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How to Attract Considerable Investment for Large-Scale Sustainable Initiatives

Karl Dickinson - August 6, 2024

Finance is an unavoidable puzzle piece in making cities sustainable. With scaling a priority, leveraging enough money is a challenge. Too often, if forces us to focus on a single objective, when what we...

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Green Finance Institute: Accelerating Retrofits Through Investment

Urban Future - February 6, 2024

Retrofitting Europe’s built environment would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and position us closer to climate goals. It’s a tantalisingly tangible but costly outlook, and progress is slow. To change this, the Green Finance...

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Shallow & Deep – Different Dives into Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - June 25, 2021

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to decarbonising older properties. Each building has its own character, history, and flaws that need to be considered when choosing appropriate measures to make them energy efficient. These can...

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The Challenges of Psychology in Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - August 3, 2021

At CityChangers, we value the learning we can gain from bottlenecks, problems, and conundrums. Knowing the challenges and discovering the blockages provides a ground on which we can search for solutions. We’ve noticed a...

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The Challenges of Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - July 14, 2021

Telling the average person on the street to upgrade their draughty, crumbling home to save energy and, ergo, the planet might be too abstract to inspire action, met with responses like: “What difference can...

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The Challenges of Sustainable Construction

Abbie Harby - September 8, 2021

Encouraging people to change the way they’ve always done things is never going to be easy. While calls to construct buildings more sustainably may be met with scoffs and points to the price tag,...

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Be Happy With What You’ve Got: The Case for Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - June 14, 2021

What would your dream home look like? Some people will be lucky enough to build fanciful follies from scratch. The rest of us get to pick the choice cuts from pre-existing stock; but older...

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Retrofitting: Facts & Figures

Karl Dickinson - July 8, 2021

Populations are rising. We cannot build fast enough to accommodate everyone. We need to utilise older buildings for our living, working, and leisure needs. Retrofitting makes them future-proof, efficient, and climate-friendly, shaping the urban...

Construction

Young Leader Omar Zahran: Architecture as a Tool for People-Centred Cities

Karl Dickinson - July 10, 2023

How does so much historic architecture endure the ravages of time? It’s because the architects of yore knew how to build cities to suit their environment, and they did so to meet the needs...

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CityChanger Dominik Campanella: Accelerating Circularity with Data

Karl Dickinson - April 28, 2022

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...

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What a Waste: Global Good Practices of Urban Waste Management

Abbie Harby - December 27, 2021

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...

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Community Sociologist Jeni Cross: Building Better Retrofitting Behaviours

Karl Dickinson - May 4, 2022

A toxic mix of bad habits and infrastructure that prevents change is holding sustainability back. This is as true for retrofitting as anything. Community sociologist Doctor Jeni Cross has dedicated 20 years to researching...

Construction

Guide to Natural Materials in Construction: More Than Hobbit Houses and Mud Huts

Abbie Harby - August 23, 2021

Deep in the depths of the construction world, among the steel, cement and concrete, there are materials hidden, just waiting to be utilised. We’ve put together this guide exhibiting some of the main natural...

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