In partnership with Ulster University and the Royal Society of Ulster Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is bringing the Carbon Counts exhibition to Belfast.

The exhibition draws together key metrics for 10 materials including steel, aluminium, concrete, and timber, representing the embodied carbon impacts of each one. The embodied carbon of a building is the carbon emitted in the processes involved in the creation of these materials -  from the extraction, processing, manufacture and packaging of the materials; their transport to and construction on site, maintenance over their life span and what happens to them after the building is demolished.

By understanding the embodied and emitted carbon in the construction and life cycle of a building, we are able to make better-informed choices to improve the impact of the buildings we create on the environment.

Welcoming news of the exhibition’s arrival at the Belfast campus – the only site it will visit in Northern Ireland, Professor Paul Clarke, Professor of Architectural Design at Ulster University, said: “We are delighted to be working with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to bring the Carbon Counts exhibition to our new Belfast campus. This exhibition offers a window on the nature of familiar construction materials and reveals and visualises their associated carbon footprints and ecological impact. As architects and designers this is critical in addressing responsibly and ethically the design and conservation of our shared built environment amidst our climate crisis.

The exhibition itself has been designed to have a low environmental impact while ensuring a strong visual presence and longevity. Tall ‘totems’ made of recycled wood house a sample of each material inside glowing acrylic tubes. The size of each material sample varies – an exact equivalent of 1kg of CO2 emitted by its manufacture.

https://carboncounts.fcbstudios.com/

What makes up the cultural heart of our town? Is it the people or the buildings, the past or the present, the language or the landscape?

Of Time and Place is a free public exhibition celebrating Huddersfield and its surrounding area: its culture, language, landscape, architecture and history.

Of Time and Place opens at Huddersfield Art Gallery on 10 February 2023. Conceived as a wander through the cultural landscape of Huddersfield, it takes in architectural landmarks, celebrations of vocabulary, past memorials of loved ones, snapshots of daily life and questions of permanence over the temporary. It encourages new ways of seeing and of experiencing your surroundings. It asks you to look up and look out, to feel and to touch. 

Curated by FCBStudios, the exhibition is part of their wider engagement with the community alongside Kirklees Council’s ambitious Cultural Heart plans, which will revitalise the centre through the repurposing of historic buildings, and the creation of new arts culture and leisure venues.

In this exhibition of hands-on activities, archive material, community-led content and specially commissioned pieces, we ask visitors to get involved, to make, create, watch and learn, sit and think, and leave your mark.

Visit the exhibition website: oftimeandplace.fcbstudios.com

In partnership with Ulster University and the Royal Society of Ulster Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios is bringing the Carbon Counts exhibition to Belfast.

The exhibition draws together key metrics for 10 materials including steel, aluminium, concrete, and timber, representing the embodied carbon impacts of each one. The embodied carbon of a building is the carbon emitted in the processes involved in the creation of these materials -  from the extraction, processing, manufacture and packaging of the materials; their transport to and construction on site, maintenance over their life span and what happens to them after the building is demolished.

By understanding the embodied and emitted carbon in the construction and life cycle of a building, we are able to make better-informed choices to improve the impact of the buildings we create on the environment.

Welcoming news of the exhibition’s arrival at the Belfast campus – the only site it will visit in Northern Ireland, Professor Paul Clarke, Professor of Architectural Design at Ulster University, said: “We are delighted to be working with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to bring the Carbon Counts exhibition to our new Belfast campus. This exhibition offers a window on the nature of familiar construction materials and reveals and visualises their associated carbon footprints and ecological impact. As architects and designers this is critical in addressing responsibly and ethically the design and conservation of our shared built environment amidst our climate crisis.

The exhibition itself has been designed to have a low environmental impact while ensuring a strong visual presence and longevity. Tall ‘totems’ made of recycled wood house a sample of each material inside glowing acrylic tubes. The size of each material sample varies – an exact equivalent of 1kg of CO2 emitted by its manufacture.

https://carboncounts.fcbstudios.com/

What makes up the cultural heart of our town? Is it the people or the buildings, the past or the present, the language or the landscape?

