at the street + neighbourhood infrastructure level.

Overwhelmed by how stunning and healthy the space felt, and reflecting // feeling very emotional about how these types of spaces need to be in the hands of people in their places. Astounded by the level of detail @ArchitypeUK and partners went into, around climatic adaptability and understanding the local context and economy.

If we have no carbon budget left, what does good look like? — was the question posed by @ScottwbMcAulay and @SebLaanLomas. Interested in everyone’s thoughts

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Last year was the hottest on record.

We urgently need to decarbonise our infrastructure and reach net zero.... and we need to do this while supporting low-income households, especially those already struggling with energy costs.

Read more: https://t.co/cccO7XuxoK

[Institute for Fiscal Studies @TheIFS]

NEW: Sure Start, England’s first large programme to provide holistic support to families with children under five, greatly improved disadvantaged children’s GCSE results.

Read @nridpathecon @Sarah_Cattan @carneiro_econ’s report, funded by @NuffieldFound: https://t.co/NiHZzVES3W

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

📢 NEW research!

The minimum wage is the single most successful economic policy in a generation.

Since it was introduced in 1999, it's boosted the wages of millions of Britain’s lowest earners by £6,000 a year.

Read now ⤵️ https://t.co/GfhfS0vb1g

[Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction @Join_GlobalABC]

🏡🏗 Growing global buildings and construction emissions 🏭📈 and slowing investments 💰 and policy 📄 efforts highlight that we are NOT on track.

Read the latest #BuildingsGSR 👉 https://t.co/eYLCmEE0ui

#BuildforClimate

[Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction @Join_GlobalABC]

🌍 We’ve come to the end of a successful Buildings and Climate Global Forum!
💚 1400+ participants
📑 70 countries endorsed the "Declaration de Chaillot"

Read the Declaration 👉 https://t.co/f6OqpdLMJb

#BuildforClimate

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

The @IEA just published two fascinating reports

Here are some of the best charts

1/

Clean energy is growing twice as fast as fossil fuels

[EcoCocon - Straw Wall System @Ecococon]

We're happy to report steady progress on our upcoming automated factory🌱

You are what you eat, and the same applies to buildings and materials. Except our factory is what it produces – structural timber-straw panels💪

Production is set to launch as early as Q3 2024.

[Richard Boyd @RichardCBoyd]

@BarnabasCalder @FlorianUrban_ I haven't got an answer but I would love to know what you find - also curious about this question. I wonder if the IEA has anything on it for the macro-level?

[Timber Development UK @TimberDevUK]

Today we have released average weighted carbon data for the 10 major timber product categories – covering 95% of the timber consumed in the UK – completely free for all to access.

👉 https://t.co/pTysjnME1F

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Instead of burning timber taken from demolished buildings, we can use it to create new CLT to act as structure in new buildings

Amazing research here https://t.co/Dcoe4UZ8iY

[Leilani Farha 🍉 @leilanifarha]

Student housing is being taken over by private equity + other financial firms. Is it for the good of students? Of course not! It's become a profit making asset class!

Read my piece in the @guardian

https://t.co/sBYHEjuRKI

[European Sleeper @EuropeanSlpr]

There's no greater feeling than pedaling your way through a city or countryside, soaking in every scenic detail. And guess what? Now you can bring your beloved bike on board our night train!⁠
For just €19, you can secure your bike's spot on our journey alongside you! 🚴

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

You’ve heard about Antarctic sea ice lows - well, here’s the consequences.

Over 9,000 emperor penguin chicks from colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea are thought to have died in November 2022.

The sea ice they lived on broke up early, before they'd developed waterproof feathers.

[Dr Charlie Gardner (also on the blue place) @CharlieJGardner]

Happy 111th birthday to this little one

[The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone]

Czech Railway's new ComfortJet carriages will be used on a new Prague-Berlin-Hamburg-Copenhagen train from 2026...

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Construction material use in Europe

- 74% of this material is concrete
- 75% is used to build housing
- 54% is used specifically in single-family homes

Construction demolition generates 124 million tonnes a year - equivalent to 12,000 Eiffel Towers

https://t.co/v3RYpJhf2v

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

This is perhaps the most innovative adaptive reuse of office to residential I’ve seen.

Office = left. Residential = right

Who would have thought of turning the core into bathrooms and putting elevators and stairs on the perimeter?

https://t.co/Tn0JXCcNLT