Brighton to host The School of Re-Construction in 2020.
The University of Brighton’s School of Architecture & Design will be hosting a five day International Summer School from August 17th-21st 2020. Aimed at students and professionals from the worlds of design, architecture, construction and engineering, ‘The School of Re-Construction’ will demonstrate ways to re-use materials from local construction sites.
Students will work in teams with designers and makers to re-think re-use through the reconstruction of disassembled materials to create a series of thought-provoking structures in Brighton’s city centre that will prove that “there’s no such thing as waste, just stuff in the wrong place!”
This project responds to the UK Parliament declaring a Climate & Ecological Emergency in April 2019, as well as Brighton & Hove’s ambition to be Net Carbon Neutral by 2030. The Summer School will encourage the dramatic reduction in the consumption of building materials that currently consume 50% of all raw materials harvested around the world every year. This is important because at present the UK’s construction industry is responsible for 60% of the 200 million tonnes of waste generated annually in the UK.
The University of Brighton team is lead by architect and senior lecturer Duncan Baker-Brown best known for coordinating the building of The Brighton Waste House, “Europe’s first permanent building made of materials other people discarded”. The University of Brighton team includes Antony Roberts, Lucy-Ann Gilbert, Siobhan O’Dowd, Nick Gant, and Dr. Ryan Woodard.
They will be joined by partners from across Europe and Ireland, including re-use experts Rotor from Belgium who are currently deconstructing part of the World Trade Centre in Brussels and Bellastock from France who are deconstructing the 59-storey Montparnasse Tower in Paris.
‘The School of Re-Construction’ is part of an EU ERDF €4.33million INTERREG NWE project. Named FCRBE which stands for ‘Facilitating the Circulation of Reclaimed Building Elements’, this project runs from 2019 until 2022. The project will deliver:
An online directory of more than 1500 specialised reuse operators from across Europe,
A Pre-demolition ‘tool kit’ helping clients who want to know how to deconstruct buildings normally demolished and then re-use this material in new construction projects.
These tools will be tested and promoted through 36 pilot operations taking place in large (de)-construction projects across the INTERREG NEW region
The ambition of this project is to increase by 50% the amount of reclaimed material being re-used in construction projects.
‘This summer school is an experiment that rehearses the profound way architecture and design education will have to change to address climate change. As such it marks a change from a model based on growth and the cult of the new to one based on de-growth, reuse and care.”
For further details email school-of-re-construction@brighton.ac.uk
Students can sign up to take part from February 2020 and more information will be announced in the coming months.
About FCRBE
This project will tackle the stagnation and decline of re-circulated goods in the construction sector in North West Europe by addressing three areas; the limited visibility of SMEs specialised in the reclamation and supply of reusable building elements, their limited access to important building projects and the challenges of integration of reused components into contemporary building practices.
The following FCRBE partners include a mix of specialised organisations, trade associations, research centres, an architecture school (UoB), and public administrations:
Rotor
Salvo Ltd
Construction Confederation
Belgian Building Research Institute
Scientific and technical Center for Building
They will be joined by partners from across Europe and Ireland, including re-use experts Rotor from Belgium who are currently deconstructing part of the World Trade Centre in Brussels and Bellastock from France who are deconstructing the 59-storey Montparnasse Tower in Paris.
‘The School of Re-Construction’ is part of an EU ERDF €4.33million INTERREG NWE project. Named FCRBE which stands for ‘Facilitating the Circulation of Reclaimed Building Elements’, this project runs from 2019 until 2022. The project will deliver:
- An online directory of more than 1500 specialised reuse operators from across Europe,
- A Pre-demolition ‘tool kit’ helping clients who want to know how to deconstruct buildings normally demolished and then re-use this material in new construction projects.
- These tools will be tested and promoted through 36 pilot operations taking place in large (de)-construction projects across the INTERREG NEW region
The ambition of this project is to increase by 50% the amount of reclaimed material being re-used in construction projects.
‘This summer school is an experiment that rehearses the profound way architecture and design education will have to change to address climate change. As such it marks a change from a model based on growth and the cult of the new to one based on de-growth, reuse and care.”
For further details email school-of-re-construction@brighton.ac.uk
Students can sign up to take part from February 2020 and more information will be announced in the coming months.
About FCRBE
This project will tackle the stagnation and decline of re-circulated goods in the construction sector in North West Europe by addressing three areas; the limited visibility of SMEs specialised in the reclamation and supply of reusable building elements, their limited access to important building projects and the challenges of integration of reused components into contemporary building practices.
FCRBE partners include a mix of specialised organisations, trade associations, research centres, an architecture school (UoB), and public administrations: