TDChallenge23

Winners of TDChallenge23.
‘Hemphasise’ declared winners of the TDUK Student Challenge 2023
by Liam Macandrew|20 July 23|Education
A mixed-discipline student team featuring built environment students from across the UK took out top spot in the Timber Development UK University Design Challenge 2023 (#TDChallenge23), as they competed to reimagine and retrofit a real-life building using timber. TDChallenge is the pre-eminent competition for students to learn how to design...
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Climate Responsive Retrofit: University Design Challenge 2023 is coming to an end!
by Bryony Bodimeade|28 June 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...
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Climate response retrofit
Getting into the details of retrofit in a timber frame
by Bryony Bodimeade|16 December 22|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...
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Retrofit
Knowledge sharing panel on AECB Retrofit
by Bryony Bodimeade|14 December 22|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...
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Climate response
The ins and outs of the EnerPHit retrofit standard
by Bryony Bodimeade|06 December 22|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...
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Climate Responsive Retrofit: University Design Challenge 2023
by Liam Macandrew|13 October 22|Education
We need our future professionals to understand the complexity and embrace the constraints and challenges. Which is why #TDChallenge23 is focused on retrofit.
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