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FUTUREBUILD 2019 WASTE ZONE: DAY 3

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07/03/2019

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The last day of the Waste Zone – Thursday 7th of March 2019 (Day 3)

WasteZone Website

Futurebuild 2019 Website

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

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FUTUREBUILD 2019 WASTE ZONE: DAY 3Today is your last chance to visit the Waste Zone at this year’s Futurebuild. The third and final day of the Waste Zone will bring another set of interesting presentations and debates. More than 20 speakers will discuss following subjects: Circular Cities as potential growth and employment generators, What processes and symptoms support Circular Economies? Social Benefits to Circular Economy and Circular Innovations in London. Each of the talks will be followed by a 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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CATCHING UP WITH DUNCAN BAKER-BAKER BROWN

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01/03/2019

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A podcast episode by The University of Brighton is now available

Make sure you listen to the latest episode of ‘Catching Up With…’ by University of Brighton featuring Duncan Baker-Brown. The ‘Catching up with…’ series focuses on  members of staff from the University of Brighton various departments and provides them with a platform to talk about their interests and professional aspirations.

In the latest podcast Duncan discusses his current schedule which combines his recent research project with The University of Brighton with practising and teaching. Whilst continuing to promote the circular economy through events like Futurebuild’s Waste Zone.

To listen to the full podcast click on the banner bellow.

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WASTE HOUSE FEATURED ON BBC ONE

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19/02/2019

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Air time: Wednesday 20th of February at 09:15 AM

Following Margherita Taylor’s visit to the Waste House in December last year, we are happy to announce that Waste House will be featured in the upcoming episode of Countryfile Diaries airing tomorrow at 9:15 on BBC One. The Waste House segment focuses on how recycled, repurposed and bio materials in built environment could potentially help tackling UK’s housing and landfill crisis. Countryfile Diaries will also be looking at progress on the live research happening at Waste House in partnership with Local Works Studio.

More information on the Waste House can be found here
The episode can also be streamed here

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AN AUTUMN MAKEOVER FOR THE BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE

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19/11/2018

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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

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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

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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

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THE UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON WASTE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE

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04/09/2018

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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

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