'Powering Down' Community Energy sector survey

Tuesday 26th May, 2015

Along with our friends at Carbon Coop we are carrying out a short survey on Community Energy groups and their involvement and interest in energy efficient retrofit. 

The survey can be filled in online here. Please fill in and pass on to others who you think may be able to help us.

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Carbon Coop

Powering Down Survey

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David Rudlin to launch Sheffield Civic Trust's "Year of Housing"

Wednesday 20th May, 2015

How can Sheffield provide the homes we need? Sheffield Civic Trust are launching a city-wide debate to discuss the future of housing in Sheffield.

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Sheffield Civic Trust

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Brentford Lock West: AJ Building Study

Monday 11th May, 2015

Really pleased to see the first phase of the URBED / Tovatt Masterplan for Brentford Lock West by Duggan Morris Architects written up as a AJ Building Study this month. The Riches Mikhail block, soon to be completed also looks great.

 

Click here to read the review

 

 

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AJ 

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4x4 Manchester is back

Thursday 7th May, 2015

URBED is helping the Academy of Urbansim and the Urban Design Group organise the 4x4 Manchester talks this year along with our friends at Turley, Creative Concern. Its free and booking is recommended.

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4x4 Manchester

@4x4manchester

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Somerleyton Road footprint workshop

igloo are acting as development managers for the Somerleyton Road project (a scheme being brought forward by Lambeth Council, Ovalhouse theatre and Brixton Green), which although not an igloo Regeneration Fund project, is using footprint® principles to guide the design. In April we held a footprint® workshop at no.6 Somerleyton Road with the design team, including masterplanner and architect Metropolitan Workshop and block architects Zac Monroe, Foster Wilson, Mae and Haworth Tomkins.

Wolfson Statement April 2015

URBED in the Financial Times

Monday 13th April, 2015

URBED, along with the finalists for last year's Wolfson Economics Prize, are urging politicians to take the politics out of settlements. They argue that a Royal Commision should decide in an impartial way where new settlements should be located, and new development bodies should have the power to culsorarily purchase the necessary land.

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URBED at Green Sky Thinking

Saturday 4th April, 2015

URBED's Marianne Heaslip will be speaking at an InnovateUK event as part of Green Sky Thinking in London on 21 April 2015. The event will provide the opportunity to share findings - both good and bad - from the recently completed InnovateUK (formerly TSB) Building Performance Evaluation programme. This investigated the actual performance of completed buildings to discover whether design stage low energy and environmental ambitions were met in reality, and what the reasons might be for any 'performance gap'.

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Sharpness Dock Public Consultation - March 2015

The exhibition boards are now available to view for the Sharpness Docks Estate public consultation!

We would really appreciate your feedback, so if you have the time:

1. Please follow the link to the exhibition boards under downloads>

2. Once you have looked at the boards please fill out an online feedback form here.

Retrofit Live 2015

Marianne from URBED and Jonathan from Carbon Co-op will be presenting at Retrofit Live on Thursday 30th April - 'Co-operate or die? Learning the lessons of delivering deep retrofit at scale via a Community Energy intermediary.'

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