Category: Waste
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Build Aotearoa 15: Building Circularity
The construction industry plays a pivotal role in the quest for a sustainable, low-carbon future. Traditional construction practices follow a linear model: take, make, dispose. However, this approach leads to significant waste and resource depletion. Enter building circularity – a transformative concept that aims to design and construct buildings for long-term sustainability, ensuring materials can…
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206: How to Save Time and Money on Green Certification
Green certification of building projects faces multiple challenges; from sourcing appropriate products, documenting and verifying materials, through to minimising, sorting and recording construction waste. Compiling all this information in a form that’s useful for the certifying agency can be yet another big challenge. Through Green Badger, Tommy Linstroth’s goals is to make sustainability in the…
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Go Green Expo
Who’s going to the Go Green Expo? I just had a quick Skype chat with Operations Manager, Damien Hochberg about why he created the expo and what it’s all about. Unfortunately this means that my blog posts are a bit out of order (I’m yet to write up my interview with Mark R LePage from…
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Prefab Houses with Pamela Bell
Prefab houses have so much to offer. So why are we not doing more of it here in New Zealand, right now? This week, I spoke with CEO of PrefabNZ, Pamela Bell to discuss this very issue. The Name Prefab For many New Zealanders, the reason why there’s resistance to prefab is in the name. More…
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16 That’s Not Rubbish!
I have a thing about ‘rubbish’. I guess I have a thing about a lot of things that don’t really makes sense in our modern lives, but let’s not get started on all that. A presenter at the recent Auckland Home Show summed it up well when she said that no organic material should ever…