"No-one retains a building that is not loved"
As 2021 draws to a close, RIBA president Simon Allford sets out how architects should be prioritising reuse to help fight climate change.
In the wake of the pandemic and in the face of the climate emergency, what role can ? and should ? architects play in shaping the future"
Globally, the built environment contributes almost 40 per cent of all energy-related carbon emissions. As a profession we therefore have a major opportunity and responsibility to have a positive impact.
This can only be achieved through deep and meaningful collaboration ? from clients to consultants, contractors, manufacturers, regulators, the public and governments too. Working together, we can ensure that buildings meet the sustainability standards that can and must be achieved. We must seek to preserve and minimise embodied carbon
Doing so will involve a radical alteration in the way we inhabit the ecosystem of our planet. And the UK's new green economy must help drive the greater design project that Buckminster Fuller presciently described in 1969 as the "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" ? so that we may best understand, manage, preserve, and sustain our planet and its finite resources.
So, what does this mean in practice" Retrofit, or as I prefer to call it, reinvention, must play an ever more significant role in how we design.
We must seek to preserve and minimise embodied carbon through prioritising the reuse and adaptation of existing buildings, and where this is not v...
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