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New standard and guide for the circular economy: BS 8001:2017
Following consultant the BSI has launched a new standard for the circular economy, BS 8001:2017: Framework for implementing the principles of the circular economy in organisations, the world’s first...
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Circular By Design
Circular Economy: the Bright Building at Bradford University Furthering the discussion on circular economy here on the fairsnape blog, the recent publication Circular by Design, Products in the...
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Exploring Restorative Sustainability with COST RESTORE
The work and progress of the COST RESTORE Working Group One is nicely summarised in this Infographic. You can find out more on the RESTORE website, and there is still time to apply for the (free,...
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Regenerative Disruption: Construction Materials, from Linear to Circular.
This is not Sustainable. Echoing themes from Cradle to Cradle and FutuREstorative on impact of construction waste and materials … namely An industry that demands over half of humanities resources...
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Regenerative thinking embedded in new DGNB System 2017.
Sustainable building certification standards are immense influencers on not only the built environment sector but also commercial, industrial and domestic green lifestyles. With that influence comes a...
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Reimagining Construction Materials: (Waste) Food for Thought.
A new Arup publication, (The Urban Bio-Loop) aims to demonstrate that a different paradigm for materials in construction is possible, through the adoption of organic waste re-imagined as construction...
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4 Laws of Ecology: Revisited
I undertook the task earlier this week of reviewing references for our upcoming RESTORE working group publication {Sustainability, Restorative to Regenerative}. One of those references was to Barry...
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Sustainability, Restorative to Regenerative
Our RESTORE Cost Action publication that records the outputs of the sustainability working group is now available to download from the RESTORE website. This publication, with contributions from over...
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Recent Reading …
This is the first in a regular series covering pieces I have been reading online that I think are worthy of further sharing. Followers on twitter, linkedin and to a lesser degree on Instgram will be...
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Smart material reuse and sustainability innovations reduce construction and...
Smart material reuse and sustainability innovations at British Land development will reduce carbon in construction and operation by 33% … British Land Development at 1 Triton Square works closely with...
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