Regenerative Sustainability and Timber Buildings

Martin Brown, Fairsnape, UKUK Living Building Challenge AmbassadorLiving Future Europe AdvisorVice Chair RESTORE EU Cost Action

Regenerative Sustainability Insights

RESTORE, EU Cost Action,

FutuREstorative,

Living Building Challenge,

Cuerden Valley Visitor Center, 1st LBC in UK/EU,

B R U N D T L A N D 1987

D O N O T H I N G T O D A Y T O C O M P R O M I S E T O M O R R O W ’ S G E N E R A T I O N

I P C C

2018 IPCC

We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe.

2019

Its worse, far worse than you could ever imagine.

What does 1.5 Deg C mean?

BUILT ENVIRONMENT THE 40% SECTOR

Solastalgia – mental or existential distress from environmental changeSourceSource: FutuREstorative 2016

Our Earth Was Once Green

B U S I N E S S A S U S U A L

S U S T A I N A B L E

R E G E N E R A T I V E

R E D U C I N G I M P A C T

P O S I T I V E G O O D

R E S T O R A T I V EG R E E N

Sources FutuREstorative

We no longer have the luxury of being less bad …

SUSTAINABILITY:

Limiting impact. Balance point where we give back as much as we take.

RESTORATIVE:

Returning social and ecological systems to a healthy state.

REGENERATIVE:

Enabling social and ecological systems to maintain a healthy state and to evolve.

Regenerative Sustainability

Its where …

… and where magic happens

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ECO.EGO. SEVA.

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Man’s tyrannical dominionover nature

Earth friendly actions to reduce our impact on the planet

Thinking, Designing, Making, as part of nature, not apart from

nature,

TREES. BILLIONS. BUILDINGS. TREES. BILLIONS

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Instead of a world that is merely a less bad version of the one we currently

have, we ask —

WHAT DOES GOOD LOOK LIKE?

IMAGINE IF EVERY ACT OF CONSTRUCTION MADE THE PLANET A BETTER PLACE

LIVING BUILDING

CHALLENGE

What does GOOD look

like?

CUERDEN VALLEY PARK VISITOR CENTER, PRESTON, UNITED KINGDOM.SEEKING LIVING CERTIFICATION

Biophilic Design … Connecting people with nature through the built environment:

T H E M A T E R I A L S W E B U I L D W I T H C A N A F F E C T O U R W E L L - B E I N G A S M U C H A S T H E F O O D W E E A T , T H E W A T E R W E D R I N K A N D T H E A I R T H A T W E B R E A T H

H E A L T H Y B U I L D I N G S N E T W O R K

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RED LIST

Taking Toxic Materials out of our buildings

A DECLARE LABEL ANSWERS THREE QUESTIONS:

Where does a product come from?

What is it made of?

Where does it go at the end of its life?

REMOVE FUGITIVE CARBON

INCREASE DURABLE CARBON

RESTORE LIVING CARBON

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REIMAGINE CARBON

Imagine if … building design, construction and MEP services education started with the ecological understanding of how a tree functions?

Connecting people with nature through the built environment.

The Center and Café, designed as nature, has helped increase footfall to the park 4 fold

“The more clearly we focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

~ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

Regenerative Sustainability and Timber Buildings

Martin Brown, Fairsnape, UKUK Living Building Challenge AmbassadorLiving Future Europe AdvisorVice Chair RESTORE EU Cost Action