{"id":125847,"date":"2022-04-18T00:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-the-future-of-buildings-make-do-and-mend-editorial\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:30:03","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-the-future-of-buildings-make-do-and-mend-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-the-future-of-buildings-make-do-and-mend-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on the future of buildings: make do and mend | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nDemolition and construction are hugely carbon-intensive. Developers must change their waysA controversial decision by London\u2019s mayor, Sadiq Khan, to allow the demolition of a flagship Marks &amp; Spencer store on London\u2019s Oxford Street is one of the highest-profile instances so far of what is certain to become a wider debate about embodied carbon. This crucial term, which refers to the carbon emissions of a building over its lifetime, urgently needs to be brought into wider circulation. In the UK, buildings are estimated to be responsible for 23% of all emissions.With its millions of Victorian and Edwardian terraces, the UK has some of the oldest housing stock in the world. So the idea of a \u201cthrowaway building culture\u201d, as Will Hurst of the Architects\u2019 Journal describes our contemporary attitude to construction, takes some getting used to. But developers, particularly of large-scale projects, routinely look for a blank slate on which to place a new edifice. Demolition is part of what the construction industry does. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/apr\/17\/the-guardian-view-on-the-future-of-buildings-make-do-and-mend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian view on the future of buildings: make do and mend | Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Demolition and construction are hugely carbon-intensive. Developers must change their waysA controversial decision by London\u2019s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-wJN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":149932,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-battle-for-glasgows-wyndford-estate-photo-essay\/","url_meta":{"origin":125847,"position":0},"title":"The battle for Glasgow\u2019s Wyndford estate \u2013 photo essay","date":"March 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A carbon crime or bright new future? 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