News Round Up #2

A fortnightly look at headlines from the world of adaptive reuse. SUBSCRIBE for a monthly newsletter to you inbox.

1. UK News

• How can we measure the economic and social benefits of heritage?

  Heritage projects generate a wide range of benefits, but capturing their full value for people and places can be a challenge. The Heritage Fund UK commissioned Simetrica-Jacobs to develop and test and approach to valuing the benefits for the economy and for society . You can read the report HERE

• The Social Value Need Index

  The Social Value Need Index is a free and open-source tool developed by WPI Strategy on behalf of the Social Value Commission. The tool allows users to select one or more local authorities, combined authorities or regions to understand the social value need of an area. A useful tool to help support the case for adaptive re-use investment in areas of high need.

• Funding available

  • Historic England have up to 21 grants of up to £15,000 available that could be used to support ReWeave projects. Deadline for applications closes on November 27th.

  • A range of funding opportunities offered through the fab Architectural Heritage Fund.

• A new era for community ownership?

  An insightful report by Power to Change and Locality about the future challenges and opportunities around community ownership.

• Heritage led regeneration

  The Heritage Network are running a great event in Perth and Kinross with a focus on a scheme and grant programme to re-use vacant buildings.

2. Global News

• The High Line: The Public Above and Below the Viaduct

  An interesting article by Federica Leone examining the impact of the famous New York Highline and the challenges of gentrification versus community benefit. If interested in the Highline you can still find a second hand copy of the founders book if you look online.

• Guess how many buildings there are on Earth?

  2,750,000,000. As estimated by researchers at the Technical University of Munich have mapped them in the GlobalBuildingAtlas: the first open dataset to provide global coverage of individual building footprints, heights and simple 3D models.

🔗 Tutorial → https://lnkd.in/e3sDKk8V
🔗 Research paper → https://lnkd.in/ehsVVUVn
🔗 Explore the project → https://lnkd.in/e68apFGY
🔗 Code and data → https://lnkd.in/exi9Wki2

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