Anja offered insight into her outlook for 2025
JRA Associate Director Anja Schellenbauer shared her thoughts for the year ahead with BE News. Read her insights below and check out the full article here.
“Last year proved to be a watershed year for sustainability, with a surge of innovative thought leadership focused on carbon neutrality, re-use and nature-based solutions. Among the most exciting developments was the introduction of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, which creates a much-needed unified methodology and metric for net zero carbon aligned buildings in line with national climate targets.
However, I feel the launches of ‘Don’t Waste Buildings’, ‘The Engineers Re-use Collective’, ‘Circular Do Tank’ and the ‘Romulus Re-use Initiative’ will be the real game changers. Breaking down the last barriers to a viable circular economy, each of these initiatives is already starting to play a pivotal role in re-imagining the use cycle of structures and materials by advocating for practical alternatives to the end-of-life default and premature obsolescence.
While 2024 was undeniably a year of incredible progress, I am optimistic that 2025 will be the year in which we consolidate these isolated pockets of collaborative change and weave together the fragmented pieces of the sustainability puzzle into a symbiotic systems-based approach.”
Anja Schellenbauer
Associate director, John Robertson Architects
