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FUTUREBUILD 2019 WASTE ZONE: DAY 1

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05/03/2019

/ BBM Architects
The Waste Zone is underway – Tuesday 5th of March 2019 (Day 1)

WasteZone Website

Futurebuild 2019 Website

Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL

Planning your trip 

Get your free visitor ticket

After much anticipation today marks the start of The WasteZone at this year’s Futurebuild. Tuesday’s Waste Talk Area will provide a platform for over 25 experts in sustainability from the UK, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands to exchange inspiring ideas on the circular economy. Among the topics for today: Responsible waste/resource management, Circular Cities and Low Carbon material options for construction industry. Each of the speakers will complete a short presentation on their chosen subject which will be followed by a debate and Q&A session.

The full discussions programme can be found here

Responsible Futures’ Waste Zone will help you to navigate away from the current take, make and throw-away society towards an intelligent, closed-loop system where waste is seen as a valuable resource.

This year’s Waste Zone has an new exciting new format. The introduction of a Circular Economy Hub will act as a marketplace for visitors and innovators to discuss their products. Visitors can experience the re-use possibilities of the top ten construction waste streams in an eye-opening exhibition in the new foyer area which surrounds the seminar area. These spill-out zones will showcase circular economy research, innovations and products from experts in the UK and Europe.

The Waste Zone seminar programme – Waste Talk – will see more than 50 industry-leading speakers over the next 3 days. The debates aim at addressing the challenges and opportunities a circular economy presents. The sessions will explore ways in which waste materials can be integrated into construction projects, how existing buildings can be deconstructed instead of demolished, and how new buildings can be designed as material stores for the future.

More on the Waste Zone:

‘Constructing a sustainable future’ – University of Brighton article

‘There’s money to be made in reusing existing buildings’ – Duncan Baker-Brown for AJ

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ANOTHER PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED

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04/01/2019

/ BBM Architects
BBM receives planning approval for a low-energy modern house in Mayfield, East Sussex

We are proud to announce, that planning approval has been granted for a low-energy house in Mayfield, East Sussex. The planning committee refused the initial scheme however with some minor alterations this was overturned at appeal.

The project proposes a replacement of the existing 1960’s dwelling with a contemporary low-energy house and associated landscaping to suit. The scheme aims to retain the split level characteristics of its predecessor. Particular sensitivity has been paid in selecting the exterior materials which will have a minimal impact to the surrounding area and account for changing material appearances throughout the properties lifespan. The design features a bipartite elevation consisting of natural stone walling to the lower level and a dark vertical timber at first floor.  Significant amount of glazing to the south elevation of the house will allow for better views over the Weald. The scheme also features a flat meadow hay roof with Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal panels arranged to provide maximum efficiency.

The construction of the new house is expected to begin in the summer of 2019.

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THE WASTE ZONE AT FUTUREBUILD 2019

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27/11/2018

/ BBM Architects
BBM returning to curate The Waste Zone once again

WasteZone Website

Futurebuild 2019 Website

Location: Excel London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London, E16 1XL

Planning your trip 

Dates: Tuesday 5th March until Thursday 7th March 2019

Get your free visitor ticket

Book a stand

THE WASTE ZONE AT FUTUREBUILD 2019

“Futurebuild is the evolution of ecobuild and fulfilment of the bold vision for the future that we first announced following the acquisition of the event at the end of 2016. Futurebuild 2019 brings together opinion-shapers, decision-makers and product innovators under a common purpose to explore the latest technologies and approaches, and debate the biggest issues facing the build environment – now and in the future – both in the UK and overseas.”

The Waste Zone will return to this year’s Futurebuild with new and extended features. Curated by our very own Duncan Baker-brown, the event space will contain a new Circular Economy Hub, a marketplace and new platform dedicated to direct interaction between visitors and manufacturers. This will allow for presentations of new and emerging materials, systems and groundbreaking ideas that will shape the future of sustainable construction industry. The Hub will be held in a unique and refreshing format of beach huts, developed and provided by the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Brighton. The exhibition space will be complemented by the Waste Zone seminar programme, which due to extraordinary success of 2018 will be further extended providing additional audience spaces. This years session will explore the ideas revolving around use of waste materials in the construction process and the use of existing and future buildings as material stores for the future.

With the focus is on creating a truly waste free experience, apart from the reusable exhibition beach huts, Futurebuild is also calling out for Cradle to Cradle Certified™ suppliers to provide their support in bring the Waste Zone to life.

The WasteZone discussions will be supported by an inspirational exhibition of the products, materials and buildings, as well as new digital platforms and films, which are enabling an emergent circular economy and proving “that there is no such thing as waste, just stuff in the ‘wrong place’.

