Thank you for the coverage Lloyd, much appreciated! Just to clarify, we did not produce the image in the middle ("Embodied carbon is happening now"), but we borrowed it from our friends at OneClickLCA, https://oneclicklca.com/en/resources/articles/embodied-carbon-vs-operational-carbon. Very sorry about that! Many thanks, Richard Nelson, Co-Founder, DWB
Living in Moscow in the late 1990s, I was amazed at how many of the buildings predated the 1917 revolution. Historical preservation, however, meant saving the facade and replacing everything else. Manhattan also has large numbers and even neighborhoods of century or more older buildings still in use. Meanwhile my Arlington County, Virginia neighborhood is replacing 75 year old brick ramblers with $1 to $2 million McMansions. We are seeing a few more vacant office buildings being proposed for conversion to residential purposes but that may involve significant interior demolition and end up as upper tier housing.
Any chance of opening a Canadian (Ontario) Chapter? The present provincial government is hell bent of eliminating as many Heritage protections, as fast as they can. Heritage protection is one way DWB can gets implemented.
Thanks @Lloyd Alter for bringing www.DontWasteBuildings.com to the attention of your audience. Your point about panels is valid and that is why we run case study tours. Seeing is believing and hearing from the people responsible for the finance as well as the technical execution has bought this campaign to life.
The roadways sector in the U.S. could/should learn from the “retrofit” (SBA or Stop Building Anew) philosophy and, that is, to adopt an FIF or Fix It First philosophy, most especially in urban settings. Adding pavement seems to only serve to encourage more driving rather than to relieve congestion, which, as I understand it, also goes by another name: Induced Demand or ID.
Thank you for the coverage Lloyd, much appreciated! Just to clarify, we did not produce the image in the middle ("Embodied carbon is happening now"), but we borrowed it from our friends at OneClickLCA, https://oneclicklca.com/en/resources/articles/embodied-carbon-vs-operational-carbon. Very sorry about that! Many thanks, Richard Nelson, Co-Founder, DWB
Living in Moscow in the late 1990s, I was amazed at how many of the buildings predated the 1917 revolution. Historical preservation, however, meant saving the facade and replacing everything else. Manhattan also has large numbers and even neighborhoods of century or more older buildings still in use. Meanwhile my Arlington County, Virginia neighborhood is replacing 75 year old brick ramblers with $1 to $2 million McMansions. We are seeing a few more vacant office buildings being proposed for conversion to residential purposes but that may involve significant interior demolition and end up as upper tier housing.
Any chance of opening a Canadian (Ontario) Chapter? The present provincial government is hell bent of eliminating as many Heritage protections, as fast as they can. Heritage protection is one way DWB can gets implemented.
Thanks @Lloyd Alter for bringing www.DontWasteBuildings.com to the attention of your audience. Your point about panels is valid and that is why we run case study tours. Seeing is believing and hearing from the people responsible for the finance as well as the technical execution has bought this campaign to life.
The roadways sector in the U.S. could/should learn from the “retrofit” (SBA or Stop Building Anew) philosophy and, that is, to adopt an FIF or Fix It First philosophy, most especially in urban settings. Adding pavement seems to only serve to encourage more driving rather than to relieve congestion, which, as I understand it, also goes by another name: Induced Demand or ID.