Of Time and Place is a free public exhibition celebrating Huddersfield and its surrounding area: its culture, language, landscape, architecture and history.

Of Time and Place opens at Huddersfield Art Gallery on 10 February 2023. Conceived as a wander through the cultural landscape of Huddersfield, it takes in architectural landmarks, celebrations of vocabulary, past memorials of loved ones, snapshots of daily life and questions of permanence over the temporary. It encourages new ways of seeing and of experiencing your surroundings. It asks you to look up and look out, to feel and to touch. 

Curated by FCBStudios, the exhibition is part of their wider engagement with the community alongside Kirklees Council’s ambitious Cultural Heart plans, which will revitalise the centre through the repurposing of historic buildings, and the creation of new arts culture and leisure venues.

In this exhibition of hands-on activities, archive material, community-led content and specially commissioned pieces, we ask visitors to get involved, to make, create, watch and learn, sit and think, and leave your mark.

Visit the exhibition website: oftimeandplace.fcbstudios.com

What makes up the cultural heart of our town? Is it the people or the buildings, the past or the present, the language or the landscape?

Of Time and Place is a free public exhibition celebrating Huddersfield and its surrounding area: its culture, language, landscape, architecture and history.

Of Time and Place opens at Huddersfield Art Gallery on 10 February 2023. Conceived as a wander through the cultural landscape of Huddersfield, it takes in architectural landmarks, celebrations of vocabulary, past memorials of loved ones, snapshots of daily life and questions of permanence over the temporary. It encourages new ways of seeing and of experiencing your surroundings. It asks you to look up and look out, to feel and to touch. 

Curated by FCBStudios, the exhibition is part of their wider engagement with the community alongside Kirklees Council’s ambitious Cultural Heart plans, which will revitalise the centre through the repurposing of historic buildings, and the creation of new arts culture and leisure venues.

In this exhibition of hands-on activities, archive material, community-led content and specially commissioned pieces, we ask visitors to get involved, to make, create, watch and learn, sit and think, and leave your mark.

Visit the exhibition website: oftimeandplace.fcbstudios.com

Join Agata Baranowka, Associate at FCBStudios on a visit to the recently completed Globe Point in Leeds. FCBStudios and CEG have completed the 37,800 sq ft seven-storey office development on Globe Road, marking the first new build office to be delivered in Leeds in 2022. Part of the Temple Leeds development, Globe Point provides next generation workspace for over 400 people and its striking flat iron design offers spectacular views across the city from the roof terrace gardens. Designed to BREEAM Excellent, the workspace maximises natural daylight to deliver healthy, flexible workspaces. The ground floor café kitchen and business lounge will open in autumn creating a vibrant use at this site which lies just a few minutes’ walk from Leeds City Station’s southern entrance.

Following the tour, delegates are invited to head to The Midnight Bell for drinks and networking.

Ian McLaren has had an incredible life and career and The Modernist Society are very pleased to announce an 'In Conversation' evening with him. This is sure to be a fascinating evening for design fans and modernists alike. 

This is a fundraising event to raise much-needed funds for The Modernist Society.

In this lighting CPD, FCBStudios architect Steve Wilby joins Lighting designer Ed Vickery from Studiotect and Lighting supplier Darren Worley of Traxon E:cue to talk about the design and delivery of the four-storey digital media facade at SODA, Manchester Metropolitan University

Read more about SODA here

The built environment accounts for 39% of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. As 85% of commercial buildings do not meet Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) Band B, urgent action is needed to ensure that the property industry contributes to national Net Zero ambitions.

This free-to-attend Insider networking breakfast will hear from an expert panel with ready-made solutions for improving sustainability in real estate through innovative techniques, materials, funding and partnerships. In addition, we will hear what adaptations can be made to existing building structures to ensure they not only become energy efficient but also are properties which businesses want to occupy.  

Speakers include: Paul Newby, technical director, Wates Construction: Paul Pavia, head of development, MEPC, Richard Dunn, partner – agency, Sanderson Weatherall and Amanda Whittington, partner, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. Amanda co-leads architect FCBStudio’s workplace sector, reviewing future trends and principles of good design. She leads on a number of high-profile commercial developments nationwide.

