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“We’re committed to supplying custom-cut radiata pine lumber – producing and delivering exactly to your needs, eliminating waste.Your size, your grade, delivered just in time.”
ELIMINATING WASTE FOR INCREASED VALUE
“Sequal lumber is used in the manufacture of furniture, packaging and engineered wood products. Our commitment to custom cut reduces the need for reprocessing, eliminating waste and costs for our customers.We understand that getting product delivered on time is critical in supporting the benefits of our custom cut promise, so we are passionate about working together to ensure just-in-time delivery.”
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Primary research survey.
We created a survey based on information we thought relevant to our project and sent it out to a few of our mates who are builders to get some insight from them.
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X-Frame
X-Frame is a recoverable, reusable and re-deployable framing system for the next generation of sustainable construction.
Comprising of twelve standardised components, the X-Frame system has undergone four and a half thousand hours of design prototyping. The result is an inherently braced structural matrix formed from CNC milled engineered plywood components that can be assembled into structural panels without the need for nails, glues, or screws.
https://x-frame.org/?fbclid=IwAR0-F2Vz6zrt28e2Js7sXOqAlibF0rBtaBxvo1_ZexTfJTuRtCcrFUV6Sn4
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Waste reduction in construction guide developed by REBRI is part of a series created to encourage and assist everyone involved in the building industry to reduce waste.
The aim of the guide is to:
Assist developers, builders and all other trades and professions involved in construction to consider how and why waste is created during building projects.
Provide practical guidance on how to reduce waste to landfill and clean-fill by being efficient with materials during the project and by setting up good systems for recycling and reuse.
foster environmental awareness in the building profession.
The guide also suggests 10 top tips to follow in order to achieve waste reduction:
Plan to reduce waste at the start of a project – set goals, identify waste recycling opportunities and target specific wastes you expect from the project. Use the REBRI Waste Management Plan.
All staff and subcontractors need to follow the waste management systems. Include waste reduction instructions or standards in your contracts in your induction material and other communications with staff and subcontractors. Make it a regular item on toolbox and project management meetings.
Order just-in-time delivery of products to reduce the storage time on site (and the potential for damage). Have accurate cutting lists and quantity surveys to avoid overordering and product wastage.
Talk with suppliers about the latest methods for product installation and uses so that you can reduce off-cuts, mistakes and damage that all create waste during construction.
Keep waste materials separate for recycling and reuse. Store them in different skips, bins or piles, and use clear signage so that everyone knows what to do.
Set up a single waste storage area – many smaller bins over one site encourages people to use the nearest bin (and mix up the various waste types making it harder to recycle).
Different waste types occur at different times in the project so plan your waste separation system around this. Concrete, steel and timber waste occurs during foundations and framing; cladding, plasterboard, electrical cable and insulation waste occurs during the next phase; cardboard, plastic wrap, paint tins and other packaging waste occurs during fit-out.
Encourage reuse of off-cuts, scraps and so on. Keep them in a handy place until the end of the project.
Keep a current list of recycling operators in the site office for easy reference. Use the REBRI Waste Management Plan to list the specific recycling operator’s details for the project.
Have incentives such as morning tea shouts if waste reduction is achieved on the project.
The REBRI waste reduction guidelines have been developed to encourage and assist everyone involved in the construction and demolition industry to reduce waste. REBRI stands for Resource Efficiency in the Building and Related Industries and started in 1995 as a collaborative effort between Auckland councils and BRANZ to undertake research and raise awareness of the issues of waste and the efficient use of resources in C&D projects. A consortium of councils, BRANZ, Recycling Operators of New Zealand and the Ministry for the Environment, with assistance from Winstone Wallboards Limited and industry representatives, extended the initiative in 2003 to undertake more research and develop national waste reduction guidelines.
REBRI, Waste Reduction – CONSTRUCTION. BRANZ Ltd, March, 2014.
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Minimising Waste
Construction and demolition produce large amounts of waste.
Construction and demolition waste makes up 40–50 percent of New Zealand’s total waste going to landfill, according to government and council documents. Each home constructed generates an average of four tonnes of waste. An Auckland study found that construction waste by weight is made up of timber (20%), plasterboard (13%), packaging (5%), metal (5%) and other (45%).
Most of this dumping of construction waste is unnecessary – it has been demonstrated that simply by sorting waste, at least half of it could be diverted from landfills and clean-fills. Large volumes of waste also increase the costs of a project and its environmental impact.
Costs of construction wastes
Environmental costs from waste disposal include:
limited reuse of landfill sites due to potential health hazards
energy required in transportation
pollution to land, air and water from heavy metals and toxic chemicals
greenhouse gas emissions
unsustainable depletion of resources.
Economic costs from waste disposal include:
cost of operating and maintaining landfill sites
cost of transporting waste to landfills
loss of financial benefit from using recycled or salvaged materials.
Social costs from waste disposal include:
noise, dust and traffic pollution to the community
effects of hazardous or nuisance waste to workers on a building site and to the community.
The Waste Management Act 2008 was introduced to encourage waste minimisation and reduce waste disposal by applying a levy of $10 per tonne (excl. GST) on all waste sent to landfills. The levy aims to encourage people to think about how they dispose of materials, and provide an incentive to avoid waste as well as provide funding to help develop waste minimisation projects. More than $70 million has been spent on over 100 projects.
Some industry observers have said that the spending has had little impact on the volume of rubbish created or sent to landfills, however.
A report by Eunomia Consulting commissioned by a mix of councils and other bodies recommended extending the levy to different types of landfill, different rates for standard and inert waste, gradually lifting the rate and applying more monitoring and enforcement. Potential benefits would include a much larger proportion of waste recovered rather than going to landfill, and economic and employment benefits have been identified. There would be costs to implement the changes, but these would be lower than the economic benefits.
In November 2019 the government produced a consultation document Reducing waste: a more effective landfill levy. The document points out that while in other countries there is growing recovery and recycling of materials, in New Zealand, waste sent to landfills has been steadily increasing. It also says that significant quantities of waste from construction and demolition are not subject to a levy at the moment. There is a proposal for a levy of $20 per tonne for construction and demolition fills and for an increase of the existing levy at municipal landfills to $50 or $60 per tonne. The Ministry for the Environment estimates current levy-related waste disposal charges for construction and demolition waste of around $6.6 million each year. The levy-related cost of disposal under the proposed new levy could be between $68.9 and $75.55 million. Submissions to government can be made until 3 February 2020.
“Minimising Waste When Building.” Level. The Authority on Sustainable Building., www.level.org.nz/material-use/minimising-waste/.
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The Brief
Aim
This studio asks students to identify and investigate a contemporary social, environmental or economic issue. A proposal of systems and sustainability within design and social behaviour should be considered and created to propose how the identified situation might be changed.
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In this studio paper students will establish a critical position to develop an informed sustainable practice for issue-led design that encourages designers to consider the economic, social, moral and ethical consequences of their work.
Students will develop a research question (individually or in groups ) which focuses on the issues raised by human influence on ecology, culture and economy.
Students will contextualise their work in the context of sustainability through interconnected and co-evolving strategies of action, research/knowledge gathering and investigation.
This will involve concept exploration through both written (i.e. context/literature review) and creative responses (prototyping, testing refinement, resolution) which will work within the mind map/framework/ecosystem that the students have identified and articulated.
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