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CityChanger Gemma Jerome: Building with Nature in Mind

Karl Dickinson - July 4, 2022 0

We claim a lot of land from the natural world to build ourselves places to live. What if we could construct in a way that works for humans and habitats? That’s the question which...

Construction

Malmö: City of Construction Circularity

Karl Dickinson - May 9, 2022 1

Sweden’s premier southwestern city Malmö is not only a crowning glory in Scandinavian architecture, nature, and quality of life, but also in sustainability. The city is gaining notoriety as a bastion in new construction...

Construction

CityChanger Dominik Campanella: Accelerating Circularity with Data

Karl Dickinson - April 28, 2022 0

Digitisation of the construction sector is an important step. It will simplify and streamline material reuse and carbon emission reduction. But this takes brains, cooperation between computing and construction, and a personal determination to...

Construction

A Functional Future – Ensuring Sustainable Public Buildings Are Fit for Purpose

Tanja Polonyi - April 14, 2022 0

Public Buildings are essential to every city. They can be the heart of the community, places where neighbours gather, children play and learn, and real life takes place. That’s why it’s even more important...

Construction

Modern Methods of Construction: Common Challenges and Solutions

Karl Dickinson - March 31, 2022 0

If the question is ‘how do we build enough to house our growing populations?’, some espouse modern methods of construction as the answer. Although MMC promises cleaner construction and improved comfort for residents, uptake...

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Recycling Construction and Demolition Waste with SeRaMCo

Karl Dickinson - March 17, 2022 0

Is there a market for recycled concrete? This was such a sizeable question that the EU part-funded a multi-million-Euro project to find out. Leading SeRaMCo, Christian Glock set out to ascertain how construction and...

Construction

CityChanger Trina Chakravarti: Champion of Modern Methods of Construction

Karl Dickinson - March 9, 2022 0

Traditional construction practices are emission-heavy. Switching to modern methods of construction (MMC) can help mitigate our impact on climate change, but what does that look like exactly? We turned to CityChanger Trina Chakravarti, Project...

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Recycling Concrete: Can We Really Reuse Construction and Demolition Waste?

Karl Dickinson - February 3, 2022 0

Concrete. As a staple of construction, it’s everywhere in our cities. What happens when a building has served its purpose? Could we recover, recycle, and rebuild with construction and demolition waste material? Would that...

Construction

Notable City Skellefteå: The Sky’s the Limit… in Wood

Karl Dickinson - January 27, 2022 0

One city in Sweden has been getting a lot of attention. The 20-storey plyscraper Sara kulturhus is one example of how notable city Skellefteå is pioneering the realms of wooden construction, but there’s a...

City Logistics

Cutting Back on Construction Traffic: How to Get Started

Mathis Hampel - January 24, 2022 0

Construction traffic is costly, dangerous and awfully polluting. A promising tool to radically reduce traffic are construction consolidation centres (CCC) or urban logistics hubs. At CCCs, construction materials are stored, traffic in and out...

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What a Waste: Global Good Practices of Urban Waste Management

Abbie Harby - December 27, 2021 0

From lack of planning to a shortage of resources or an absence of imagination when it comes to strategies, there are many reasons why responsible waste management falls through our fingertips. However, with the...

Construction

CityChanger Michaela Maresch: Lessons in Modular Construction

Karl Dickinson - December 6, 2021 1

Modular construction is emerging as a quick and reliable way to build new houses. Although these usually conform to a template, rolled out in their hundreds, Michaela Maresch had the guts to rethink the...

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How to Revitalise Cities: Doughnuts in Urban Development

Abbie Harby - November 3, 2021 0

Urban development isn’t always about the brand spanking new. It’s all well and good to build new modern constructions, but it’s even more essential to give those run-down, if not abandoned areas some love...

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