With its first office-to-housing project done, Chicago advances ‘next chapter’ for its downtown

The adaptive reuse project in the city's Loop has 117 mixed-income residential units. More conversions are in the pipeline.

Shedkm wins RetroFirst-inspired housing award for car park-to-homes conversion

The Architects’ Journal Shedkm wins RetroFirst-inspired housing award for car park-to-homes conversion The first ever Creative Re-use award, sponsored by Historic England and part of the Housing Design Awards, has gone to the shedkm project Karparc in Newcastle-under-Lyme The post Shedkm wins RetroFirst-inspired housing award for car park-to-homes conversion appeared first on The Architects’ Journal will hurst

IFDO’s Eagle House in Hastings wins AJ Retrofit of the year award

The Architects’ Journal IFDO’s Eagle House in Hastings wins AJ Retrofit of the year award Eagle House, a community project by IFDO, has taken home the top prize at the 2026 AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards in recognition of its small-scale, high-impact transformation The post IFDO’s Eagle House in Hastings wins AJ Retrofit of the year award appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Fran Williams

OnSide named AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards client of the year

The Architects’ Journal OnSide named AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards client of the year Client of the year has been awarded to national charity OnSide Youth Zones for its bold departure from its typical delivery model and a longstanding commitment to design quality The post OnSide named AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards client of the year appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Fran Williams

Winners revealed for the 2026 AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards

The Architects’ Journal Winners revealed for the 2026 AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards The AJ can reveal the 18 category winners of this year’s AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards, announced tonight (Thursday 24 September) at a ceremony at The Troxy in east London The post Winners revealed for the 2026 AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards appeared first on The Architects’ Journal Fran Williams

FT - Recycling the world’s hard drive waste, 13022023

Shredding hard drives may be a sure-fire way to prevent data leaks from discarded devices, but as the FT’s TMT correspondent Anna Gross reports, it can create significant amounts of waste and squander rare metals. Information can be deleted with wiping software, but why are companies reluctant to use it?

The B1M - Before and After: Buildings Reinvented, 27022019

In an effort to retain heritage, reduce waste and overcome the challenge of finding sites in urban areas, architects, engineers and developers are breathing new life into existing structures and the communities around them

Supply Chain Sustainability School - Retrofit - The Scale of the Opportunity, 24112022

A 2 hour video conference about Retrofit in the Heritage, Commercial and Domestic Housing sectors

RICS - Lowering embodied carbon – A whole life approach to decarbonisation, 08122021

Embodied carbon has traditionally been overlooked as a cause of emissions in the built environment. While an inefficient building can be renovated and improved to reduce future in-use emissions, the clock cannot be turned back on embodied carbon. What is required is a whole life approach to decarbonisation. How can this be best achieved and what are the challenges that need to be overcome?

RICS - Retrofitting for the future: Net zero for existing building stock, 29062022

In this RICS webinar, the panel discuss the challenges in retrofitting existing stock, how can these be overcome and the best way to reduce emissions and energy use

Can net zero carbon targets be helped by a change in tax such as VAT to zero for refurbishment and reuse and 20% on new build?

Has anyone had any experience trying to recover ppe for reuse?

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