Further resources

Future Build explores a number of themes that I believe are important if we are to move towards a more regenerative built environment. These themes are listed below, alphabetically, with an overview of each and a list of places they feature within the book (all page numbers relate to the UK hardback published by Bloomsbury).

At the end of the book, I promised that this website would offer:

  • Instructions for re-reading Future Build in a different order,

  • More information about many of the projects and inventions featured in the book,

  • Resources and books that have influenced my broader thinking,

  • Related media, such as talks and podcasts.

I hope that this page helps with all of that.

Do more good

For decades, sustainability has focussed on doing ‘less harm’. In the construction industry, we talk about emitting less carbon, creating less waste, and using fewer resources. But none of this will repair the damage already done to this planet. Just as cleaning up after a disastrous party requires more than simply ‘making less mess’, our buildings and cities must move beyond damage limitation, and towards restoration, regeneration, and repair.

  • Introduced here: Chapter 9 is wholly given over to this idea, starting p247

  • Ideas in book:

    • House party analogy to explain ‘do more good’: p247

    • My diagram for doing more good: p250

    • Materials made from waste

    • CE as an entry point

    • Doughnut economics for determining what is ‘good’ (useful)

  • Further reading:

    • Regnerative structural engineer

    • Flourish

    • Webpage about The Arc

    • Webpage The Phoenix

    • Webpage Park Hill

    • Webpage Kendeda

    • MASS webpage RICA

Outcomes

(not outputs)

  • Introduction to this idea

  • Freya’s thing

  • Wastefulness tour

  • Are there any good website on DE and outcomes?

  • Further reading:

Reusing and upcycling

  • Circular economy

  • Key projects in book:

    • Waste House

    • Resource Rows

    • Reread chapter and list out here

Right material in the right place

  • Stone sagrada

  • Timber in buildings - e.g. enterprise

  • Straw House

  • PANDA?

Second sites

  • Introduced here:

    • see also systems thinking/place literacy

  • Examples in book:

  • Further reading:

    • Embodied biodiversity

    • ukgbc EEI

    • Regenerative structural engineer

    • HACE

    • Ej Atlas

Systems thinking

Michael Pawyln calls this the difference between regen (do more good) and sust (do less bad)

  • Flourish

  • Meadows

  • Regen Str Eng chapter X

  • place literacy?

Use less stuff

istructe heirarchy

meicon

Value for carbon

value exchangers text

what a place needs - place literacy

ust handprint

What is this building, and what could it become?

elliott wood circular handbook

dave cheshire

duncan b b book

steel reuse in bridges

exp webpage about 55BS

Your inner activist

Clara, Sin[e]ad and Phil, John French.