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Retrofitting

How to Excite People About Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - January 24, 2023 0

Energy Team and community leaders hosting a gamified training session in Dromiskin. Image Credit: Energy Team Big cities can learn a lot from smaller communities. Dunleer, a town in the northeast of the Republic of...

Retrofitting

Lyon Confluence: How a District is Retrofitting Heritage Buildings

Karl Dickinson - September 13, 2022 0

SPL Lyon Confluence is carrying out a stand-out urban renewal project in a once-deprived district of central Lyon. Project Manager Etienne Vignali describes how this offers a significantly chance to undertake a large-scale decarbonisation...

Sustainable Buildings

Sustainable Buildings Glossary: Key Terms & Technologies

Karl Dickinson - June 11, 2021 2

In case the world of sustainable buildings, planning, retrofitting, and construction is new to you, the CityChangers team has put together a quick-reference glossary to help you navigate some of the most common and...

Construction

CityChanger Birgit Rusten on Sustainable Architecture and Pilot Projects

Tanja Polonyi - June 22, 2021 0

Making your city’s buildings sustainable is a big aspiration and not easy. However, one thing that definitely helps are powerful examples of architecture that showcase the immense possibilities this field holds. One expert for...

Retrofitting

Geography Matters: Regional Requirements for Retrofitting

Karl Dickinson - September 22, 2021 0

Surprisingly, geography has a big part to play in the renovations we make to our built environment. Elements around the world pose different problems. While one city experiences flooding, another is dealing with desertification....

Retrofitting

What Is Retrofitting? – Unlocking A Building’s Potential

Karl Dickinson - June 9, 2021 0

Ever-greener attitudes and regulations ensure new builds, that accommodate growing populations, are efficient and climate-ready. But what about the plethora of existing ones? We can’t just bulldoze them all and start again. So, how...

Energy

How to Motivate the Transition to Community Energy

Karl Dickinson - March 2, 2022 0

Community energy is an agent of decarbonisation. Transition in the sector is gaining momentum. How can we motivate people to get involved and maintain that trajectory? We asked Éva Goudouneix, Community Development Manager with...

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

Sustainable Schools – Education Fit for the Environment

Tanja Polonyi - June 25, 2021 0

With the climate crisis growing, teaching children about sustainability should be an obvious addition to their education. However, there are big discrepancies in countries’ curriculums and the resources given to teachers. In this article,...

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...

Energy

Notable City London: The Transition to Community Energy

Karl Dickinson - September 10, 2021 0

Widescale social housing retrofit projects led by local authorities are not uncommon. Yet many energy refits still tend to focus on changes at the microscale – in single buildings. Does it have to be...

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...

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