British Journalism Award winner working at The Architects' Journal. Pushing reuse in construction with our #RetroFirst campaign. Email will.hurst@emap.com
Nov 25, 2021 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD: M&S boasts it is going net zero because 'there is no Plan B when it comes to our planet'. But I've crunched the CO2 numbers on your Oxford St demolition job @marksandspencer & I have to tell you it ain't pretty
@marksandspencer The embodied carbon cost of replacing the building on the left with the building on the right is 39,534 tonnes of CO2 (thanks @w9maidavale & @WillIng9). That's equivalent to driving a typical car 99,000,000 miles - further than the distance to the sun
Dec 2, 2019 • 13 tweets • 17 min read
.@BorisJohnson didn't try to have me beaten up but
thanks to my investigation into his Garden Bridge scheme he did try to damage my reputation, describing my stories for @ArchitectsJrnal as a 'stream of abuse' & ascribing false motives to my reporting. This all happened in 2018
@BorisJohnson@ArchitectsJrnal Johnson launched his attack at City Hall after the scale of the Garden Bridge disaster became apparent & he became the first former mayor to be summoned to give evidence to the London Assembly. He faced tough Qs & his attack on me was a classic Lynton Crosby 'dead cat' strategy
