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t COP26, the eyes of the world are looking to the UK to see a conclusive set of carbon reduction proposals at the end of this vital summit. One of many current issues is that poorer countries, having been hammered by Covid, will be seeking investment from their richer counterparts in order to produce the carbon savings urgently needed, to try and slow the rapid decline of our environment.
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The solid examples of governments launching credible, far-reaching and nationwide carbon-cutting programmes may be depressingly few and far between (for example, Joe Biden’s Democrats are fighting among themselves about how to implement his Green New Deal, when there is little time to take action).
So in this vacuum, it is left to corporations and industries to come up with the workable solutions in the short- term. While these may be piecemeal and uncoordinated in terms of how they sit alongside each other, at least they represent concerted efforts. With time so tight, everything counts.
Of course, every ‘sustainable’ alternative must be interrogated on its own potential drawbacks, and Lithium battery production methods, and now hydrogen production for boilers, have come under the spotlight for their not necessarily being the ‘green panaceas’ we would hope for. ‘Green hydrogen’ does exist, however, where the copious amounts of electricity needed to produce the gas can be sourced from renewable sources. If the required investment is made, it may be the practical answer for upgrading millions of installed gas boilers across the UK, alongside the attempts of the heat pumps lobby to move us away from fuel-burning solutions.
A fascinating pilot study on Orkney is experimenting with green hydrogen for powering boats, boilers and ovens, and will produce many applicable ideas across a range of sectors. Oil companies are said to be waiting in line to take charge of green hydrogen production on the back of its findings, although it may be that it’s in such off-grid island settings that its use its most urgently needed if the current energy price crisis persists. It hasn’t as yet been tested on a mass scale within the UK gas network.
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Following the heating sector, the timber lobby has been mobilising around the net zero/COP26 agenda, fighting back against the attacks it has recently undergone post-Grenfell (despite there being no timber on that building’s cladding). A network of developers, designers and investors was launched pre-COP26, to provide a fund worth millions of Euros to “scale-up timber construction.” The Built by Nature initiative includes Arup, Lendlease and architects Bennetts Associates, along with modular housebuilder BokKlok, and will make grants of €50K-250K to “pioneering projects addressing barriers to building with timber.” These could include “innovations in timber buildings, feasibility tests for large-city-scale projects, new business models, and data collection schemes.”
Obviously there is strong scope here for UK architects to benefit, and CLT pioneer Waugh Thistleton has already engaged fully with the plan. Their multi-storey, and “pre-warrantied” residential project in collaboration with University College London fire engineers, is one of the first to win funding. Practice founder Andrew Waugh said that “we need to re-focus our efforts onto bio-based building materials,” Going beyond timber, you can read more about bio-based approaches in our conference report on page 6.
James Parker Editor
11.21
ON THE COVER... Prague-based architects petrjanda/brainwork used principles of aircraft camouflage to hide a striking new home in its semi-rural setting in the Czech Republic
LAZY HOUSE, ZLÍN, CZECH REPUBLIC
Despite the name, a home overlooking a Czech valley energetically embraces the connections between the building and its surroundings
CAPITASPRING, SINGAPORE A multi-level green atrium sits at the heart of BIG’s mixed-use skyscraper
Cover image © BoysPlayNice For the full report on this project, go to page 33
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