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 RICHARD HAMILTON, FATHER OF POP ART, DIES.
British artist, Richard Hamilton died on Tuesday morning aged 89. He was made famous in the 1950's for his paintings, collages, and sculptures.
Hamilton's 1956 collage 'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?' featured a body builder holding a lollipop with the word 'pop' on it. This artwork was heralded as the first piece of 'pop art'.
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 9/11 WRECKAGE SCULPTURE UNVEILED
A new 28ft high sculpture has been unveiled at Battersea Park in London. The sculpture uses scrap metal from the site of the September 11th attacks. New York artist Miya Ando was commissioned by 911 London Project to build the sculpture to mark the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Centre tragedy.
Hundreds of requests from Britain were made for remnants of the disaster, but only two were granted. A fire commissioner told journalists that the art work brought back painful memories. "We couldn't move them, no matter how many men pulled them, we couldn't move them. So I see a lot of pain when I look at [the sculpture]. I see men that were crushed by [the girders] and a beautiful building that came down around thousands of wonderful, innocent people."
The siting in Battersea Park is only temporary. The sculpture was originally going to be placed outside London's City Hall, but a less prominent home will need to be found following complaints from victims families.
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 ARCHITECTURAL SLOW, GARDEN FAIR, RECLAIMED MATERIALS GOOD AT COX'S SALE
Despite an unexpected main road closure and the auctioneer suffering a wasp sting in the mouth ten minutes before the off, Cox's Relocation Sale went ahead on September 10th.
Glen Snelgar and the Wellers Auction's crew achieved an eighty four percent sold rate in a marathon non stop nine hour sale at the well known North Cotswold reclamation
yard.
Prices were generally on the low side and demand for items such as cast iron roll top baths, chimney canopies, cast iron and wooden fire surrounds and routine sanitaryware were distinctly lacklustre. Conversely garden stoneware, ornaments, troughs and flag stones sold well at middle range prices. Floorboards were strong with batches of antique oak and reclaimed pine fetching near retail levels.
Many well known faces from the trade were to be seen bidding as well as socialising over bacon sandwiches and coffee in the blustery sunshine.
M.D. Peter Watson commented " We achieved the financial target I wanted albeit by a round about route. The larger ticket items did not sell and this perhaps illustrates the state of the market at present. But I'm well pleased. The object was to clear sufficient stock to allow us to vacate our largest warehouse when the lease expires end of November and this we have done."
"Wellers addition of internet bidding widened the market place considerably and was fascinating to watch. On some lots they had bids from the room, on commission, on the phone and live on the internet. My compliments to them on a very proffessional job well done."
Wellers stay in the Cotswolds for the Masco retirement auction on September 24th . "I'll be there" said Watson "but I think I'll keep my hands in my pockets!"
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 RECLAIMED BUILDING MATERIAL BUILDER WANTED FOR NEW TV SERIES
Mentorn media, an independent TV production company, which makes Question Time, is
looking into two different but overlapping trends in the building world for a new TV project: adaptive reuse of buildings from commercial to residential, for example, or using shipping containers for homes and offices; and building using reclaimed materials.
Matthew Clifton of Mentorn writes, 'We are not just interested in the environmental angle, but also the ingenuity and economic value of reusing what is already there. Our show would inspire people to save money, get stuck in and create something more unique and aspirational at the same time. We are keen to track down top practitioners of reclamation building, as potential new onscreen talent. This could be a professional builder who works using reclaimed materials, someone who sources it as a profession or a talented amateur who has successfully done their own home up with reclaimed goods - the main thing at this stage would be knowledge, passion and enthusiasm.'
If you think you might fit the bill or know someone who does, please email Matt at mclifton@ mentorn.tv or phone him on 020 7258 6767.
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 DICK WHITTINGTON'S HOUSE FOR SALE ON EBAY
Reclaimed beams allegedly from the now collapsed structure that was allegedly Dick Whittington's house are for sale on eBay by Hrafnbu at bid over £99. The oak or elm beams came from a frame in Eldersfield near Gloucester occupied in the 14th century by the well-known figure, who famously went to London and become lord mayor four times.
