Winners of the 2020 RIBA President s Medal for Research and Research Awards
By Alexander Walter|
Friday, Jan 22, 2021
Surface details of probiotic tile showing the textural, porous surface of the probiotic zone. All images courtesy of RIBA.
RIBA this week revealed the winners of the President s Awards for Research, a program established in 2006 to reward and encourage research in the fields of architecture and the built environment.
From the award winners in the four categories Climate Change, Cities and Community, Design and Technical, and History and Theory, the jury selected the work Probiotic Design by Richard Beckett from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London as the recipient of the 2020 RIBA President s Medal for Research.
By Elizabeth Hopkirk2021-01-20T13:24:00+00:00
Architects criticise government’s Future Homes Standard response for ‘falling significantly short’
Architects have criticised the government’s response to the Future Homes Standard consultation, saying it does not mention embodied carbon once in 114 pages.
But they welcomed some of the revisions the government has proposed, saying it had listened to concerns they had raised previously.
The government’s response, published yesterday, centres on energy efficiency improvements that will be implemented on new homes through Parts L (energy) and F (ventilation) of the Building Regulations.
Architect Seb Laan Lomas, coordinator of the Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN)’s embodied carbon group, said the government had recognised the clamour for embodied carbon to be part of the Future Homes Standard (FHS) but that its response was inadequate.