BioRegional MiniMills UK Ltd

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RENEW AND WHY WASTE WORKSHOP ON CONSTRUCTION
WASTE REDUCTION AND REUSE MARCH 2009 Building
Material Reuse Centres a reuse opportunity
simply too good to waste (or recycle) Lewis
Herbert WasteWISE Consultants Ltd
lewis_at_wastewise.org.uk 0774 853 6153
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Plenty of buildings still suitable for
deconstruction and Pre-Demolition Audits
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providing steel and bricks for new buildings
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and reclaimed timber, plus timber from new
build

• Sourced from construction sites
• Or demolition jobs
• Or refurbishment
• Joists
• Reused as joists or
• Milled into floorboards

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Reusing what goes into construction skips (BRE
2008)
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Rapidly rising landfill and tax charges

• 2007/8 24/tonne tax - skip 1202008/9
  32/tonne tax - skip 160 2009/10 40/tonne
  tax - skip 190 ?2010/11 48/tonne tax - skip
  220 ?
• some skips are 500 of building materials !

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• Waste Skip Segregation and Colour CodingDo
  exactly what it says on the sign, mate
• How many skips now at most sites ?
• And how many
• are practical at
• most sites ?

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Maximising reuse as well as recovery

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Reuse environmental benefits way ahead of new
or recycled
Bar chart showing the 96 environmental impact
saving by reclaiming and reusing steel sections
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Construction timber should not just go into fuel
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Building Material Reuse Centres - A Business
Opportunity (BMRCs)

• Big in the USA
• Developing more UK projects
• West and South Yorkshire Opportunity(and survey
  underway)

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1. US Building Material Reuse Centres
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• http//www.re-store.org/ballard.htm

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Improving economics
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• Long-term plans to eliminate need for a tax break

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Madison Restore, Wisconsin

• http//www.restoredane.org/

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Learning from Madison Restore

• Self sufficient social enterprise, started in
  2000
• One of 8 Habitat Restores in Wisconsin state
• Re IY shop BQ second time around
• Deconstruction business
• Building projects including material reuse
• Training business
• More at www.restoredane.org including 3 minute
  video

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2. Developing viable UK projects

• Model Bioregional/WasteWISE business plan for
  Centre for Remanufacturing and Reuse 2008
  www.bioregional-reclaimed.com/get_report.php
• Tees Valley REBUILD project developing from
  2007
• 2008 Peterborough reusables research/projects
• Current Realliance ReIY 2008/9 project led by
  Bioregional - assisting projects in
  Yorkshire and across England
• www.re-alliance.org.uk and www.wrap.org.uk

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BioRegional/WasteWISE Project

• Assist 3 to 5 social enterprises develop Centres
• New partnerships including across regions
• Share reclaim expertise/develop core people
• Catchment market analysis, business
  plan/funding, sites, appropriate methods, links
  to East Ex etc
• Committed construction companies and housing
  associations those operating in several regions
• ReIY - because retail and DiY are core elements

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Diverting wastage and seconds at all stages in
construction supply chain, and meeting needs of
source companies

• Production eg. brickworks
• Building supplies/distribution
• DIY supply chains
• Construction companies linking to Site Waste
  Management Plans
• Decent Homes programmes
• Housing maintenance

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UK generic business plan

• Involved around 70 responses - construction
  supply chain, social enterprises, councils
  etc(now over 100)
• Business plan toolkit plus generic
  spreadsheetsand wider analysis
• Aid for essential local business analysis/plan
• other learning - SALVO businesses, wood
  projects

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FINANCIAL ANALYSIS IN BUSINESS PLAN TOOLKIT
Start up, year 2 and Year 5 financial
projections- income analysis, costs and surplus
- two stage developmentLearning from - US
experience and Madison Restore detailed data-
UK BMRC projections with local costs e.g. SEand
Middlesbrough key differences from USA- UK
comparators including architectural salvage
companies and community wood reuse projects
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Example of Rebuild on Teesside and partners

• Led by Community Campus, a building training
  social enterprise rebuild_at_cc87.co.uk working
  with
• Bioregional Quintain re Middlehaven
• Rok Construction Group
• Coast and Country (Redcars Registered Social
  Landlord) Erimus and other housing
  associations
• Redcar and Middlesbrough councils
  regeneration areas Household Waste Recycling
  Centres
• Renew CPI and others

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Conclusions/Key Issues

• Viable reuse businesses/social enterprises with
  wide diet
• Opportunities for companies, even in recession
  - Web opportunities linked to Why Waste
  materials exchange, matching companies and social
  enterprises, and regional
• Formal agreements with construction companies,
  providing quality service and Site Waste
  Management Plan reporting
• - Wider partnerships, including deconstruction,
  predemolition/material audits, training and
  material re-supply.

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Building Materials Recycling Centre Social
Enterprise Viewpoint
CORE BUSINESS Deconstruction/Soft
Demolition Architectural Salvage Building with
Recycled Materials Ebay-type Sales
CORE OUTPUTS Jobs Qualifications Work
Placements ILM
DEMOLITION Potential to increase soft strip
with that element by a social enterprise
FUNDED VIA Income Generated from Trading LSC
(Quals/e2e) Jobcentre Plus (DAF/ILM) Charitable
Foundation(s) Partners/Carbon Footprints Local
Authority Procurement Housing Association
Contracts Private Sector
WHERE? Growth Areas major new communities
Districts with signficant housingUrban
regeneration areas
OTHER ISSUES Decent Homes Standard Supplementary
Planning Guidance Housing Corporation Regional
Skills Action Plan/Shortages Statutory Legislation