Hrafbnu wrote: 'You have the components of an extremely ancient building with a unique historical story. Whether you rebuild it in the gardens of your house or it joins a tourist attraction, it's certainly something special and will undoubtedly never be available for sale again.
'Selection of cruck timbers and various other timbers rescued from a collapsed barn. There are 3 pairs of matching crucks and several parts of one. The main timbers measure approx 6.6m, 6.3m, 6.4m, 6.2m, 5.8m, 6.3m and 4.1m in length measured at the furthest points. Various cross sections from 300mm by 180mm, 340mm by 170mm, 260mm by 220mm. Also included is around 2 tones of various beams and bits ranging from 0.5m to 3.0m in length. Some are in poor shape. All from the same barn. Some interesting joints and carpenters marks. Including dovetail joints and tennon joints. The cruck barn comes from the Rue Green area of Eldersfield where the Whittington land was located.'
The eBay auction runs for five days.
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 TWO MAJOR SALVAGE AUCTIONS COMING UP IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Two major architectural salvage auctions are scheduled in September in Gloucestershire both held by Wellers, one for Cox's Yard and the other is MascoWalcot.
Tomorrow sees the relocation sale of Cox's Yard in Moreton-in-Marsh with over 1,000 lots of architectural salvage and reclaimed building material including antique fireplaces, pub fittings and tables, doors, iron gates, sanitaryware, and reclaimed beams, tiles and flagstones. Somewhat inconveniently there is resurfacing work going on which has meant that diversion signs have been set up. 'Follow Diversions and look for Cox's Yard Sign' is the confident message from Cox's. The sale starts at 10am, and online bidding is available. 'Lots to suit the Trade and the Private Buyer' states the sale web pages. The catalogue is linked below.
On Saturday 24th September the retirement sale of MascoWalcot will take place at Aston Down outside Stroud with another 1,000 or more lots to include some spectacular pieces, architectural features, garden ornaments, traditional building materials, original fireplaces, interior features, bathrooms and radiators, new and reclaimed flooring, new and reclaimed doors, door knobs and hardware. Olliffs of Bristol is also consigning stock to this sale. Masco's twitter feed at @MASCoWALCOT is highly active and will keep anyone interested in the sale informed about the latest developments, and the full catalogue will be available from 12th September.
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 ARCHITECTURAL FORUM SEEK AN INTERN
Islington's premier salvage resource, Architectural Forum, is offering a six month internship to suitable candidates who want to gain experience in the world of architectural antiques.
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Architectural Forum has an exciting opportunity for an intern for a six month placement at its Islington shop. Candidates must have a knowledge and interest in building, design, garden, architecture, or art history. Literacy is paramount. Experience is likely to include the following: marketing, stock inventory, customer relations, photography, internet, history, research, environment, sustainability, and health & safety. Please send CVs in confidence to Nadine Davies at 'info at thearchitecturalfourm dot com'.
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 BUYER'S MARKET AT GAZE, BUT RIVETED WATER TANKS NOT WHAT THEY SEEM
"It was a disappointing architectural sale last Saturday," Carl Willows of T W Gaze said, "with a sold rate of 71 per cent against our normal 80 per cent or more, and some of the sales we did make were a little below par. For example, a very nice oak plank door made £600 which on a good day would have been nearer £1,000, and we had some super York flags which sold for middling prices. It was a bright sunny day but Gaze's buyers seem more buoyant in wet weather, and things might have been affected by a 'back to school' as some regulars stayed away."
Unsurprisingly in these gritty economic times it was a buyer's market at Gaze. The trade was selling more than buying, and holding out for reasonable to high reserves, while lots bought by private customers were at no or low reserves.
Two arctic loads of lots were bought by two of the UK trade in the run up to Battersea and other London fairs, but only partly because prices were depressed. More than one dealer told Mr. Willows after the sale that if they had known prices were going to be that low they would have come to buy rather than sell.
Galvanised rivetted water tanks struggled, which Carl Willows thought may have been because the steampunkers had accumulated too much stock and their sales had slowed. But Guy Trench of Antiques By Design, an inventive market leader in this field, said that far from being in the doldrums his sales and order books were relatively solid. He had bought three of Gaze's galvanised tanks to put into stock. He said that there seems to have been a shift towards more industrial tables (yes, it is possible to get more industrial than a cutaway water tank table), and at the recent Burghley horse trials, shotgun lighting - wall lights, standard lamps, table lamps - proved a big hit.
