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Sunday, 13 May 2018

The green revolution in manufacturing

Kevin McCloud has been at the forefront - and visibly so - of 'green design':
Futures Forum: RIBA House of the Year shortlist > Cob Corner, Devon
Futures Forum: Building Cob Castles in East Devon... on Grand Designs
Futures Forum: Upcycling: 'Kevin's Supersized Salvage'

He's not a fan of the usual fare when it comes to designing housing:

Builders are using relaxed planning rules to construct “enormous slabs of thousands of boxlike” homes in towns and villages as though they were “dropped out of a C130 Hercules”, according to the presenter of the television programme Grand Designs. Kevin McCloud intervened as the Government prepares to publish the results of a national review of architecture and the built environment

Builders 'churning out same old boxes’, says Kevin McCloud - Telegraph 

Today is the last day of the 'Grand Designs Live' show in London:
Home - Grand Designs Live

And Kevin McCloud has strong opinions as ever - talking about the ‘green revolution’ in manufacturing: 



REDEFINING PLASTICS
McCloud reveals that we now have enough materials in the UK to create every product we could ever possibly need. Yet, currently, only nine per cent of plastics is recycled.


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