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AJ Retrofit Live 2025
Why aren’t we reusing more?

Here’s some of the key messages from the talk that Anna Beckett and Gareth Atkinson gave on behalf of The Engineers Reuse Collective at the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Live conference last week.
Resources:
Reuse Glossary

This glossary has been developed to bring together a set of carefully collated definitions for standard terms, drawn from trusted industry sources and best practice. It aims to provide clarity, increase understanding, and promote alignment in the way we talk about reuse and related circular economy concepts.
Case Study:
Vestry House Museum

Extensive refurbishment of the existing listed Vestry House Museum and its more modern rear extension. The extension features an entirely new roof, which reuses the joists from the existing roof, laid flat as sarking boards spanning between new roof trusses.
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IStructE Young Engineers Conference 2025

Anna Beckett and Andy Yates presented at The Institution of Structural Engineers’ Young Engineers Conference on the topic of ‘Thinking Differently’.
Opinion:
Do we need to rethink ‘best practice’ in a circular world?

Tom Webster asks do we need to rethink what we call ‘best practice’ in a world striving for circularity?
Case Study:
Call for submissions!

We are developing a library of reuse case studies and would welcome submissions from our members.
Opinion:
A tale of reuse in action in Manchester and West Yorkshire

Every salvaged brick, every repurposed beam, is a step towards a more sustainable built environment, writes Michael Pledger of DeSimone Consulting Engineering.
Case Study:
Sheep Field Barn

Retrofit of an existing barn building into a new learning hub at the Henry Moore Foundation’s headquarters in Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
Case Study:
Alexandra Palace House

The project involves the conversion of two flats into a single, family home in North London. The ambition was to create a sustainable family home with real architectural merit. The existing end of terrace house is built from traditional load-bearing masonry with timber-joisted floors.
Case Study:
Holbein Gardens

Holbein Gardens is a retained and extended 1980s concrete-framed commercial building, refurbished with Barr Gazetas architect for Grosvenor, to create a modern sustainable workplace with increased floor area. The building includes a 2-storey upward extension, with a roof terrace over an existing 4 storey building plus basement.