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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · 16d

Calls for Papers: MMC and the Future of Housing
This special issue aims to investigate the validity of many claims made about modern methods of construction (MMC), and how, and the degree to which, MMC are (re)configuring contemporary housing systems.

MMC and the Future of Housing

Guest Editors: Rachel Macrorie & Andrew Karvonen

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · 16d

New Editorial Positions at B&C!
📢 📢Buildings & Cities journal is looking for 2 Associate Editors (i.e., a Feedback Editor and a Briefing Notes Editor) to join our outstanding editorial team to support the journal’s mission.

New Editorial Positions at B&C

We are seeking 2 people to journal our editorial team

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · 17d

Latest Special Issue: Trusting Building Performance Simulation

As codes and regulations become stricter, is simulation the right tool for compliance as well as sketching performance to assist design?

Trusting Building Performance Simulation

As codes and regulations become stricter, is simulation the right tool for compliance as well as sketching performance to assist design?

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Jul 26

New commentary! Lessons from Disaster Recovery: Build Better Before

Rethinking the building code means including performance objectives to limit damage and increase redundancy.

Lessons from Disaster Recovery: Build Better Before

Rethinking the building code means including performance objectives to limit damage and increase redundancy

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Jul 26

New commentary! Lessons from Disaster Recovery: Build Better Before

Rethinking the building code means including performance objectives to limit damage and increase redundancy.

Lessons from Disaster Recovery: Build Better Before

Rethinking the building code means including performance objectives to limit damage and increase redundancy

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Jul 12

2025 PhD Video Challenge: Calling all PhD candidates!

You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.

2025 PhD Video Challenge: Calling all PhD candidates!

You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Jul 12

2025 PhD Video Challenge: Calling all PhD candidates!

You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.

2025 PhD Video Challenge: Calling all PhD candidates!

You are invited to participate in the 2025 Video Challenge by creating a 2-minute video that tells the world about the significance of your research.

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Richard Lorch @richardlorch.bsky.social · Jul 1

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...

B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Jun 26

New commentary! Will NDC 3.0 Drive a Buildings Breakthrough?

Why policymakers should create mitigation roadmaps for construction and real estate.
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Will NDC 3.0 Drive a Buildings Breakthrough?

Why policymakers should create mitigation roadmaps for construction and real estate

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · Jun 4

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The New European Bauhaus inspires co-creation & connection across Europe

value of sustainable urban design in mitigating climate change

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#ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏
via @francesca_bria @ClimateKIC @NEBauhaus_FG

B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Jun 2

Understanding Urban Climate Interactions

RESEARCH PATHWAY: personal reflections on a career in research

Geographer and climatologist Gerald Mills (University College Dublin) reflects on a long research career investigating urban climate.

Understanding Urban Climate Interactions

RESEARCH PATHWAY: personal reflections on a career in research

B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · May 23

New commentary! Self-Organised Knowledge Space as a Living Lab

How can a self-organised initiative in an informal settlement foster community engagement and confront social issues?

Self-Organised Knowledge Space as a Living Lab

How can a self-organised initiative in an informal settlement foster community engagement and confront social issues?

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Apr 15

New CFP!
Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making.
Special issue of Buildings & Cities journal.
Abstracts due: 9 June 2025
Full details: www.buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-pa...

B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · May 15

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Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges

Why the built environment research community is vital for policy and strategy implementation

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · May 15

New commentary! Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges

Thomas Lützkendorf explains how the research community has helped to change the climate change policy landscape for the construction and real estate sectors.

Climate Mitigation & Carbon Budgets: Research Challenges

Why the built environment research community is vital for policy and strategy implementation

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Kerstin Sailer @kerstinsailer.bsky.social · Apr 30

Second featured paper in my talk today was the 2023 paper 'The challenges of hybrid work: an architectural sociology perspective' published in @bceditors.bsky.social

Available #openAccess from:
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The challenges of hybrid work: an architectural sociology perspective | Buildings & Cities

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Apr 30

News! Buildings & Cities is pleased to announce that in 2024 our peer reviewed articles were viewed and downloaded 523,612 times from the journal's website.

We hope you will all continue to support us and enjoy reading our 2025 volume.

B&C's Readership Metric

Research papers in B&C are being widely read

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Apr 30

News! Architectural Science Association: Call for Abstracts

Deadline for abstracts: 23 May 2025
Full details:

Architectural Science Association: Call for Abstracts

Deadline for abstracts: 23 May 2025

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Apr 15

New CFP!
Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making.
Special issue of Buildings & Cities journal.
Abstracts due: 9 June 2025
Full details: www.buildingsandcities.org/calls-for-pa...

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Apr 9

New commentary! Decolonising Cities: The Role of Street Naming

Strategies for decolonising street names: top-down by city authorities or bottom-up by local communities?

Decolonising Cities: The Role of Street Naming

Strategies for decolonising street names: top-down by city authorities or bottom-up by local communities?

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Apr 11

New! Urban heat islands modify building heating and cooling loads and public exposure to non-optimal temperatures. This study uses personal weather stations to investigate urban temperatures in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Tampere, Finland.
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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Apr 9

New commentary! Decolonising Cities: The Role of Street Naming

Strategies for decolonising street names: top-down by city authorities or bottom-up by local communities?

Decolonising Cities: The Role of Street Naming

Strategies for decolonising street names: top-down by city authorities or bottom-up by local communities?

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Mar 20

New Commentary! Integrating Nature into Cities

Nature-based design, combined with the transformation of underlying worldviews, can enhance urban resilience.

Integrating Nature into Cities

Nature-based design, combined with the transformation of underlying worldviews, can enhance urban resilience.

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B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Mar 25

New! This research examines the acceptability of sufficiency consumption policies among Finnish households & how Finnish households experience sufficiency as a guiding principle. Factors are identified for increasing the acceptability of sufficiency policy measures (SPMs).
doi.org/10.5334/bc.573

B&C Editors @bceditors.bsky.social · Mar 25

New commentary! Reframing Sustainable Construction

Why a new approach to sustainable development is needed.

Alice Moncaster reflects on the lack of progress in sustainable development over several decades.

Reframing Sustainable Construction

Why a new approach to sustainable development is needed.

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