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Alex Ely contributed to the BBC's 'Inside Out' programme on Monday 15th February, discussing the need for establishing space standards for new, privately built housing in London. Watch the programme here.

mæ partner Michael Howe flies out tomorrow to deliver a lecture at Virginia Tech University. We hope he will not become stranded in the latest bout of inclement weather to hit the US.

mæ was invited to participate in the EUNIC Architecture Studio 2009. Partner Alex Ely joined international architects and Architecture students from across South Africa for the week long workshop examining urban housing opportunities in the Hillbrow area of Johannesburg. Further details can be found here. 

mæ is working with East Thames Group, Arup, Wates and the Environmental Building Partnership on the 'Retrofit for the Future' initiative. Our team is one of 180 to win contracts to devise innovative plans for ‘low carbon refurbishments’ of existing low-rise social housing. The £3.5 million competition, run by the Technology Strategy Board, will enable the successful companies to devise solutions geared towards making deep cuts in the carbon emissions produced by housing. The most promising designs will be built in Phase 2, culminating in the retrofit and monitoring of up to 100 ‘demonstrator’ houses from early 2010.