Is urban manufacturing bad for the environment? Or can it be green and play a role in the fight against climate change? We look at the current picture of production to see how sustainably...
Concrete. As a staple of construction, it’s everywhere in our cities. What happens when a building has served its purpose? Could we recover, recycle, and rebuild with construction and demolition waste material? Would that...
Is there a market for recycled concrete? This was such a sizeable question that the EU part-funded a multi-million-Euro project to find out. Leading SeRaMCo, Christian Glock set out to ascertain how construction and...
The importance of good waste management is no secret, but how to do it can sometimes allude us. This is where the city of Tampere comes in. So, if you’re lacking innovative ideas and...
Digitisation of the construction sector is an important step. It will simplify and streamline material reuse and carbon emission reduction. But this takes brains, cooperation between computing and construction, and a personal determination to...
Manufacturing in its many manifestations creates mountains of waste. This presents an opportunity. With the correct systems in place, waste becomes a resource and opens the door to innovative businesses, job creation, and economic...
Increasingly, cities have become aware of the fact that the current linear use of resources (taking raw materials from the environment, making products from them, and eventually throwing them away as waste) is no...
How can changing the way we store and preserve our food reduce waste in the interests of a more sustainable future? And what do cities have to do with it? We unpack these questions...
Waste not, want not – why not? Changing the way we manage food waste is an important step toward improving the global food system and making the cities we live in more sustainable. A...
What water is available to cities is unevenly distributed and increasingly stressed due to population growth. Human activity backed by poor policy safeguards increases volumes of wastewater, reduces that of potable quality, and triggers...
It’s about synergy of sectors – not competition – for sustainable use of given resources. We’re talking about the FWE nexus. Food, Water, and Energy “are highly interconnected: water is required for almost all...
From lack of planning to a shortage of resources or an absence of imagination when it comes to strategies, there are many reasons why responsible waste management falls through our fingertips. However, with the...
Since writing his thesis on “Recyclable Building in Residential Construction” over 20 years ago, Thomas Romm has only delved deeper into how we can reduce the environmental impact of construction and planning practices. Cue:...
Female Skills That Make a Good Leader
Interview with Jacqueline O’Donovan, Managing Director of O’Donovan Waste Disposal. Under her steer, the waste management business has gone from strength to strength and has 185 employees and a turnover of over...