Simon Sturgis

Working for a low carbon built environment. ex-Chair @RIBA Sustainability Group, MD of #TargetingZero, author of @RICSnews and @RIBA Whole Life Carbon guidances

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See my @RIBAJ article on designing low carbon architecture:

https://t.co/8GmoSlE7SW

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The next government should make the Treasury responsible for the UK’s Carbon Budget. This would make CO2 as important as money in all decision making.

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See article on whole life carbon assessment https://t.co/3ujKwxiRYc

[Heritage Declares @Heritagedecl]

We're looking forward to this @LFArchitecture event, featuring friends of Heritage Declares @Henrietta_arch and @Simonsturgis ...

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With Dido Milne at the National Autistic Society Garden. Rain-Good for Plants, ok for buildings, bad for Humans.

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@BennettsRab And how long does it last? Assuming it’s all doubled glazed, it will all have to be replaced every 30 or so years. Not very resource efficient from any angle!

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See my second article in RIBAJ on the new RICS WLCA Standard, and what it means for Architects https://t.co/mGblBUyPEV

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@sundaegirl @ArchitectsJrnal Correct observation! The image was used to stress imaginative reuse of an unpromising existing building.

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See my article in @ArchitectsJrnal on why the future must include the past.
https://t.co/6NCbju4Zu5

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Interesting, Fosters is not the practice that springs to mind with ‘Eco’ anything.

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NEWS: @FosterPartners and @idriselba working on plans for Sierra Leone ‘eco-city’ https://t.co/D8G2oDO5bq

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You have an important point! What I was trying to get across was deploying imagination with unpromising existing buildings.

[Ruth Lang @sundaegirl]

@Simonsturgis @ArchitectsJrnal Completely agree here. But that Heatherwick project has got to be the worst example - have you seen how much additional concrete it took to « retain »?! 🤯

[Ruth Lang @sundaegirl]

@Simonsturgis @ArchitectsJrnal Completely agree here. But that Heatherwick project has got to be the worst example - have you seen how much additional concrete it took to « retain »?! 🤯

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@BennettsRab Yes

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A major reason for this is that we have offshored a lot of our manufacturing to places like China. So these reduction whilst welcome are a sign of decline.

[Chris Stark @StarkClimate]

Confirmation today (no surprises) that the UK outperformed its third carbon budget (CB3).

Under the Act, we are duty bound to offer advice on the handling of any ‘surplus’.

Our analysis and advice to Government will be published on 28th February.

https://t.co/FZPUEN3pDV

[BarbicanQuarterAction @BarbicanQuarter]

3/3:🤔
"Option 2 is the option that is most consistent with the approach favoured by the commercial bids in the City’s market testing exercise. Why was this then excluded?"

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2/3
"These proposals not only met the CoLC’s commercial requirements, but also met a whole range of UK, GLA and CoLC net zero, retrofit, and carbon policies for this site."♻️

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Simon Sturgis: 1/3 👏
"The CoLC received a number of credible and viable proposals for a ‘major refurbishment’ of the existing buildings. "

[Rab Bennetts @BennettsRab]

Astonishing

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Worth watching

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@ben_derbyshire @ArchitectsJrnal Well done Ben!!