Zak World of Façades is an international conference series on façade design & engineering. The conference will showcase sustainable innovations and challenges in the construction industry pertaining to the building envelope and will also display latest technological solutions from leading solution providers.

Amanda Whittington, Partner at FCBStudios and Alina White, Associate at FCBStudios will present on the topic of beauty and material choice, discussing the ceramic and brick façade designs of Battersea Exchange, Globe Point,  and Three Chamberlain Square. 

With the 2022 summer being the joint-hottest on record for the UK, and the likelihood of climate change bringing increasing hot and dry summers, how do we manage overheating of existing education buildings?

Poorly ventilated and unsuitably hot classrooms affect the performance and health of children and teachers- we need to look at ventilation strategies and other sun protection options to provide safer, more effective environments.

Join Helen Taylor, Joe Jack Williams and Matt Isherwood at this interactive workshop where they will be inviting discussion and recording ideas on ways to minimise the risk of overheating in existing buildings and provide information and practical advice to reduce discomfort.

The Open House Festival in London will take place 8th - 21st September 2022 for two weeks of city exploration.

Battersea Exchange creates 290 new homes, 21% of which are affordable, a new two-form entry primary school and around 4000 sqm of commercial space for shops, offices and restaurants, as well as a new entrance to Queenstown Road Station.

Join architects from Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios for a tour of Battersea Exchange, exploring the space and the architecture. 

Reuse Recycle Reimagine: A day of talks and presentations by leading architects and experts celebrating the latest innovation and evolution in construction and design:

Examining changing practices with current examples of creativity, and ideas of what might be possible, they will ponder available opportunities as we continue to strive for a more holistic way of living on one planet.

Speakers at the event will include Peter Clegg (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios), Francis Fawcett (Cooke Fawcett); Sarah Featherstone (Featherstone Young); Duncan Baker Brown (Bakerbrown Studio Brighton); Emmanuel Vercruysse and Kate Davies (Design + Make); Samantha Bunyan (Cecence) and Nigel Gervis (Ty-Mawr). Individual presentations will be followed by panel discussion and audience Q&A.

The Open House Festival in London will take place 8th - 21st September 2022 for two weeks of city exploration.

Join us for a tour of Unity Place, the latest phase of Brent Council’s twenty-year South Kilburn Regeneration, led by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, Gort Scott, Grant Associates, and Emma Sweeney, Brent Council.

Unity Place is the latest phase of Brent Council’s twenty-year South Kilburn Regeneration in North West London. Two clusters of modern mansion blocks replace two derelict 1960’s towers. The scheme re-integrates the site and its communities into the wider South Kilburn neighbourhood.

Women in Property South West hosts a networking visit to Bath Abbey with a tour by Synergy and FCBStudio, of the recently completed Footprint Project.

Bath Abbey has been the centre for Christian faith in the UNESCO City of Bath for more than 1,300 years. The Footprint Project - a £19.3 million programme of restoration, building works and interpretation - ensures that it remains so for future generations, through repair and conservation work and much-needed new facilities. Initiated to conserve and stabilise the failing Abbey floor, it has made transformational improvements to accessibility, sustainability and hospitality, for everyone using and visiting the building.

Spaces are limited, so please ensure that you book early to avoid disappointment.

Open Door is a UK-China dialogue on architectural heritage and regeneration, a collaboration between RIBA and the British Council to share examples of sustainable heritage and regeneration in the UK and China. 

Moderated by Kim Deng, Wallpaper* China, the evening will include talks from:

Rehana Mughal, British Council China,
Umi LYU, RIBA head of development China
Ben Derbyshire, Head of the Historic Places Panel
Yinwu HUANG, Shanghai Jiao Tong Schoo of Design
Alex Morris, FCBStudios
Hao WANG, Anonymous Architects
Hui ZHAI, Kunming University of Science and Technology
Wanli MO, Editor of Architecture China

The HEDQF Annual Conference 2022 will be held at Cardiff University, which has recently undertaken an ambitious and transformative programme of estates investments to provide it with the facilities for the 21st century.

