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WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY

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The Waste House listed as a sustainability success story

Website: Edie.net

Project Page: The Waste House, Grand Parade, University of Brighton

WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY
The award winning Waste House has received further press this week from the popular sustainability website Edie.net. As part of our their Mission Possible campaign, this week they have produced a weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe. The full article can be read here.

The Brighton Waste House is the first permanent ‘carbon negative’ public building in Europe to be constructed from approximately 90% waste, surplus material & discarded plastic gathered from the construction and other industries, as well as our homes. It has Full Planning & Building Regulations Approvals. It tries to prove “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place!”

WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY
Now an open design research studio, run in partnership with our colleagues delivering the Sustainable Design MA on campus who us it as their teaching studio for two days a week, the Brighton Waste House is be available to schools, colleges and community groups for ‘green’ themed events and any interested parties can join in with sustainable design workshops and events curated by designers, artists, makers, builders, scientists writers-in-residence, whoever is interested.

WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY

BBM SUPPORT MAKE LEWES FESTIVAL 2018

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BBM are proud to support the Make Lewes Festival 2018

The events are curated and organised by a Lewes-based community organisation that promotes the exchange of knowledge in the fields of Making, Architecture, Design & Sustainability.


In particular BBM are helping to sponsor: 
FutureScoping – On the future of Lewes’s cultural infrastructure provision: What do we want? What does Lewes need?
Sunday September 30th, 13.30 – 17.30, Depot Cinema, Pinwell Rd, BN7 2JS map
Tickets – £6.50 Concessions – £4.50
Tickets will be available soon on the Depot website

Featuring:
John Burrell, director Burrell Foley Fischer Architects, the architects of Lewes Depot
Alison Grant, founder and director of Fitzroy House –  Lewes’s latest cultural hub
Frances Hollis WorkHome advocate and researcher on this new ‘beyond LiveWork’ housing approach
Piers Taylor, Invisible Studio experimental architect, most recently on the participatory artists and makers Watchett Arts Hub
Jess Steele, director Jericho Road, social and community development, led Hastings Pier community organisation
Further speakers to be announced

FurureScoping is part of Make Lewes Festival 2018
For more information email: info@makinglewes.org

DUNCAN TO SPEAK AT UNMAKING WASTE 2018

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Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use

When: Conference runs from 20th-23rd September 2018

Duncan will be speaking on Friday 21st September at 15:45

Registration link

Location: University of South Australia (UniSA) Hawke Building, UniSA West Campus, Adelaide, SA, 5000

Full details

This Friday Duncan will be a keynote speaker at “The Unmaking Waste 2018” international conference in Adelaide. The conference will be hosted by the China-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the University of South Australia.

“Building upon the achievements of our first conference, Unmaking Waste: Transforming Production and Consumption in Time and Place (May 2015), Unmaking Waste 2018 will be focused on the problem of consumption itself, and its role in increasing emissions, resource depletion and environmental degradation. The following themes will be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective:

  1. Eco-Design and Development:
    Designing, defining and managing objects, buildings, precincts and systems to reduce resource and energy use, and thus increase environmental and human well-being.
  2. Sustainable Consumption:
    Transforming behaviour, social practices, everyday consumption and service provision, including marketing, to better suit a resource-constrained, environmentally challenged world.
  3. Waste Minimization:
    Reducing waste and pollution at all scales, in all domains and activities, and in all places, and transforming this waste and pollution into states of greater value for reuse.
  4. Circular Economy:
    Optimizing social, material and economic relations and the value of goods and services to further the goals of the Circular Economy, including product and environment life-extension, reuse and repair.”

Further details on the event can be found here.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

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Brighton’s Waste House among the world’s most eco-friendly homes

The University of Brighton’s Waste House has been ranked one of the world’s most eco-friendly homes by a leading design company.

India-based design consultancy Minds Eye Design produced a YouTube film of some of the world’s most sustainable home builds and placed the University’s in third spot: https://youtu.be/bQnJpf0ge00

The award-winning Waste House, designed by architect and University of Brighton lecturer Duncan Baker-Brown, was made almost entirely from thrown away materials most of which were heading for landfill sites.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE PRESS RELEASEBaker-Brown said: “We are delighted the Waste House has been recognised in this way, and it is marvellous that the House is continuing to receive accolades four years after it was completed.”

“This is a reflection of the tremendous hard work and commitment invested in the project by many people including 350 students from the University and Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, volunteers, FREEGLE, the online reuse network which sourced much of the Waste House materials, The Mears Group and many contributing companies and organisations.”

Materials used in the project included 20,000 toothbrushes, two tonnes of denim jeans, 4,000 DVD cases, 2,000 floppy discs, 2,000 used carpet tiles, and construction waste.

Situated in the grounds of the University’s City Campus in Grand Parade, the Waste House is a live, ongoing research project and permanent new design workshop focused on enabling open discussion and understanding of sustainable development.

