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Discussing some of the structural challenges facing Glasgow city centre and its historic architecture on @BBCRadioScot this morning
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Finally got round to reading this. Would recommend for a detailed yet readable look at the web of vested interests that are sustaining and profiting from the UK’s housing crisis.
Really does emphasise how reductive and banal the conversation is on housing.
“Planning reform” lol
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The hemp insulation by @IndiNatureCo is one of two UK products that have made it to the Built by Nature Prize semi-finals. 🥳
Congratulations to our members @IndiNatureCo - one of the 15 global semi-finalists in the Built by Nature Prize. builtbn.org/news/built-by-na…
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On Saturday #wind generated 61.6% of GB electricity followed by nuclear 15.5%, gas 8.2%, solar 5.2%, imports 4.8%, biomass 3.0%, hydro 1.7%, coal 0.2%, other 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation
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Scotland’s biggest city, a Victorian treasure, is falling into ‘
decline, and the council is not helping thetimes.co.uk/article/our-o…
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“One wonders when the orgy of destruction of all that is architecturally noble and attractive in Glasgow is going to stop,”
Not a quote from today, but one from a letter written to a Glasgow Newspaper in the 1970s.
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#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings
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Brilliant work from Danny Lucas and his team. By why isn’t the Council doing this…? @TMBC_Kent
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A great land based initiative in Glasgow. A community farm plan for council-owned vacant land - a charity which aims to help young people living in poverty has secured a licence to occupy the council-owned site. #Land
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Cruden begins work on second phase of award-winning Longniddry Village
#Construction #Housebuilding
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We look forward to meeting up with ASBP member Sam Baumber @IndiNatureCo at the @ScotEcoDesign workshop on 5 April. There are multiple benefits to using natural materials in construction - for people and the planet - even better if the supply chain is home grown/produced.
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I've been having a read of @HomeBuildersFed's new report - looking back at the last 20 years of housing policy, and the consequences of not building the number of new homes set out by @Barker4Kate's 2004 report. This is a depressing summary table: hbf.co.uk/documents/13439/HB…
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My piece in @heraldscotland on the potential of town centre living to deliver low carbon affordable homes and the role of land reform in enabling this heraldscotland.com/opinion/2…
@ScottishLandCom @improvserv @ArcDesSco @SFT_Scotland @ScotlandsTowns
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We have delivered over 250 of the UK’s most innovative net-zero ecological homes, using locally sourced, natural materials and advanced off-site construction with n-SIPs (natural structural insulated panels). Below is a video of one of our A3 homes being erected at Loch Lomond.
Looking back to day 1 @MAKARhomes Loch Lomond home, we now have a new lexicon for post oil-age homes; modelled not designed, manufactured not constructed, assembled not built - the net-zero future is already here, made in and for Scotland 2030
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All new buildings in Scotland constructed with a new building warrant are now to be fitted with clean heating systems as part of legislation that came into effect 1 April. BE-ST Innovation Champion Dan Gates examines the new legislation. ⤵️
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Free Lunchtime Webinar @UKHempcrete: Building and Renovating with Hemp Blocks, 5 April 2024 at 12.30
ukhempcrete.com
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This is a new apartment building in the Netherlands. It's really such a simple design and plainly detailed but I'd be so happy if this were the norm in England. Simple volumes with good windows, high quality brick, a touch of ornament and it even has underground parking.
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An innovative light gauge steel frame is being used as a complementary measure to our enhanced #timbersystems in Milton, north Glasgow where we are creating 48 #affordablehomes for @GlasgowHousing & @LowtherHomes
✔️ quality
✔️ efficiency
✔️ added value – at Glasgow, Scotland