Gaze's rural and domestic bygones sale on 5 October will have part of a gentleman's collection of shepherding effects including some rarer pieces such as a sheep fair enamelled sign, a shepherd's umbrella, early sheep bells, horn lanterns and crooks. Modern design will be on 15 October and the next architectural will be on 5 November, when fireworks are expected, but Mr. Willows will be hoping for a damp squib!
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 SALVAGE TALES FROM A NATURE YARD: THE WOULD-BE DENTIST
Salvage Tales from a Nature Yard
The Would-be Dentist
My father Cliff and my mother Sheila - known to her brothers and sisters, close friends and my dad as Shootie - commenced trading as Yapton Metal Co in August 1951, four months before I was born. They started the business without planning permission on the then five acre site here in Yapton on the Sussex Coast. Two years later 'temporary' planning permission was granted for three years and it was from this date that Cliff reckoned they had 'officially' begun trading. He had to keep renewing planning permission every three to five years depending on how the council felt until 1992 when permanent planning permission for a licenced scrap metal yard was granted along with 'light industrial use'.
From the very beginning it was an unconventional sort of place. Cliff was an unconventional sort of scrap metal merchant with his well-educated and somewhat bohemian upbringing and attendant attitudes combined with a strong degree of liberality and quite astounding tolerance towards his fellow man. My mother's exotic beauty, often bizarre sense of humour and rather other-worldly views and takes on life contributed to the strange beguilement of the place. People flocked to it.
Besides scrap metal - which his father, my grandfather, Theo, had also dealt in in London, Cliff called himself a 'general dealer': in other words he bought and sold almost anything! This was for myself, a boy growing up in the 50s and 60s, a highly interesting environment.
One day on my return from school I discovered in the yard the entire contents of a dentist's surgery. There in front of my eyes to the left of the yard office was the dentist's chair. It was cream with a black seat and there was the pedal you pumped it up with. There was the whitish-china-round thing you spat into with it's little bit to hold the glass that held the pinky-coloured water you sloshed into your mouth and spat out again - the glass was missing though. There was the huge light, a metal cabinet and yes a few tools inside, a gas bottle fixed to a mask. I almost fainted with excitement immediately visualising myself gassing all my friends and mending their teeth. Then there was the drill tall and angled like a delicate, chrome-covered industrial crane just waiting for me to use. And there were other strange bits that I could not quite determine what they were but looked 'useful' and I half guessed might be used in 'fillings'.
On Saturday I met my friend Nick early and told him what was at the yard and what we were going to do! We were going to be dentists and I promised him he could "do an acloosal". He, like me was enraptured with the gas canister and mask but we could not work out how to turn the gas on. We pumped each other up in the chair surprised at how high it could actually go.
I painted a large sign with red paint that said 'Teeth mended come in the yard' on it. The paint was a bit drippy but you could read what it said ok. I put it outside the yard by the road so everyone could see it and Nick and I waited for our patients to come in. While waiting I had found a pair of pliers and was trying to turn on the gas while Nick wore the mask waiting to inhale. No one intervened to stop us. After about half an hour we grew tired of waiting and decided we would go out to find some patients.
Down on the rec we found Eric Simm and his younger friend Philip Phelps they were both about 8. I persuaded them that we had a wonderful dentist chair and gas and would they like to come back so we could mend their teeth and they could 'mend' ours too. They were stupid little boys - everyone knew that - but they had their uses when no-one else was about and agreed. On the way back to the yard though, through 'The Jungle', Eric changed his mind and managed to escape but we got Philip back ok.
We put him in the chair and pumped it up to it's maximum height. It was so high Nick and I had to stand on boxes to look into Philip's mouth. We were both equipped with rusty probes and I had a mirror. We had cherryade in a cup I got from my house which is adjacent to the yard and which I put by the thing you spit in.
We were so eager to be proper dentists and mend Philip's teeth that we simultaneously jabbed Philip Phelps' gums and he shrieked. I was horrified by his noise. I realised that the only way to help him was to gas him quick so Nick pushed the mask onto his face, holding it on forcibly while he struggled to get off the chair and I fumbled with the pliers desperately trying to get the gas flowing.