For more information about the House go to: http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/projects/wastehouse or visit our project page here. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

SB&WRC PROJECT AT THE WASTE HOUSE

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Research project development

Project background

Construction 21

University of Brighton Waste House

“For every five houses built one house worth of material goes to landfill or incineration”

SB&WRC PROJECT AT THE WASTE HOUSE

The project intends to manufacture insulation prototypes made solely from bio-based and recycled materials. Supported by the INTERREG VA France (Channel) England programme the project receives financial support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

SB&WRC PROJECT AT THE WASTE HOUSE

The University of Brighton is one of the English partners of the SB&WRC project. Their deep involvement in alternative building technologies has led to impressive experiments and results that continue to inspire researchers and practitioners. Duncan, Dr. Ryan Woodard, Senior Research Fellow within the School of Environment and Technology, and Ben Bosence, an expert in building conservation are currently working together to create one of the insulation prototypes.

SB&WRC PROJECT AT THE WASTE HOUSE

Last month Duncan met with the partners of the INTERREG SB&WRC at The University of Brighton’s Waste House. The hot topic of conversation was the progress which has been made since the last strategic meeting in January. Full details on the day can be found here.

SB&WRC PROJECT AT THE WASTE HOUSE

The Brighton Waste House is the first permanent ‘carbon negative’ public building in Europe to be constructed from approximately 90% waste, surplus material & discarded plastic gathered from the construction and other industries, as well as our homes. It has Full Planning & Building Regulations Approvals. It tries to prove “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place!”.

SB&WRC PROJECT AT THE WASTE HOUSE

GREEN SOLUTIONS AWARDS 2018

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Cast your votes for The Waste House

Green Solutions Awards

Construction21

This years Green Solutions Awards will showcase exemplary buildings, districts and infrastructures who are contributing to fight against climate change. With your vote the Brighton Waste House could gain further acknowledgment for its green credentials.  The International competition is run by the Construction21 network who provide a dedicated platform to all professionals active in the sustainable building and city sector.

GREEN SOLUTIONS AWARDS 2018You can find The Waste House listed under three out of five of the categories which are as follows:
Energy & Temperature Climates
Energy & Hot Climates
Low Carbon
Health and Comfort
Smart Building
Users’ Choice

To find out more about the awards and cast your vote please click here.

GREEN SOLUTIONS AWARDS 2018​The Brighton Waste House is the first permanent ‘carbon negative’ public building in Europe to be constructed from approximately 90% waste, surplus material & discarded plastic gathered from the construction and other industries, as well as our homes. It has Full Planning & Building Regulations Approvals. It tries to prove “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place!”

About 65% of the waste material utilised in this building is from the notoriously wasteful construction industry (around 20% of construction material ends up in landfill-WRAP). However the idea was developed further with Cat Fletcher founder of FREEGLE UK. Cat suggested the we draw attention to the huge environmental consequences of throwing away everyday consumable domestic objects, as well as including other industrial waste streams in the project. Therefore the Waste House also ‘locks’ other sources of waste material, often utilising it as low to medium grade insulation.

GREEN SOLUTIONS AWARDS 2018One of the main aims of the project was to prove “that there is no such thing and waste, just stuff in the wrong place”. It is also an exercise in truly open accessible collaborative design and construction. This innovative low energy building was constructed completely by over 360 students & volunteers as young as 15 years old.

The project continues a line of research by BBM considering truly sustainable sources of materials and construction systems, or to be more precise truly ‘circular metabolisms’ that will one day help create a ‘Circular Economy’. Baker-Brown’s experience on this project has enabled him to write a book ‘The Re-Use Atlas: A designers guide towards a Circular Economy’.

UNMAKING WASTE 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

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Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use

When: 20th-23rd September 2018

Registration link

Location: University of South Australia (UniSA)

Buildings as material banks: Designing for perceptual re-use When: September 20-23 2018 Registration link Location: University of South Australia (UniSA) 
In September Duncan will be a keynote speaker at “The Unmaking Waste 2018” international conference. The conference will be hosted by the China-Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the University of South Australia.

“Building upon the achievements of our first conference, Unmaking Waste: Transforming Production and Consumption in Time and Place (May 2015), Unmaking Waste 2018 will be focused on the problem of consumption itself, and its role in increasing emissions, resource depletion and environmental degradation. The following themes will be addressed from a multidisciplinary perspective:

  1. Eco-Design and Development:
    Designing, defining and managing objects, buildings, precincts and systems to reduce resource and energy use, and thus increase environmental and human well-being.
  2. Sustainable Consumption:
    Transforming behaviour, social practices, everyday consumption and service provision, including marketing, to better suit a resource-constrained, environmentally challenged world.
  3. Waste Minimization:
    Reducing waste and pollution at all scales, in all domains and activities, and in all places, and transforming this waste and pollution into states of greater value for reuse.
  4. Circular Economy:
    Optimizing social, material and economic relations and the value of goods and services to further the goals of the Circular Economy, including product and environment life-extension, reuse and repair.”

Further details on the event can be found here.