Orms associate and sustainability co-ordinator Rachel Hoolahan tells Fran Williams about the practice’s recent research paper, Materials Passports: Accelerating Material Reuse in Construction, produced in collaboration with Lancaster University
Launching a new six-part series on materials, Henning Larsen’s head of materials argues that a baseline of health and environmental impacts should inform specification
AJ100 Sustainability Champion 2021 Rachel Hoolahan asks us to imagine a world where it’s no longer possible to source new materials
Geoff Wilkinson looks at issues surrounding the use of natural construction materials
Material passports will help to support and grow demand by showing and demonstrating a building’s material worth, writes Emily Booth
Repurposing a building starts with knowing all of its constituent parts. Isabella Kaminski looks at how material passports could change the industry
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