Welcome back to Building Sustainability, this episode I'm joined by Architect, Academic , Author & Environmental Activist - Duncan Baker Brown. We are talking circular economy in the built environment, issues of sustainable development, deconstruction and closed-looped systems.

  • We've had a short break here while doing a plastering job for the Design Museum in London. The exhibition opens on the 23rd of October 2021 and full info can be found here: https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/waste-age-what-can-design-do

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Episode 61 Duncan Baker-Brown links

  • The Reuse Atlas (Duncan's book) - https://www.ribabooks.com/The-Re-Use-Atlas-A-Designers-Guide-Towards-a-Circular-Economy_9781859466445
  • Designers can save the earth! (Presentation) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27bzTobpQMk
  • Intereg FCRBE (Facilitating the circulation of reclaimed building elements)- https://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/fcrbe-facilitating-the-circulation-of-reclaimed-building-elements-in-northwestern-europe/
  • Architects Journal Retro First - https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/introducing-retrofirst-a-new-aj-campaign-championing-reuse-in-the-built-environment
  • Insulate Britain - https://www.insulatebritain.com/
  • LETI climate emergency design guide - https://www.leti.london/cedg
  • Retrofit Academy - https://www.retrofitacademy.org/
  • Superuse Harvest Map - https://www.superuse-studios.com/harvest-collect-reuse/
  • Romney Marsh (Project) - https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reserves/romney-marsh-visitor-centre-and-nature-reserve
  • The waste house - https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/feature/brighton-waste-house.aspx
  • Freegle - https://www.ilovefreegle.org/
  • School of Reconstruction - https://aia-brighton.org/2020/the-school-of-re-construction-website-is-now-live/
  • RotorDC - https://rotordc.com/
  • Paris tower block rennovation (Project) - https://www.architectural-review.com/today/lacaton-vassals-revitalisation-of-a-parisian-tower-block
  • 1 Trinton Square refurbishment (project)- https://www.arup.com/projects/1-triton-square
  • Wood recycling Network - https://communitywoodrecycling.org.uk/

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