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e-architect
MAY 23, 2023
Around 750 applications have been opened with the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) since its registration process for high-rise buildings opened last month. All high-rise residential buildings must be registered with BSR by law. Its launch is the biggest change in building safety for a generation.
Deezen
MARCH 22, 2023
Architects enthusiastic about mass timber must improve their understanding of fire safety or risk disaster, experts tell Dezeen as part of the Timber Revolution series. In Finland, the maximum permitted height for a residential building with a load-bearing timber structure and no sprinklers is two storeys.
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Deezen
MARCH 29, 2023
As part of our Timber Revolution series, Dezeen asked mass-timber experts about the ongoing race to build ever-taller wooden buildings. For most buildings, tall timber does not make sense," said Arup fellow Andrew Lawrence. Timber's natural home is low-rise construction," he told Dezeen.
BD+C
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth assessment report on climate change is an urgent call to action for the building industry. The report outlines a “last chance” opportunity for global society to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to limit average global temperature rise below 1.5°C
Deezen
MARCH 20, 2023
As we continue our Timber Revolution series , we look at Australia's first mass-timber high-rise apartment building, which was built from cross-laminated timber grown in Austria. Built in 2012, the 10-storey Forté block was the world's tallest timber residential building – measuring 32 metres tall – when it was completed.
Deezen
MARCH 21, 2024
As the cost of living continues to rise and the availability of crisis-support services diminishes, a growing number of people are unable to afford to furnish these homes, meaning they are sometimes forced to live in a harsh environment for months at a time. Top: before – many UK social-housing residents live with furniture poverty.
Deezen
MARCH 28, 2024
Eamon McGoldrick, the managing director of trade body National Federation of ALMOs – council-housing management companies – added that local authorities may be less inclined to demolish social housing as they spend increasingly large portions of their budgets responding to rising homelessness.
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