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Community engagement doesn't have to mean a formal public meeting in a draughty hall, or a feedback form that nobody quite gets round to filling in. Sometimes it looks like a hook-a-duck stall on a sunny April afternoon, with children clamouring for a turn and parents lingering longer than they planned. On 6 April, the HADSCAL team set up at Hay Castle's annual Easter Egg Hunt with Landed Futures to talk to the community about our plans. Alongside the egg hunting and the fest

When HADSCAL started thinking seriously about what the new campus should be, one question kept coming up: what does it really mean to build sustainably? Not just ticking boxes on an environmental checklist, but genuinely doing things differently in a way that could inspire the people who use the campus every day. That question led us to the Living Building Challenge. The Living Building Challenge is widely regarded as the most ambitious and rigorous green building standard in

Hay-on-Wye is a town that punches well above its weight. Famous the world over for its bookshops and its festival, it draws visitors from across the globe and inspires fierce loyalty in the people who live here. But behind the independent spirit and the literary reputation, there's a practical reality that residents know well: Hay has been missing something for a very long time. For more than twenty years, the community has been without the shared facilities it needs and dese