My father intervened at that point. He released Philip Phelps who ran off crying while Nick and I red faced and puffing with our exertions were told to go off somewhere else and play. He was not angry. He rarely was but he was insistent we leave the dentistry equipment alone. When I returned from school on Monday afternoon no trace of the dentist's surgery remained. Presumably it was scrapped. Maybe someone bought it. I discovered later you can sell almost anything and my father of course had long known that. It was though the end of my career as a 'dentist' and peculiarly enough I have never desired to be one again.
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 TELL THE GOVERNMENT WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT RED TAPE
Businesses are invited to contribute ideas on how the Government can cut red tape and regulatory burdens without affecting its responsibilities to protect the environment. For a few weeks the Red Tape Challenge (RTC) will be focusing on the 287 environmental regulations that apply to business. The RTC asks whether existing regulations should be retained, scrapped, simplified, or better achieved through an alternative non-regulatory way.
The Cabinet Office stated that simplifying regulations and removing burdens would benefit the economy by saving businesses millions in unnecessary costs.
Environment Minister Jim Paice said:
"This is not about reducing our standards. Regulation has an important role to play in protecting the environment and our natural resources, but some of the rules we ask businesses to follow are either too complicated, ineffective or just obsolete. The Red Tape Challenge is a chance to tell us how we can protect the environment in a more effective and simpler way that puts fewer burdens on businesses.
"There are also other ways of providing environmental protection that don't require regulation, which is why we want to hear ideas for doing things differently without affecting our responsibilities to the natural world."
Energy and Climate Change minister, Charles Hendry said:
"Avoiding dangerous climate change is crucial to our long-term economic success and quality of life and there is no intention to draw back from our climate change commitments. Quite the opposite, if we are going to tackle climate change we must work with industry to reduce our emissions. It is vital that we make sure our regulations are supporting that effort, not undermining it with red-tape that is ineffective, burdensome or unnecessary."
Business Minister Mark Prisk said:
"This Government is determined to reduce the burdens that businesses face every day, and these include those relating to things like waste and emissions and other environmental issues.
"Firms are best placed to understand the effect these regulations can have on the day to day running of a business and I hope they can give us an honest and frank appraisal of where improvements can be made, without compromising the protection that the regulations were designed to provide.
"The Red Tape Challenge has already been used to highlight a number of ways in which compliance problems are getting in the way of businesses, and we want to hear the different views on which environmental regulations can be simplified, improved or scrapped."
Robert Hunt, executive director at Veolia Environmental Services, is the sector champion for the environment theme.
Examples of environmental regulations that are already being simplified or scrapped include:
Reporting grey squirrel sightings - The Grey Squirrels (Prohibition of Importation and Keeping) Order 1937, part of the Destructive Imported Animals Act 1932, makes it a criminal offence for a land owner not to notify Defra of the presence of grey squirrels. The regulation is clearly out-dated and is being scrapped under the Repeals Bill.
Environmental permits - The number of permits businesses require for things such as waste, pollution control and groundwater use have been rationalised so that a site needs only to apply for a single permit. By cutting red tape and admin costs the move will save businesses £121m over 10 years and make it easier for regulators to enforce environmental protection at the sites.
Contaminated land guidance - Statutory guidance exists that is supposed to explain to when land contaminated by past industrial activity needs to be remediated. However, the guidance is overly complicated which means businesses and developers face expensive clean-ups that create a burden for the housing industry, put extra costs on homebuyers and fail to achieve the intended environmental benefit. We plan to simplify the guidance to clarify when remediation is needed and how to ensure land is decontaminated to a high standard.
Some examples of the areas we are inviting ideas on for simplifying regulation or alternative ways of achieving the same, or better, environmental outcomes are:
How businesses could work together on voluntary labeling systems to help consumers to make comparisons between products, such as on energy consumption.
Whether regulations could be combined to reduce the burden on local authorities and businesses, such as the Air Quality Regulations 2002 and Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010.
Further ways of simplifying regulations, such as the recent removal of requirements on packaging waste reprocessors to produce an independent audit report which saved £300,000 per year in costs.
