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Climate Responsive Retrofit: University Design Challenge 2023 is coming to an end!

by Bryony Bodimeade|28 June 2303 July 23|Design, Education

Addressing the urgent need to reuse and upgrade existing buildings, this year’s university design challenge has focused on the essential but challenging realm of retrofit. Seven team entries to the Climate Responsive Retrofit Design Challenge were longlisted and, of these, four teams have now been shortlisted for the live judging...

Getting into the details of retrofit in a timber frame

by Bryony Bodimeade|16 December 2206 February 23|Design, Education

In the fourth and final webinar of the #TDChallenge23 series, three retrofit experts got into the nitty gritty of detailing for timber frame buildings. Gervase Mangwana, Florence Collier and Beth Williams spoke about airtightness and moisture, M&E ventilation, and structural considerations. After presenting at last week’s talk on the AECB...

Knowledge sharing panel on AECB Retrofit

by Bryony Bodimeade|14 December 2216 March 23|Design, Education

In partnership with AECB, BE-ST, Edinburgh Napier University, NMITE and Passivhaus Trust, TDUK has programmed a series of webinars on climate responsive retrofit to support the 2023 university challenge. The challenge asks interdisciplinary teams to form to design, engineer and cost a retrofit scheme for an existing timber frame building...

The ins and outs of the EnerPHit retrofit standard

by Bryony Bodimeade|06 December 2216 March 23|Design, Education

In the second #TDChallenge23 webinar, three professionals working at the forefront of retrofit in the UK provided a closer look at the EnerPHit standard. EnerPhit is a passive house standard specifically intended for existing building projects. To learn more about what it is and how to do it, we heard...

In it together – a panel on climate responsive retrofit

by Bryony Bodimeade|22 November 2203 July 23|Design, Education

With presentations by three leading retrofit advocates, a recent webinar hosted by TDUK University Design Challenge 2023 offered insights into climate-responsive retrofit from the perspectives of an architect, engineer and landscape architect. Despite its critical importance, retrofit is not, yet, common practice – and is likely to be one of...

Climate Responsive Retrofit: University Design Challenge 2023

by Liam Macandrew|13 October 2226 October 23|Education

We need our future professionals to understand the complexity and embrace the constraints and challenges. Which is why #TDChallenge23 is focused on retrofit.

Winners of the hereford southside: University design challenge announced

by TDUK|27 July 2223 September 22|Design

The winners of the Timber Development UK Hereford Southside University Design Challenge (#TDchallenge22) have been announced following an incredibly competitive nine-month process.

An exciting month ahead for TDUK

by TDUK|06 July 2207 September 22|Design, Education

As we head into July, I thought it would be a good time to provide a quick update on the exciting activities happening at TDUK.

Catch up on #TDChallenge22 Lectures

by TDUK|28 March 2219 April 23|Design, Education

Over the past three months as part of the Timber Development UK University Design Challenge (#TDChallenge22) we have hosted a series of webinars with experts from across the built environment. There has been an incredible response from the community who are keen to share knowledge. We are sharing some highlights...

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