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Mind the gap (opens the original)
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The UK buys far more structural steel than it is allowed to import duty-free, and cannot make the difference itself. The shortfall doesn’t vanish, it gets paid for, dodged, or not built.I recently wrote Quota Lottery on the Circular Steel newsletter, about the 30th September cliff edge in the UK’s new steel trade measure. That was about principles and direction, this is more about the numbers.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href
Held at a red signal (opens the original)
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A consented tower has sat unbuilt at Waterloo for five years and will be another five before any works complete. HB Reavis has now decided to keep the 1960s building instead. Interestingly, what changed in the last five years is the market, not the carbon case.In the last week of August, HB Reavis launched a consultation on a substantially new plan for Elizabeth House, the tired 1960s block sitting alongside Waterloo station. The developer will retain much of the existing structure and turn the
Designing for Failure (opens the original)
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1.5C is going. Your overheating model already assumed that. Your carbon targets still have not caught up.Two things landed within a day of each other last week and industry will likely file both under grim climate news and move on. But they do raise some interesting questions about how we design buildings in this country.On 2 September, UNEP published Limiting Overshoot. It is the first time the UN has said so clearly that global temperature rise will cross 1.5C (likely wi
Somewhere to put stuff (opens the original)
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London opened the UK’s first circular construction hub in March. New York opened its first last week. And both needed the public sector to hand over a shed.New York City’s Economic Development Corporation have launched a year-long pilot of what it calls a Circular Construction Hub, in a warehouse at MADE Bush Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The intention is for recovery, sorting, storage and redistribution of construction ma
Prove it (opens the original)
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After four years of discussing definitions, the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard now has a referee, a price list and no way to buy your way out.Something quietly significant happened a month ago, while most of the industry was on holiday. On 28 July, verification to the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard opened for submissions.Thanks for reading Steve’s Newsletter! S
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