Ways of improving the transparency of environmental data without the need for regulation.
None of the 97 (at today's date) suggestions are about reclaimed building material or their reuse. The nearest to reuse of reclaimed material are a comments about SWMP's:
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Andy H said on May 10, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Unlike most of the general rants on this site I am providing specific responses!!!!
The Site Waste Management Plans Regulations 2008 - Aimed at reducing fly tipping and encouraging businesses to plan waste requirements these regulations are a massive bureaucratic burden on construction companies. Setting the threshold at which they apply at £300k+ means that the people who are fly tipping waste are completely unaffected! Large construction projects already plan their waste requirements in advance; we operate independently audited environmental management systems and are already required by law to manage waste responsibly and legally. As the waste regs 2011 have now come into force we must also now implement the waste hierarchy by law! The SWMP regs force companies to have a rough guess (forecast) at which wastes will be produced, decide who will carry them and confirm they are legally allowed to (already covered in duty of care), review the wastes regularly and document every single movement of waste (for which waste transfer notes should already be doing this!), the responsibility for this pins environmental professionals to their desks for several days preventing them from attending sites to educate and monitor compliance! I can honestly say they do not bring about any benefits for business or the environment - in fact the amount of paperwork required creates more waste than they save! Revoke these pointless regulations and concentrate on enforcing existing waste legislation or target the man in a van builder or waste removal firms carrying and dumping waste illegally!
Hywel W said on May 12, 2011 at 12:38 pm
SWMP are a 'massive' burden?!?! I think not! The whole point of them is to stop the 'man in a van and waste removal firms carrying and dumping waste illegally.' SWMPs place a duty of contractors and construction firms to have a duty of care for the waste generated on site at the planning stage and not as an after thought. I don't know what dream land you work in, but contractors very, very rarely plan what will happen to waste arisings. It is so often an after thought. If contractors do indeed encorporate waste management in the planning stage, it is a "rent a skip' attitude where all waste streams all co-mingled. This is a dated approach and regulation is required to stop the comingled disposal of valuable resources or materials banned from landfill. Furthermore these regulations prohibits the unlawful disposal of waste by unpermitted facilities, which do not only damage the environment, but damage the viability of legal and permitted companies!
Until contractors can be trusted and self regulation becomes the norm, these regs are vital!
Get a grip, this is not 1960!
Andy H said on May 13, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Hywel - Man in a van companies are not covered by SWMP regs as the threshold is set at £300,000+. If you read my point above you would see that I advocate actual enforcement of waste legislation. SWMPs do NOT prevent waste removal firms carrying waste illegally! EA spot checks, fly tipping crackdowns, and shutting down illegal waste sites would! The only construction sites I have seen with co-mingled rent a single skip approaches are small scale refurb or new build sites which fall outside the financial scope of the SWMP regs. ISO14001 requires companies to implement a waste procedure and ensure legal handling and disposal of wastes. Smaller companies and sites are much less likely to operate an independently audited EMS. If a company cannot be bothered to arrange for proper segregation and legal disposal of waste what makes you think the they would bother to spend hours planning and documenting their waste requirements because a new piece of legislation says they should! Now who is living in dreamland!? The only people currently writing SWMPs are the ones who already ensure their waste is handled and disposed of responsibly! The law requiring the waste sites to operate under a permit and contractors to have a duty of care when selecting disposal sites is covered by other environmental legislation. The SWMP regs contribute nothing to the issue of illegal storage, handling and disposal. Better enforcement of existing legislation is required and the SWMPs should be revoked.
Julian Carter said on August 16, 2011 at 8:17 am
Site Waste Management Plans have been in place as a requirement for projects over £300k since 2008, but the majority of the industry does not comply with it. The reason is simple - there is little demandfrom clients for their projects to have one (even though they are equally as liable for non compliancein not having one at the start of a project) and the fact that the legislationhas not make clear who is responsible for enforcing it, resulting in the enforcing bodies (Authorities, councils and the EA) saying that it is the responsibility for someone else to enforce. From the construction industry's perspective, this lack of demand from clients andenforcing bodies has meant that in the majority there is not one in place. And this is a missed opportunity.
