Designing out waste: Regenerative and natural materials in construction

Learn how designing and building with regenerative and natural building materials can help reduce the amount of construction waste being sent to landfill.

Hear from leading product suppliers and experts in natural materials. Discover how renewable, reusable, and easily recyclable resources can provide safe, sustainable alternatives to commonly used—and often wasteful—products. Natural building products are healthy and inspiring. They also give more than they take throughout their entire life cycle.

Every time we build, we have an impact on local ecosystems. This provides an extraordinary opportunity to protect and restore nature. By choosing where and how we build and committing to support and enhance ecosystems via our projects, we can shift construction from being part of the problem to part of the solution.

Speakers:

• Rachel MacIntyre, Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects

• Min Hall, Earth Building Association of New Zealand and Unitec School of Architecture - natural and earth materials expert

• Ben Eyers, Hiberna Modular - Passive House and prefabricated straw panels

• Alan Drayton, BioBuild – rammed earth building

• Stephen Moller, Limewave – natural plasters and the potential for clay plaster in retrofits

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