Richard Lorch

Next Built Conference: Call for Abstracts Deadline for abstracts: 05 December 2025

Next Built Conference: Call for Abstracts 
Deadline for abstracts: 05 December 2025
Main conference focus is on #HOUSING
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The regulation of the built environment should depend upon a combination of governmental regulation, robust professional practice & market forces. Simon Foxell explains why neoliberalism has failured. A more positive approach is outlined.
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2025 PhD Video Challenge - People's Vote Cast Your Vote! Watch the videos of the 2025 PhD Video Challenge and help decide which one will receive the People's Award prize. The winner of the People's Vote will receive a prize of €400.

2025 PhD Video Challenge - People’s Vote is open
It’s time to cast your vote!

Watch the videos and help decide who will win the People’s Award & a €400 prize

This year’s theme is “Why It Matters” - explain the significance of their research in 2 minutes

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: MMC & the Future of Housing
Special issue of Buildings & Cities
Abstracts due 14.11.25

This SI examines the claims, processes, dynamics, outcomes associated w MMC for housing
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#MMC #housing #offsite @rachelmacrorie.bsky.social

New research: A framework of criteria for defining and assessing effective #buildingsector commitments in Nationall Determined Contributions #NDCs. Very useful for the UNFCCC #COP30 preparations & negotiations.
@bceditors.bsky.social #decarbonisation

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2025 VIDEO CHALLENGE: Calling all built environment PhD students www.buildingsandcities.org/video-challe...

You are invited to create a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research. The theme is “WHY IT MATTERS”. DEADLINE: 14.10.2025 noon GMT.

#PhD #doctoral

Building-Related Research: New Context, New Challenges Overview and reflections on key built environment research challenges raised in B&C's anniversary essays

New! Commentary by Ray Cole on building-related research:
"A prerequisite [for researchers] therefore would be an understanding of the ways that the construction industry functions and the sway of government policy."
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Calling all built environment PhD students:
Enter the "2025 Video Challenge": create a 2-minute video to tell the world about the significance of your PhD research. Kudos, recognition, cash prizes. @bceditors.bsky.social @ARL_Hannover www.buildingsandcities.org/video-challe...

Can Nationally Determined Contributions #NDCs drive a buildings breakthrough at COP30? Thomas Lützkendorf, Greg Foliente & Alexander Passer argue why specific GHG targets for building, construction & real estate are needed in the next round of NDCs
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Embodied climate impacts in urban development: a neighbourhood case study

Most emissions in urban developments occur upfront & are from to new construction.

Implications: Planning models need to prioritise existing building inventories & limit permissible building rights
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Self-Organised Knowledge Space as a Living Lab How can a self-organised initiative in an informal settlement foster community engagement and confront social issues?

NEW!! "Self-Organised Knowledge Space as a Living Lab" 
Self-organised knowledge spaces can function as #LivingLabs by fostering situated learning, collective agency & community resilience. Insights from Dhaka, Bangladesh. #participation
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Is Gentrification a Crime? The destruction of cultural heritage is a war crime. Should peacetime destruction or displacement be a crime too?

Is gentrification a crime?

Ian Cooper argues that greater protection needs to be provided to built environment and to the people who live there to avoid their displacement.

Important commentary in @bceditors.bsky.social #BuildingsCities

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Authors' papers in Buildings & Cities journal are widely read.

In 2024 our peer-reviewed articles were viewed & downloaded 523,612 times from the journal's website. #journalmetrics

All content is open-access #OA

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Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges Why the built environment research community is vital for policy and strategy implementation

Why the built environment research community is vital for #climatepolicy and strategy implementation:
#Research provides clear evidence for carbon budgets and targets for the buildings and the built environment. @bceditors.bsky.social
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Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges Why the built environment research community is vital for policy and strategy implementation

NEW!
Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges
Commentary by Thomas Lützkendorf
Why the built environment research community is vital for climate policy and strategy implementation.
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New CFP!
"Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making"

Special issue of Buildings & Cities
How should we respond to the increasing risks resulting from climate change? Who owns those risks and responsibilities?

Abstracts due 09 June 2025

Full details:
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Special issue! Health Inequalities & Indoor Environments

There is compelling evidence that aspects of indoor environments can adversely affect health, but the role of indoor environments in health inequalities is less understood.
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#publichealth #equity #healthpolicy #IEQ #buildings

Call for papers! THE COMPLEXITY OF DISASTER RECONSTRUCTION
Abstracts due: 24 MARCH 2025

How can the challenges of physical reconstruction across diverse disciplines, stakeholders & governance be better organised?

Buildings & Cities special issue:
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