Southern California Agencies Mount Massive Push for Water Reuse

Separate programs work collectively to reduce reliance on imported supply, including effort to manufacture water through innovative deep-ocean desalination.

OCL Regeneration to turn runway into homes

Holcim UK subsidiary OCL Regeneration is working to remove the runway at Ford Airfield in West Sussex and reuse it for surfaces and roads on a new Vistry housing development.

ENR’s MidAtlantic Design Firm of the Year, Remains Nimble

Diversified across architecture, planning, interiors and preservation, along with expertise in both new construction and adaptive reuse, Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Planners is the 2026 ENR MidAtlantic Design Firm of the Year.

ALTA Property gets green light for Melbourne tower renewal

Artist’s impression: ALTA Property’s adaptive re-use of 10 Queens Road, Melbourne. ( ALTA Property)ALTA Property has received planning approval for a $200 million adaptive re-use project at 10 Queens Road, Melbourne, transforming a … The post ALTA Property gets green light for Melbourne tower renewal appeared first on Inside Construction.

Punch List: Adaptive reuse and Safety Week in the Big Apple

Plus, the Empire State will invest $78 million across four infrastructure projects and other news builders should know about.

FT - Recycling the world’s hard drive waste, 13022023

Shredding hard drives may be a sure-fire way to prevent data leaks from discarded devices, but as the FT’s TMT correspondent Anna Gross reports, it can create significant amounts of waste and squander rare metals. Information can be deleted with wiping software, but why are companies reluctant to use it?

The B1M - Before and After: Buildings Reinvented, 27022019

In an effort to retain heritage, reduce waste and overcome the challenge of finding sites in urban areas, architects, engineers and developers are breathing new life into existing structures and the communities around them

Supply Chain Sustainability School - Retrofit - The Scale of the Opportunity, 24112022

A 2 hour video conference about Retrofit in the Heritage, Commercial and Domestic Housing sectors

RICS - Lowering embodied carbon – A whole life approach to decarbonisation, 08122021

Embodied carbon has traditionally been overlooked as a cause of emissions in the built environment. While an inefficient building can be renovated and improved to reduce future in-use emissions, the clock cannot be turned back on embodied carbon. What is required is a whole life approach to decarbonisation. How can this be best achieved and what are the challenges that need to be overcome?

RICS - Retrofitting for the future: Net zero for existing building stock, 29062022

In this RICS webinar, the panel discuss the challenges in retrofitting existing stock, how can these be overcome and the best way to reduce emissions and energy use

Can net zero carbon targets be helped by a change in tax such as VAT to zero for refurbishment and reuse and 20% on new build?

Has anyone had any experience trying to recover ppe for reuse?

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