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Localism is key to saving high streets, AJ100 lunch hears
A cookie-cutter approach to filling retail units is part of the reason high streets are failing, Preston Benson of community-focused developer Really Local Group told an AJ100 lunch audience
Tag: Reuse
Architects risk ‘reputational Russian roulette’ over demolition projects
Architectural historian and campaigner Barnabas Calder has warned architects at an AJ100 lunch against playing ‘reputational Russian roulette’ by working on carbon-heavy projects
Cany Ash: ‘Risk-averse QSs and contractors overprice retrofit projects’
In preparation for her World Architecture Festival panel discussion on Carbon, Specification, Retrofit and Re-use, Cany Ash speaks to Rupert Bickersteth
Government acknowledges AJ RetroFirst campaign
The government has given its initial response to the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign for re-use of existing buildings amid growing calls for a green recovery from Covid-19
RetroFirst campaign goes to government
With 250 individuals and organisations across the industry now backing RetroFirst, the AJ has written to government ministers calling for reforms in three key areas of construction: tax, policy and procurement
Put your poster up! Support AJ’s RetroFirst campaign
Your support will strengthen our campaign demands in tax, policy and procurement when we present them to government, says Emily Booth
Rotor: ‘In demolishing, developers do not consider the true cost to society’
Rob Wilson talks with Maarten Gielen, one of the co-founders of Rotor, a Brussels-based design practice which champions the reuse of construction materials
RetroFirst Stories: How OMI reinvented a 1950s warehouse for a homelessness charity
The latest in a new AJ series looking at architects who have saved buildings from the bulldozers or brought them back from the brink of ruin
Virtuous circles: Can reusing building materials in new projects go mainstream?
Reusing building materials in new projects could significantly reduce the industry’s carbon emissions. Fran Williams looks at how the circular economy is faring in UK construction