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Greenovation
How green construction brings opportunities
for entreprenuers and small-scale builders
EcoBuild 2011
Jonathan Essex
BioRegional Development Group
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Greenovation – new enterprise opportunities
1. Community Led Innovation opportunities
Entrepreneur or community-led enterprises
• Re-use of surplus building products
• Sustainable Retrofit – introducing Local United• Sustainable Retrofit – introducing Local United
2. Larger opportunities
• EcoPark for Social Enterprises
• Reclaimed materials
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The Problem: Waste in the UK
•335 million tonnes of waste each year
Why Reuse – Why Focus on Resources?
waste each year
• 29.7 million tonnes of municipal waste
• 90 million tonnes of inert construction waste
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As a society, we are consuming natural resources at an unsustainable rate … Our goal is to make the
UK Waste Hierarchy
As a society, we are consuming natural resources
Why Reuse – A Waste Priority
Our goal is to make the transition towards what the WWF and BioRegional call ‘One Planet Living’.
consuming natural resources at an unsustainable rate … Our goal is to make the transition towards what the WWF and BioRegional call ‘One Planet Living’.
Defra Waste Strategy (2007)
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down-cycling
Why Reuse – Cut Embodied Carbon
Taken from the Low Carbon Construction Innovation and Growth Team Final Report, 2010
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• Reduce Waste. There are surplus reusable items even on sites where waste prevention minimises packaging, damage and on-site waste.
• Save resources and ‘Embodied’ Carbon. Reuse is part of culture change towards preventing waste.
• Better Site Management. Research shows this is
Why Reuse – Construction Benefits
• Better Site Management. Research shows this is not a priority for most site managers – who need a simple solution, to collect from all sites in an area and reuse locally. SWMP and CSR.
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• Business model is tried and tested in US.
• Utilise vacant land assets
• Reused Building Materials Cheaper than New
• Links to Trainee and Apprenticeship Schemes
Why Reuse – Wider Benefits
• Links to Trainee and Apprenticeship Schemes
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Benefits to the GovernmentNI 006: Participation in regular volunteering
N117: 16 to 18 year olds who are not in education training or employment
NI151: Overall employment rate as a % of the working age population.
NI 153: Working age people claiming out of work benefits in the worst
Why Reuse – Create New Jobs
NI 153: Working age people claiming out of work benefits in the worst performing neighborhoods
As well as EnvironmentNI 193: Percentage of municipal waste landfilledNI 196: Improved street and environmental
cleanliness
"This course means the world to me because it's given me a direction and goal to fulfill. It's given me self motivation, sense of responsibility and new skills which I thought I could never have achieved." - StMungo’s Client
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1. Community Enterprises in Construction
• Re-use of surplus building products
• Reclaimed materials - Timber Reuse and Recycling
• Sustainable Retrofit – introducing Local United
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Barriers to Reuse ReIY Solutions
Time and Lack of commitment
Lack of space and
Can we fix it?
Lack of space and cost of land
Labour Intensive Process
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Barriers to Reuse ReIY Solutions
Time and Lack of commitment
Reusing surplus product and
Yes We Can!
Lack of space and cost of land
Labour Intensive
product and reclamation are big opportunities to save waste, carbon and money.
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Barriers to Reuse ReIY Solutions
Time and Lack of commitment
Efficient collection serviceReports for SWMPand CSR
Acquire Storage yard
Yes We Can!
Lack of space and cost of land
Acquire Storage yardPartner with LA, housing association, training centre
Labour IntensiveLabour (not plant/resource) intensive. Employ trainees and volunteers.
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Solution: Reuse It Yourself Centres
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Stores open so far:
Scotland www.yooz.me. South London www.arc-croydon.org.uk.
Kent www.concepttraining.co.uk
Middlesbrough www.rebne.co.uk.
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Download Business Plan and How-To Guide
www.reiy.net
http://www.nef.org.uk/communities/local-united.html
www.nef.org.uk/communities/local-united.html.
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Wider Set of Enterprise Packs available
www.communitywoodrecycling.org.uk
http://www.nef.org.uk/communities/local-united.html
Also transport, hydro, AD,
www.nef.org.uk/communities/local-united.html.
hydro, AD, wind and food enterprises.
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2. EcoPark and wider challenges
• Reclaimed Materials - see www.salvoweb.com.
• EcoPark for Social Enterprises
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Reuse and Recycling Projects
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Social Enterprise EcoPark to maximise job creation, waste reduction and carbon saved
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Social Enterprise EcoPark over 20 acres
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London Reuse Network
© LCRN
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Scaling up Reuse
© LCRN
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Political buy-in for reuse
© LCRN
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Capital consumption report (London)
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Current drivers incentivise biomass
Overall
incentive
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Reuse would create new jobs
25 jobs
2 – 4 jobs
1 job
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EcoPark starting with empty site?
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Or opportunity like this disused airfield?
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Reuse empty land and buildings
www.meanwhile .org.ukwww.theplacestation.org.uk
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Over to You.
Discussion.Discussion.