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his month’s project report (Paradise SE11, Lambeth, page 20), is a fantastic example of design for disassembly, and getting towards a circular approach to making new workplaces. Also – with apologies to concrete and steel devotees – it’s pretty much all-timber, apart from the lift and stair cores, which turned


out to be an ‘innovation’ too far.


Stephen Cousins discovered how collaboration, including with the fi re service, was fundamental to realising this substantial CLT and glulam building. The result of compromising on the stair cores meant that the fi re offi cers were prepared to go further on risk in other elements of the building; making this an important example others may wish to emulate. The lack of design ‘ego’ apparent in creating an attractive, but fully demountable structure is commendable.


Everyone talks about the need for collaboration in so many areas, e.g. retrofi t. For timber construction to really take off, it has to happen at a variety of levels. The Timber in Construction Roadmap, which Government has adopted, clearly delineates how architects, engineers and developers have to collaborate and integrate their work early in projects, for MMC and mass timber approaches to be successful. However, for wide uptake at scale to really happen, ideas on how to collaborate with insurers, and insurance


bodies, needs to be put into the foreground. Educating the sector for greater understanding of how engineered timber performs in fi res is happening, but needs to continue, to counter received wisdom. The Government is unsurprisingly continuing to collaborate with, or at least talk to, the ARB, following the ongoing Chris Williamson furore which is seeing many architects question the credibility and worth of the title ‘architect’ itself. Apparently, they are working on the idea of registration for architects’ ‘functions,’ not just the name.


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Even rival events Futurebuild and UKCW London are joining the collaboration club. Following show organiser Media 10’s acquisition of the Futurebuild brand, it will take its place alongside UKCW London at ExCel from 12-14 May. However, Futurebuild will retain its title and differentiated identity as a more specifi er- focused offering for visitors. Given the construction sector’s huge (and potentially unrealistic) barriers currently, collaboration seems to be the fl avour of the month/year. A fi nal example of fruitful collaboration is our expanded 2026 sponsored round table programme, which is already well underway. We are writing up the report for our Water Effi ciency in Commercial Buildings event, and will by the time you read this have assembled experts to discuss progress on Low Energy Domestic Retrofi t. As well as Biophilic Design in Commercial Spaces also taking place in February, in March and April we will host two sessions on the Future Homes Standard, as it hopefully emerges. These sessions cover heating and renewables, and building fabric respectively. Later this year, our round tables will explore Embodied Carbon & Part Z, Passivhaus, MMC, Gateway 2, Design for Workplace Wellness, and Inclusive Bathroom Design. It’s already a very hectic, but incredibly exciting year of collaborative knowledge sharing between the supply chain, specifi ers and academia!


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PARADISE SE11, LONDON A mass timber-constructed workplace in Lambeth by FCBStudios has one of the lowest embodied carbon scores in its class


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