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It’s sad to see that #RIBA have decided to give a project multiple awards despite the fact it includes not one, but two polluting wood burning stoves.
Confusingly they boast:
‘A single air-source heat pump also provides all the house requires for heating and washing, with bills a fraction of typical running costs.’
It’s all the more odd considering #RIBA has been vocal in recent years in its commitment to addressing #ClimateChange and promoting low-carbon, sustainable design.
The RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge explicitly acknowledges the urgent need for reducing carbon emissions and improving air quality through sustainable building practices.
Furthermore, RIBA’s Climate Change Action Plan calls on #architects to prioritise clean energy sources that do not contribute to harmful #AirPollution.
#WoodBurning is the single largest source of PM2.5 particulate pollution in the UK, responsible for over 37% of emissions—exceeding even road transport’s contribution (Defra, Emissions of Air Pollutants in the UK 1970–2021, 2023)
@JugglingWithEggs two wood burners, in the middle of what appears to be suburban London? I guess the hard lessons learned in the previous century have been forgotten (or these houses are still for the privileged middle class anyway)
It’s very sad that in the same week we hear that London’s air quality is improving massively because of ULEZ, yet those gains are being eroded by the middle classes putting in wood burning stoves right, left and centre.
Councils do nothing to enforce recent laws on wood burning, but I would have hoped architects were more aware. Seems not.
@JugglingWithEggs the "homely" smell of wood burning is all sorts of VOCs - I work next door to a repair garage and do various kind of maintenance work so recognise the smells of industrial solvents - and as soon as times are hard many of these these folk are going to be burning anything that will burn, heedless to the environment consequences..
I smell that happening too in Norwich.
