August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
128 pages
3h 28m
English
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07. Designing-out waste
A circular economy is not just about designing-out waste, it is fundamentally designing-out the concept of waste. This means that designers have to think about the whole life of the building from the decision to build new or refurbish through to the eventual demolition or deconstruction of an obsolete building.
Therefore, the idea of designing-out waste means avoiding creating waste in the first place, and looking for opportunities to turn waste from other places into ...