The legislation is simple to understand and actually has a section that asks for the financial savings made. This is important because it shows to companies what difference it makes to the bottom line. SECBE has done alot of work with Authorities and the construction industry and the feedback that we getis that by actually producing a SWMPcompanies are making a difference to their bottom line. A SWMP is a tool to be used in conjunction with designing out waste or improving logistics for example all of which can contribute to an improved project bottom line. Forget about the environmental improvement of lest waste to landfill or fewer raw materials being used, but those companies, big and small or do it report a bottom line improvement. this is thebit, particularlyfor SMEs that get their interest, even the most cynicalof managers, when you can show them the difference it could make.
Improvement to the legislation should be done by making it a duty rather than a power and providing funding to help authorities be shown HOW to enforce it without increasing workload. The tangible and intangible benefits will outstip an funding by at least 2 fold based onwork and feedback that SECBE has seen.
Andy H said on September 6, 2011 at 8:36 am
I'm afraid your comment about confusion regarding the responsibility for enforcing the legislation is unfounded - the EA and local authorities all have the power to enforce (section 3.2 of DEFRA guidance doc, 2008). This is clear and these authorities already understand this. The fact is that it is a complete waste of enforcement body time to go around checking whether masses of paperwork have been produced - with a random guess at how much waste will be produced and where this will go - for no real benefit to the environment. The legal requirements to plan waste provisions (i.e. document through waste transfer notes), check the permits and licenses for carriers and waste sites and dispose or treat waste responsibly already exist in other legislation.
As I have stated in a post earlier on in this consultation process the SWMP regs were introduced with the aim of reducing fly tipping and encouraging businesses to plan waste requirements yet the threshold at which they apply is set at £300k+. This means that the people who are fly tipping waste are completely unaffected! Large projects are primarily run by companies and clients with externally audited Environmental Management Systems, the legal requirements and non-legal drivers to ensure waste is reduced and treated / disposed of correctly are already in place. The amount of time spent trying to comply and keep the masses of paperwork up to date by construction companies, coupled with the impossible task of trying to monitor and enforce by authorities means that huge amounts of time and money are being wasted across the sector (from both a contractor and enforcing authority perspective). The fact is that the EA have got more important issues to look at, and the councils spend all their time clearing up the fly tipped waste which is being dumped on our roadsides by those outside the scope of the legislation and "man in a van" waste removal companies.
The EA, WRAP, NetRegs and local authorities along with groups such as the SECBE must have spent tens of millions of pounds in producing guidance documents and trying to promote awareness of these regs, yet as you say many companies still do not comply. This is because the amount of time and paperwork involved outweighs the benefits and those with the knowledge of good practice and legal requirements end up stuck behind a desk instead of being out on site helping to reduce waste and raise awareness on the front line! People aren't stupid! They know that waste is expensive - landfill tax increases (over 1000%) and increased materials costs are a large enough driver to get "cynical managers" to ask "why are we spending so much on waste?" "who damaged those materials through poor storage?"… the industry doesn't need legislation to understand these issues!
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 GAZE FORTHCOMING ARCHITECTURAL SALE
The architectural salvage and statuary sale to be held at T W Gaze of Diss this Saturday includes over 1,000 lots of garden ornament, garden sculpture, fireplaces, stained glass, floor tiles, York stone flagstones, tiles and pamments.
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 SIX MONTH WEBSITE SPONSOR SOUGHT BY PERIOD LIVING
Period Living magazine is looking for a six month architectural salvage sector sponsor for periodliving co uk. The sponsor would benefit from opt-in subscribers' data which, according to PL's Samantha Eagle, is brilliant for lead generation and data capture. Site sponsors will also have a 120px by 120px banner on every page on the website.
Approximately a thousand opt-in clients' email addresses are sent each month who, because they have all opted to receive offers, can be directly mailed by the sponsor. The total cost for six months is £1995.
Tracking for performance can be done by Period Living or by a third party. PL will also help create the sponsor's ad.