THE WASTE ZONE AT FUTUREBUILD 2019

 

 

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BBM INVITED BACK TO THE BREAKY BOTTOM AND OFF THE LINE VINEYARD PROJECTS

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23/11/2018

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BBM have recently had the pleasure to be invited to re-visit some of our vineyard projects, including the well established Breaky Bottom Vineyard in Rodmell near Lewes and the newly created Off the Line Vineyard in Hellinglly, East Sussex. We visited Breaky Bottom during the bumper 2018 season harvest, to see the processes first hand. This season we also had an opportunity to visit the newly completed BBM’s purposed-designed winery building at Off the Line Vineyard, which had just processed the grapes for the first time.

Visiting projects after completion allows us to carry out post occupancy evaluation (POE), which is a crucial part of what we do as architects as it helps determine the positive and negative aspects of completed design work.

To find out more about these projects follow the links bellow:

Off the Line Vineyard project page, here

Breaky Bottom project page, here

You can also visit both of vineyards websites by clicking here or here.

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AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE

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19/11/2018

/ BBM Architects
A revamp for The University of Brighton’s Waste House

The Brighton Waste House project page

Supported by: INTERREG VA France (Channel) England


The award winning University of Brighton’s Waste House is currently undergoing an innovative makeover.

AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSEIn line with Duncan’s ongoing research project with Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction (SB&WRC) and INTERREG VA France (Channel) England The Waste House has incorporated new recycled and reused materials into the building fabric.

Since the recent success and publicity of David Attenborough’s BBC series Blue Planet II The Waste House has gained further recognition.

The Waste House is almost entirely made from thrown away materials most of which were heading for landfill or incineration. Materials used in the construction include toothbrushes, denim jeans, dvd cases, floppy discs, carpet tiles and construction waste. These materials have now been joined by used duvets from The University of Brighton’s halls of residence which are being used as insulation. Whilst oyster shells from the critically acclaimed English’s oyster bar have been mixed with waste aggregates from a neighbouring building site (Preston Barracks) to form wall tiles.

AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE

Duncan recently spoke about the buildings modifications:

“It is great to see the Waste House continuing to break new ground four years after it was first completed. Duvets and oyster shells are not currently widely recycled yet, like so many of the other materials we have used, are perfectly suited to alternative uses. We will now be testing how they perform so that we can demonstrate to others the huge potential.”

Further reading: The University of Brighton’s Architecture and Interior Architecture blog.

AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE

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INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE

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19/10/2018

/ BBM Architects
The world is their oyster

The partners at Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction (SB&WRC) research project have continued to make significant progress towards the design and manufacture of the first insulation prototypes made from biobased and recycled materials. 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.

The project is supported by the INTERREG VA France (Channel) England programme and receives financial support from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Duncan, Dr Ryan Woodard, Nick Gant of Community 21, Dr. Ryan Southall and Ben Bosence of Local Works Studio are looking at the potentials of sourcing waste material flows local to construction sites to provide material for insulation and rain screen cladding of social housing developments.

INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE
Over 7 million tonnes of mollusc shells are discarded by the seafood industry every year. These shells consist of over 90% calcium carbonate. Crushed shells can reduce soil acidity in agriculture or be fed to egg-laying hens as a calcium supplement. However calcium carbonate is also a common ingredient in the production of cement that is one of the largest sources of harmful CO2 emissions. Currently the majority of the cement industry’s calcium carbonate is coming from ecologically harmful and unsustainable limestone mining.

INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE
One of the projects has the University of Brighton team partnering with restaurants recycling oyster shells into beautiful tiles suitable to hang on the outside of buildings. One restaurant, ‘English’s of Brighton’, who throw away over 50,000 oyster shells annually, have donated shells to the project. Local Works Studio fire some shells to 900°C to create ‘quick lime’ and mix it with unfired crushed oyster shells forming an aggregate. Pressing the mixture into silicone castes there is a natural chemical reaction when water is added to the mix creating some heat. This hydraulic reaction is similar to concrete ‘curing’. After about 3 weeks the tiles are hard enough to hang on a building. Ben from Local Works states that “We’re working on 50kg of oyster per m2 of hung tile. Traditional clay tiles are 78kg/m2.” So not only we are working with waste material, but the manufacturing process is more efficient that the current system.

INTERREG RESEARCH PROJECT UPDATE
To read the full article click here.
Further details on the projects earlier research can be found here.

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WASTE HOUSE CLASSED AMONG WORLDS MOST ECO FRIENDLY

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10/10/2018

/ BBM Architects
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

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