Sustainability Stories
A collection short stories highlighting great work at the intersection of sustainability and facades. Our members’ stories curated by the CWCT. Members may submit a story for review by completing the form here.

Enhancing Biodiversity

Designing out carbon
The team adopted a more a dynamic approach to minimising embodied carbon within their design decisions on the 5 Broadgate project.
#lowcarbon

Monitoring emissions in fabrication
Dane Architectural have adopted a carbon emission monitoring platform to better understand their greenhouse emissions and focus their carbon reduction actions.
#lowcarbon

Challenge the Brief
Justification for the retention of the existing façade was a pivotal change in approach to the refurbishment scheme for 1 Finsbury Avenue.
#buildnothing

Reusing Components
Reusing façade components eliminates the carbon emissions associated with the manufacture of new materials. This is exemplified on the recent refurbishment of 1 Triton Square, London.
#buildless #circularity