RIBA Journal magazine: | Design in the making
Secret to converting up to 670,000 redundant historic buildings into homes revealed. Historic England guidance sets out key design considerations when transforming heritage properties into residential in bid to tackle the housing crisis. 11 October 2024. Intelligence.
Hindsight: Ken Yeang on blazing a trail for ecological design
Mar 25, 2022 · Ken Yeang talks about his five-decade-long career, creating his own experimental passive house in 1985 and how was only in the early 2000s that clients started asking for green buildings. Ken Yeang, 74, has been a pioneer ecological design since 1971. He founded Hamzah & Yeang in 1977 with Tengku Robert Hamzah, who he studied with at the ...
Navigating the Building Safety Act's position of Principal Designer
Nov 20, 2023 · On 1 October the Building etc (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2023 came into force, providing further clarity on how the government intends to implement the new regulatory regime introduced under the Building Safety Act 2022, Any project requiring a new Building Regulations application, from domestic house extensions to higher-risk buildings (HRBs), will now require two ‘principal duty ...
RIBA publishes new suite of Professional Services Contracts | RIBAJ
Oct 3, 2019 · The suite of RIBA Professional Services Contracts is being reviewed and expanded and a number of new contracts are in development. These include an Interior Designer PSC, which will be published in association with the British Institute of Interior Design; a Design & Build PSC; a Client Adviser PSC; a Planning Consultant PSC; an Information ...
How to calculate a building's operational energy | RIBAJ
Sep 9, 2022 · How to do the calculations. Energy performance in buildings is commonly measured in kWh/m 2 /yr, ie kilowatt hours of energy per square metre of building per year. It is sometimes referred to as an Energy Use Intensity (EUI) figure. A kilowatt hour (kWh) is a composite unit of energy equal to one kilowatt (kW) sustained for (multiplied by) one ...
The Archive | Design in the making - RIBA Journal
RIBA Journal is the largest circulation publication serving the architecture profession. Published monthly, plus its two-monthly Products in Practice supplement, it is the only magazine to reach nearly 28,000 RIBA members across UK and international markets.
The RIBA Plan of Work 2020 update analysed and explained | RIBAJ
Oct 28, 2019 · The 2020 Plan of Work responds to feedback on how Stage 2 works and particularly to different approaches to the timing of planning applications. It acknowledges adjustments required at the Stage 3 and 4 interface, depending on the procurement strategy. Industry has adopted terms such as Stage 3 minus or Stage 4 plus, on the basis that ...
Architects’ average 15% rise returns salaries to their long-term ...
Apr 1, 2023 · Architects’ average earnings on 1 April 2023: £50,000. A rise of 15% from last year. Average earnings keep up with inflation over the long-term. 13% work part-time. 5% unemployed or not working for other reasons. Architects have seen average earnings rise by the largest figure ever recorded – up by 15% on the year to April. That’s the ...
Top ten dos and don’ts | RIBAJ - RIBA Journal
Mar 5, 2015 · It is also worth noting that the lap should always be taken from the lowest row of fixings in whatever it is covering. 9. Fixing. The fixing of lead sheet is carried out in many different ways, all of which are dependent on the particular application. For instance, a lead bay on a roof with a pitch of up to 3 degrees differs in the arrangement ...
The Zabbaleen: what Cairo’s Garbage City could teach the West
Jan 10, 2024 · Hammad Haider’s photograph reveals how 80% of the city’s waste is profitably recycled by the Zabbaleen, or garbage collectors, that live in Manshiyet Nasser. Hammad Haider: Manshiyet Nasser (Garbage City), Cairo. November 2022 Samsung S10 phone. Cairo’s ancient City of the Dead has found its graveyards put to new, contingent use by the ...