Dev Biddlecome, Director of Estates and Campus Facilities at Cardiff University will open the conference and give an introduction to the university’s recent investment in buildings. followed by visits to the Centre for Student Life by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (with FCBStudios Partner Andy Couling), Abacws, by Stride Treglown with Adjaye Associates, sbarc/spark  by Hawkins Brown and the Translational Research Hub by HOK.

The second day of the conference will be introduced by Dr Ghazwa Alwani-Starr, QMUL, HEDQF Chair, and will focus on designing for the new world: sustainability, zero carbon, community, research, enterprise and innovation, smart campuses, and design for new ways of learning and teaching, wellbeing and interactions between the physical and digital worlds. 

Please note, the date of this event has changed from 23rd June due to planned tube and rail strikes.

We are teaming up with our good friends at PechaKucha to put on an evening of faced-paced presentations which respond to the word 'Act' and explore what it can mean to different people working across the industry. Activism, Social Value, Climate Change, Diversity and Inclusion, the ‘role’ of the architect, drivers for change, – how do they, can they, should they or shouldn’t they ‘act’?

As with all PechaKucha events, this promises to be lively, thought-provoking and inspirational. A carefully curated line-up of speakers share their thoughts and ideas against a backdrop of images.

This is the first live event we have held in two years, and we are looking forward to opening our doors for this year's LFA.

For information on our speakers and to register for free click on the link here

In 2022 Forest of Imagination continues its radical response to the global environmental crisis through creativity & research. 

Commonwealth partners including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Commonwealth Association of Architects, the Commonwealth Association of Planners and the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, in collaboration with the Government of Rwanda and The Prince’s Foundation, have come together to issue a Call to Action on Sustainable Urbanisation across the Commonwealth, to advance sustainable urbanisation in the Commonwealth through the Commonwealth Sustainable Cities Initiative.

The event directly contributes to the overarching CHOGM theme of ‘Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming’ and will complement the work being undertaken in other forums. It will focus on approaches to ensure citizens are at the heart of making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

FCBStudios Senior Partner Peter Clegg joins Elizabeth Chege, World Green Building Council, Prof Ian Rowlands, University of Waterloo Canada and Dr Lucy Stevens, Practical Action, on the panel for this side event to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings to discuss Accelerating Climate Action.

Member states, both large and small, are already facing the impacts of climate change and rapid urbanisation, while the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded these impacts, resulting in one of the worst global health and economic shocks of recent times.

In 2022 Forest of Imagination continues its radical response to the global environmental crisis through creativity & research. 

Practice Action builds on themes from the AD Practice Guide and aims to provide architecture professionals with the practical skills and confidence to pursue more sustainable and regenerative practice models.

This series of 5 Masterclasses and 5 complementary conversations bring together  industry experts to get you up to speed

This session is aimed at supporting practitioners to measure and reduce their impact: to develop an understanding of the relative impact of project and business carbon footprints, learn what tools are available to calculate carbon impact and have a live demonstration of calculation tools.

Learn how best to measure the impact of your office - reporting against your scope 1-3 emissions with Ben Hopkins, Associate, Bennetts Associates. Then learn to measure project impacts through carrying out early-stage life cycle assessments Joe Jack Williams, Associate and researcher, FCBStudios.

Improve your understanding of best practice metrics and targets recommended by the industry.

Hear Geoff Rich, Partner, and Joe Jack Williams, Associate / Researcher and Passivhaus Consultant speak at FOOTPRINT+ in Brighton.

Over three days, The Lawns of the glorious Brighton seafront will be transformed into a meeting ground for developers, local authorities, housing associations, investors, and the managers of large estates, to discuss how to action state of the art methods to achieve Net Zero in real estate.

With a focus on four topics:

Retrofit and the circular economy
Efficient Buildings
Zero Carbon Energy
Financing the Carbon Revolution

Geoff Rich will speak at a session on how designers and building managers balance energy reduction with preserving historic buildings. And Joe Jack Williams will speak on how zero-carbon design can be incorporated into the design process.

Find out more about this three-day conference here.

Alison Brooks Architects, FCBStudios and Gort Scott lead a tour of the multi-architect regeneration project in South Kilburn.

