Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈

🌏 One planet. Adaptive reuse. Sufficiency & enrgy efficiency. Community, consume less, share economy. Low-tech solutions. Qual Architect, Researcher, Teacher.

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

- Learnt so much from being a co-editor on this book.
- Bk is part of Prof. Sarah Sayce’s huge legacy.
- I contribute a chapter about vacancy data, often used to inform reactive urban policy
- My fave is chapter 5 - on regulation & policy development for extg buildings

[ICE Library @ICELibrary]

New E-Book: Resilient Building Retrofits.
Retrofitting commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency - what must be done, how it could be achieved?
Access here https://t.co/5v2cCRREL3

#resilience #climatechange #buildings

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Last post, I’m moving my SM posts to my private personal account, and Linkedin where there’s much more transparency on who engages with the content I post.
Happy to connect via insta (same handle as X) and on Linkedin. X was good fun but it had its day a while ago

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Excellent thread explaining global slump in housing affordability. Only developers with invested interests may say ‘its Planning’. Planning isn’t to blame! Monetising housing & poor financial mechanisms makes houses unaffordable & rots the stock faster than any period

[josh ryan-collins @jryancollins]

Last year I was commissioned by the UK ministry of housing to write a report on the demand side-drivers of the housing affordability crisis.
After some election-related delays, here it is. (1/13)
https://t.co/cpBpUZokZr

[Melbourne, Australia @Melbourne]

Name a more iconic Aussie silhouette... we'll wait 🦘💛

📍 Gembrook, Yarra Valley, a one-hour drive from Melbourne on Bunurong country
📸 via IG/melbourneadz

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

This week I’m touched by many msgs of support to a short eulogy I wrote to honour my Dad. I wish it wasn't the end of your time. As Scott-Holland wrote, ‘Death is nothing at all. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?’
My eulogy to Dad:

https://t.co/6YvuXIvz9A

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Jetlag gift - wide awake & enjoying the silence whilst my lovely fam are sound asleep. Only my bunny interupts, with lettuce crunching & nose nudges when I pause giving her pets. She is extra floofy atm due to changing weather. Fluff in my coffee, but a lovely start to weekend

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Sense of self in Collingwood is my favourite adaptive reuse - industrial architecture to beautiful bath house - pools, sauna, steam room. Bliss in the middle of urban inner city, nicely connected by trams to get home, and a few bars along the way :)
Perfect Saturday eve

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

She now only refers to me as CC Gill 🤣 Friends said I should change my name to it.
Advocating for a loved one in a medical emergency is never patronising nor insulting. I do not use negative terms. I share here to stand up & stop abusive behaviours, its and not ok nor normal

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Sadly, its now at least 4 weeks since my relative started with delirium. Despite advocating for them - suggesting on 19/7, their symptoms might be delirium (past experience of this) the geriatric consultant has confirmed delirium this week - 4 weeks later

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Turns out, it is delirium…but its now 4 weeks since onset, despite speaking out using my intuition & past experience of relatives with this exact condition prior to death. I do not get why, in an emergency, ppl cannot pause abusive behaviours, even for a short time

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

The abuse I have had, in trying to advocate for an elderly relative, is shocking.

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Their pattern of abuse is life-long & it is normal for them. Its really not normal though no matter how often repeated

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

End of thread

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

Been using my research skills this week to understand a medical condition called delirium. It’s something I’ve come across before with elderly relatives, and always been surprised by the lack on understanding about this life threatening condition 🧵

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

-causes permanent damage or death.

Not in the article, but from personal experience of relatives being diagnosed too late:
⁃geriatric consultants in the UK don’t seem up to date/well versed in understanding delirium yet
⁃Best research cluster is in US university hospitals

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

No longer supporting any of Musk’s platforms. My social media footprint is wider than X. Happy to connect to you on other platforms ❤️

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

@elyobo @gerrvvvv It will come down if demand rises. We need double glazing as a minimum in NCC for colder climate zones, higher standards is the answer to boost the market

[Dr Gill Armstrong MCIAT ARB ❤️🏙📈 @arch_lintel]

@PhilipThalis The transfer of essential infrastructure or services like water, electricity has been going on since the 80s. Corporate funds have worked out, sector by sector there is more profit in essentials than luxury goods. Housing stocks is the latest sector to transfer to corporates