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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

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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

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.

UNIVERSITY BUSINESS AND EDQUARTER PUBLICATIONS

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Responsible futures and a circular economy

The University Business

EDQuarter 

The University Business and ED Quarter websites have recently published an article written by Duncan. The article entitled “Responsible futures and a circular economy” discusses designing a circular economy and how tech and HE industries can help. Within the article Duncan discusses several of his case studies featured in his book “The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer’s Guide Towards a Circular Economy”.

Responsible futures and a circular economy  The University Business EDQuarter 

The full articles can be found on The University Business and EDQuarter websites.

For further details on Duncan’s most recent research project visit our news page here.

THE ARGUS FEATURE THE WASTE HOUSE

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“Architect’s plea to construction firms”

Featured Project: The Waste House at the University of Brighton 

The Argus website

Newspaper Issue: 15th May 2018

Be sure to collect a copy of todays Argus newspaper!

“Architect’s plea to construction firms” the article discusses Duncan’s thoughts on constructing buildings as material stores for the future. The article features the award winning University of Brighton Waste House, for further details on the project and Duncan’s current research project click here.

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018

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Interreg Research Project Conference

Location: Ilec Conference Centre, 47 Lillie Road, Fulham, London, SW6 1UD 

Dates: 26th March 09:30 – 16:30

Visitor Registration – Free to attend

Conference page

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018

Duncan will be speaking at “Materials of Architecture 2018” tomorrow at the Ilec conference centre. As part of his current research project he will be discussing product re-use and buildings as material banks.

Teaming up with ASBP, Interreg and Sustainable Bio & Waste Resources for Construction (SB&WRC) the research project is making significant progress towards the design and manufacture of the first insulation prototypes made from biobased and recycled materials.

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018

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

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.

The full programme and exhibitor list can be found here.

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTURE 2018