Join us for a walk around Unity Place, a new mansion block social housing scheme for Kilburn, as part of Brent Council’s multi-phase regeneration masterplan. The tour will be led by architects Alison Brooks and Nelson Carvalho (Alison Brooks Architects), George Wilson (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios) and Andrew Tam (Gort Scott).

Unity Place replaces an inward-facing 1960s ‘Bison Block’ tower, restoring the character and scale of this north London neighbourhood and re-establishing the area’s historic 19th century street plan. The scheme is oriented around a reinstated route to the Grade I Listed St Augustine’s Kilburn Church, a landmark recognised for its architectural heritage and social role in the community.

The development, which ranges in scale between 4-8 storeys, demonstrates how an appropriate level of density can be achieved without building above eight storeys. Street-level apartments are set back from the street with a terrace, and apartments on the upper levels benefit from broad balconies overlooking their internal courtyard.

GLA funding has enabled Brent Council to retain 100% of the units as social housing, aimed specifically at existing residents of the borough.

Against the backdrop of the climate emergency, achieving sustainability in heritage and listed buildings is imperative.

This event will explore the decisions that are faced when conserving and adapting historic buildings: how do we care for our cultural heritage in the face of a climate and ecological crisis? How can we upgrade the performance of the building fabric while maintaining cultural significance? What part does the Historic Environment have to play in helping us learn how to live responsibly? How does the embodied carbon of our historic buildings inform our understanding and approach to their reuse? What more can we do to make the re-use of historic building a solution to the crisis?

Join our panel of experts from across practice, research and industry as their share their knowledge and ideas. An evening of discussion and debate. Doors open at 5.30pm for refreshments and to give you chance to look at the accompanying Carbon Counts exhibition and chat to our panellists .

Chaired by Barnabas Calder with: 
Geoff Rich, FCBStudios
Dr. Haniyeh M Karbasi, LSA
Christian Baars, National Museums Liverpool
Dr. Joe Jack Williams, FCBStudios
Prof. Soumyen Bandyopadhyay, LSA

Rob McCartney, RIBA Tees Valley Chair will be hosting Simon Doody, Partner at FCBS for an online lunchtime talk on RIBA North East Award winner 2021 The Beam.

The Beam is the first office building to be developed at Riverside Sunderland: a groundbreaking mixed-use development on the site of Sunderland's historic city centre brewery.

The Bath Property Symposium 2022 focuses on sustainability initiatives, policies and change, that affect organisations throughout the UK.

FCBStudios Associate and Passivhaus Designer Nick Hodges will join a panel session entitled 'Visionaries, the new built environment' alongside Nick Hairham, Chief executive - BDP, Lucinda Mitchell, Project Director - Socius, and Mike Borne, Head of operations - Interaction.

The Symposium will have an emphasis on insights and networking, acting as a catalyst for business development across a range of Professional Services. Experts from the industry will give insight into bespoke research in residential and commercial development; keynotes will discuss the built environment and longer-term responsibility; panel sessions will feature high-quality thinking and there will be networking opportunities.

Join us online & in-person to celebrate the publication of two NEW LETI Circular Economy resources.

Since the Climate Emergency Design Guide was published in 2020 with guidelines advocating for reuse metrics and more circularity of our built environment, the concept of circular economy (CE) has increased significantly in understanding and popularity.

This event celebrates the publication of two new resources produced by the LETI Circular Economy workstream:

• The LETI Circular Economy One Pager, summarises the key issues, and provides basic definitions, primary actions and metrics related to circularity in the built environment.
• Opinion Piece ‘Circular economy and carbon in construction’, shines a light on the interrelation between circular economy and reducing embodied carbon emissions.

Discover more about our new resources and join in the discussion with our panel of cross-sector experts on circularity and carbon in the built environment.

Speakers will be Tim den Dekker, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios & LETI and Laura Batty – Heyne Tillett Steel & LETI

The Expert panel will be made up of Elaine Toogood, The Concrete Centre & LETI, Dave Cheshire, AECOM, Duncan Baker Brown, BakerBrown, Andrea Charlson, ReLondon and Penny Gowler, Elliott Wood.