Salvabuild.com - With Sustainability in mind.
- Use of innovative new long life products
- Creating an awareness of ecologically sustainable alternative sources of energy
- Promoting the salvage of redundant building materials for re-use
Salvabuild is the first site of its kind, which incorporates the latest sustainable building products in this rapidly expanding area of ecological research and development, and actively promotes salvaging through deconstruction.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to promote development "which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" (Our Common Future - The Brundtland Report) [1]
A Word From Us [Click to view]
Joe Gellert, RIBA
Managing Director
"I bring to Salvabuild over 30 years of experience in the Building Construction Industry, both as an Architect in Private Practise and also as a Construction Manager. I am passionately interested in Sustainable Architecture and in the restoration and revitalisation of existing buildings utilising technologically innovative and ecologically efficient solutions"
Craig Marcus, BSc (Hons) Computing
Lead Developer
"As a software developer and specialist in web-based technologies, I have incorporated many powerful features into this site - always with a view to making their use simple and intuitive for all."
Further Information [Click to view]
The Building Research Establishment publication "Sustainability in the Built Environment" alludes to the fact that "the high economic contribution of the construction industry and the built environment comes at high environmental cost with, for example, buildings accounting for around 45% of total greenhouse gas emissions, with the production of construction materials accounting for a further 10%" [2]
Salvabuild encourages local re-use and the adoption of energy efficient technologies.
Mark Key, editor of the Building Research Establishment digest "Sustainable Masonry Construction", states that "Massive databases currently exist for the sale of property and cars, so why not create an as-built database for future deconstruction?" [3]
Salvabuild can assist by bringing those with materials, and those who need them, into contact at the deconstruction stage.
References
- Our Common Future / The Brundtland Report, United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) ,
Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-282080-X. - Sustainability in the built environment: an introduction to its definition and measurement, C Atkinson, A Yates and M Wyatt (2009) ,
BRE Press, ISBN 978-1-84806-084-5. - Sustainable masonry construction, Mark Key (2009), BRE Press, ISBN 978-1-84806-107-1.