You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email, or by emailing us at privacy@dezeen.com. Globally, Bloomberg currently diverts 75% of its total waste away from landfills and is targeting 90% diversion by 2020. The system, which incorporates 500,000 LED lights, uses 40 percent less energy than a typical fluorescent office lighting system. Simply making the status quo more efficient, rather than shifting to a fundamentally different paradigm, is a doomed strategy. © Copyright 2020 Business Sector Media LLC. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of every newsletter. It contains three new public plazas, two featuring specially commissioned works of art, a retail arcade that will reinstate an ancient Roman travel route and an anticipated cultural hub that will restore the ancient Roman Temple of Mithras to the site of its recovery. https://www.breeam.com/building-back-better/, Every business has a role to play in helping to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals We have created a mapping tool for #SDGs to show how our BREEAM suite of schemes can help facilitate this. but if you're still specifying concrete frames and demolishing, rather than upgrading old stock, you're firmly committing us to three degrees and more. Some of the innovations built into the Bloomberg building include: Integrated Ceiling Panels: custom-made ceiling panels combine heating, cooling, lighting and acoustic functions. And De Grey's research did not even take into account the embodied energy of the 10,000 tonnes of sandstone cladding, the vast bronze facade fins or the deep foundations required to take their weight. Yet the sharp truth is that simply making the status quo more efficient, rather than shifting to a fundamentally different paradigm, as De Grey has shown, is a doomed strategy. Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. "The project evolved from thereon into a building that is one of the most sustainable in the world.". You may have cut out meat and cut down flying (and if you haven't, what the hell are you thinking?) This year the British government approved a new runway for Heathrow and imprisoned activists Richard Loizou, Richard Roberts and Simon Roscoe-Blevins for protesting against fracking. De Grey showed research comparing international building performance standards against their knock-on share of mean temperature rises. Bloomberg scooped the highest BREEAM certification possible of Outstanding – surely if there is an architecture that can limit warming to the 1.5 degrees needed, this is it? You can't make its corporate headquarters ecological much as you can't wage an ethical nuclear war or build a sustainable airport. Bloomberg is the oil in wheels of the global stock market. Good timing too, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Incheon Report is as grave as it is categorical: a mean global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees is the tipping point for global catastrophe, with only 12 years on the clock to act. Even the "world's most sustainable office building" is fuelling global warming more than … These use net zero mains water for flushing. Architecture, it seems, is acting. Reducing dependency on mechanical ventilation and cooling equipment significantly reduces energy consumption. Not before time, stopping global warming is finally becoming cool. With less than two weeks left to vote for your favourite ... With less than two weeks left to vote in the Dezeen Awards ... With two weeks left to vote, see the interiors projects ... With two weeks left to vote, see who's ahead in the Dezeen ... Vote for your favourite projects and studios in the Dezeen ... Dezeen Awards 2020 studio shortlist revealed, Dezeen Awards 2020 design shortlist revealed, Dezeen Awards 2020 interiors shortlist announced, Visit our comments page | Read our comments policy, Foster + Partner's Bloomberg headquarters is the "world’s most sustainable office", Leadenhall building by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, 20 Fenchurch Street – known as the Walkie Talkie, Carbuncle Cup for the UK's worst new building. Sustainability has been seen for years by architects as a worthy but tedious constraint.

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