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Waste is just a resource in the wrong place….

….The Waste House story

The world consumes

45-60 billion tonnes

of raw materials every year.

To make

7 billion people

UK construction industry

• The construction and operation of the built environment consumes 60% of all materials, results in 33% of all waste and accounts for 45% of CO2eq emissions in the UK.

• Tackling the impacts associated with buildings and infrastructure - from design through in-use to demolition - is critical for meeting UK government's 2050 greenhouse gas targets.

• In 2010 for every 5 new houses built, 1 house worth of waste was created.

World’s first public building made with 90% waste multi award winning passes full building regulations

permanent planning permission

• REthink • Design

• Procurement

• Materials

• Project Management

• Time

• Space

• Money

• Collaboration

Floppy discs

Cassette tapes

Video tapes and boxes

DVDs and cases

CDs and cases

Vinyl records

Obsolete technology & accessories

Bicycle inner tubes & tyres

Toothbrushes

Insulation

Bricks and Chalk

Plastics and Polystyrene

Wood

Skateboards

Concrete blocks

Vinyl lamp post banners

Denim jean legs and jacket arms

Christmas decorations and detritus

Wallpaper

Perspex

Sand and cement

Carpet Tiles

Materials incorporated into the design and construction of Brighton Waste House

• UK 8 million tonnes wood thrown out every year.

• 80% is reusable but isn’t.

• UK Wood Recycling Network diverted 8,500 tonnes wood

from waste stream in 2012.

• Brighton Wood Store handles 450 tonnes wood each year.

387,495 litres paint donated and 218,000 litres redistributed in 2012

www.communityrepaint.org.uk

www.newlifepaints.com Recycles old, unwanted,

discarded paint.

Re-processed 100,000 litres in 2011 into new paint.

1,000 rolls of new wallpaper

15,000 video tapes

20,000 toothbrushes

10 cubic metres of polystyrene

1,000s vinyl streetlamp banners

2 tonnes denim jean legs

Chalk wall and Lidner recycled paper steps

Cladding…..

400,000 tonnes of old carpet is landfilled every year in UK

Materials: intercepted from waste then reused or upcycled

Brighton Waste House

• College of Arts and Humanities campus University of Brighton

• Grand parade Brighton BN2 0JY

http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/ease/wastehouse

• Duncan Baker Brown

• http://www.bbm-architects.co.uk/

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• wastehousebookings@brighton.ac.uk

@WasteHouse

@BBMarchitects

https://www.facebook.com/BrightonWasteHouse