CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: BUILDING PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: ACHIEVING BETTER OUTCOMES Special issue of Buildings & Cities Abstracts due: 23 March 2026 Guest editors: Bill Bordass, Paul Ruyssevelt, Fionn Stevenson Full details: www.buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-pa... #POE #BPE #buildingperformance

"Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate" Pleased to see the Guardian has written about novel research in Buildings & Cities: Church pipe organs: historical tuning records as indoor environmental evidence doi.org/10.5334/bc.671 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Watch the 2-minute videos that won the 2025 PhD Video Challenge. These explain the significance of built environment research to the public Congratulations to: Menatalla KASEM, Otis SLOAN WOOD, Ali Rıza BAYRAK, Zhuo PANG, Swati SINHA. www.buildingsandcities.org/video-challe... #doctoral #PhD #ECR

New research demonstrates how co-creation with hospital staff, patients & other key stakeholders can generate novel, context-specific interventions to reduce mosquito- borne disease risks in health care environments journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.... #VectorBorneDiseases #HospitalDesign

READ THIS! Why #COP30 must create explicit sector-specific roadmaps and targets. Goals & roadmaps are needed for the built environment in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions #NDC @bceditors.bsky.social #decarbonisation #buildingsector www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/com...

CFP - MMC and the Future of Housing DEADLINE for abstracts: Friday 14 November Special issue of Buildings & Cities, guest editors: Rachel Macrorie & Andrew Karvonen Full details: www.buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-pa...

Next Built Conference: Call for Abstracts  Deadline for abstracts: 05 December 2025 Main conference focus is on #HOUSING www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/new...

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. journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10....

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 www.buildingsandcities.org/video-challe...

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 Full details: buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-pa... #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 journal-buildingscities.org/articles/518...

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

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." www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/com...

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 www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/com...

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 doi.org/10.5334/bc.478

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 bit.ly/4ku0ZoT @bceditors.bsky.social

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 www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/com...

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 www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/new... journal-buildingscities.org

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 www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/com...

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. www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/com...

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: www.buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-pa...

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. buff.ly/4fKv6Xh #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: www.buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-pa...