McKillop Smith - Chartered Building Surveyors

16/05/2018

https://www.archdaily.com/894497/meet-the-15-finalists-in-archdailys-2018-refurbishment-in-architecture-awards?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ArchDaily%20List&kth=2,722,799

The finalists have been announced in ArchDaily's first ever Refurbishment in Architecture Awards, with 15 projects from 5 continents making the list.

04/05/2018

Here's the link to the - The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse documents

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04/05/2018

Having recently just attended both our annual professional institution's conference and the World Built Environment Summit - https://ww2.rics.org/uk/wbef/ in the UK over these last two weeks it has been further impressed upon me of the urgent need for responsible long-term planning in the built environment.

To combat climate change we as individuals and we as a nation need to continually do more to reduce unnecessary waste and make responsible choices when it comes to maintaining existing assets and developing new ones.

Reduce, reuse and recycle should be a philosophy that spans across all parts of our lives and decision-making. Focusing on the built environment - we should reduce the resources we use - water, energy and new materials; we should reuse resources as much as we can, adapting them to suit present needs and when they cannot be adapted any more we should recycle these assets so that they can become useful once more.

We must close the loop of this cycle of use by thinking through each stage of a building or other asset's lifecycle from design to demolition, cradle-to-grave. The cost of an asset projects out beyond the economics of it's construction phase. It is measured in the performance of that asset over it's lifespan.

Gibraltar's existing building stock can rival any new development, with careful thought and sensitive adaptation. We must rethink how we use our built assets, as this will reduce our development burden on the environment whilst strengthening our cultural identity, reuse and revitalise our existing significant places and spaces and recycle our linear thinking to create sustainable cyclical development that enriches Gibraltar as our home, as our gift to those who visit us and for past, present and future generations.

WBEF is a global network of professionals aimed at combining knowledge, skills and resources to shape the environment global populations need.

04/05/2018

https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/greenest-historic-building-one-thats-right-context/26182/

04/05/2018

https://www.buildwithrise.com/stories/tear_down_or_renovate

Ever wonder what makes more sense - tearing down and starting new, or renovating?

04/05/2018

https://www.archdaily.com/204449/the-greenest-building-quantifying-the-environmental-value-of-building-reuse

The Preservation Green Lab at the National Trust for Historic Preservation has recently published their study The Greenest Building: Quantifying the...

04/05/2018

http://science.time.com/2012/01/27/leed-from-behind-why-we-should-focus-on-greening-existing-buildings/

In an era of LEED-certified construction and growing concern for sustainability, it comes as a surprise that constructing new, energy-efficient buildings can be less eco-friendly than renovating old ones.