PL's monthly website metrics:
Visitors 36,044
Total pages viewed 131,764
Average pages per visit 4
Average time on the site 3mins
Returning visitors 52%
(Source: Google Analytics. Based on August 2010 figures)
Period Living magazine's monthly metrics
ABC: 44,266 (Jan-Dec 2010)
Readership: 168,000 (NRS Q2 2010), 85% ABC1 95% Female 5% male
Average age: 45-54
Advertisement response: 62% of readers have responded to an advertisement in Period Living
Currently doing a project: 85%
Planned budget: 55% Up to £10,000 18% £10,001 - £30,000 7% £30,001 - £50,000 4% £50,001 - £75,000 5% £75,001 - £100,000 3% £100,001 +
(Source: NRS Q2 2010 and Period Living Readership Survey)
42% live in properties valued between £250,000 - £500,000
Nearly a quarter live in properties between £500,000 and £1million
40% have a household income in excess of £45K pa
Over a quarter have a household income in excess of £60K pa
37% are planning a small or large scale renovation in the next 12 months
One in four readers are planning to install a new kitchen
One in three are planning to install a new bathroom
45% are planning on updating interior décor
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 RECRAFTED GARDEN PAVILION LAUNCHED BY WISH LIST ANTIQUES
Midlands salvage dealer Wish List Antiques has announced the launch of a range of bespoke garden structures including bridges, gazebo, arbors and verandas, and a pavilion using antique columns and reclaimed fish-scale slates.
The pavilion, which is set to retail at £16,950, includes columns from a late nineteenth century Welsh chapel and slates reclaimed from a Derbyshire manor house. It is 18ft diameter and 13ft high. Wish List offers an installation service, and can top the pavilion out with an antique weathervane or finial, and will also board the ceiling with reclaimed wood.
The carbon footprint of this pavilion is not known, but it is bound to be one of the greenest garden structures available to the discerning larger homeowner.
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SPELLER METCALFE AWARD PROJECT INCLUDED REUSE OF RECLAIMED BRICKS
Malvern building contractors, Speller Metcalfe, won the development team prize in the South Worcestershire Building Excellence Awards, for the redevelopment of a badly fire-damaged listed Victorian boarding house and adjacent boarding block while the school remained in use.
The building's features needed to be restored to their original condition and an important part of the project was the reuse of reclaimed bricks as well as stone and plasterwork restoration.
Reza Saneie, head of South Worcestershire Building Control Partnership, was reported to say: "Building standards and regulations have a big impact on the built environment, our homes, places of work, schools and hospitals. Not only will awards like this encourage future standards to be high but they will inject a feel good factor within the local construction industry."
This was the first year for the South Worcestershire Building Excellence Awards which included points for sustainability.
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 FAKE ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
I recently wrote an article for the Art Newspaper on what appears to be an industry of sculpture-faking which has emerged as a result of the Art in Public Places scheme in California.
Many of the works in question - - unauthorised copies (see photo) by Chinese craftsmen of an original 1992 work by the Californian sculptors Don Wakefield and Chick Glickman - - are situated in the grounds of the Olen Property Corporation's buildings in Newport Beach and Brea, California and have benefited from the Art in Public Places policy used in many US cities. This is how the Public Art scheme works:
Under the current Art in Public Places Policy, developments with a total building valuation of $1.5m or more are required to integrate publicly visible sculptures into their development projects. The artwork is regarded as an on-site amenity, a fixed asset on the property.
Developers are responsible for selecting an artist, commissioning the artwork, and maintaining the artwork. Each developer submits their proposed artwork for review by the Art in Public Places Advisory Committee, which reviews the artwork application based upon policy-defined criteria, such as the artist's qualifications and the durability of materials. The developer is required to put one per cent of the total development budget towards the art.
The Olen Corporation is owned by the Florida-based billionaire property developer and convicted tax felon Igor Olenicoff who has real estate holdings in California, Arizona and Florida. He acquired the 'fake' sculptures in China during the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and subsequently instructed the craftsmen there to adapt one of them from Wakefield's original design (see photo which shows Don Wakefield making the original work date-marked 18 June 1992). The copies are now distributed around Olenicoff's corporate properties in Newport Beach and surrounding areas, including the City of Brea.
In the first instance, if these works are indeed unauthorised copies - - and all the available evidence seems to suggest that they are - - and if a craftsman (Chinese or otherwise) has been prepared to adapt the work of another artist without that artist's consent, this would likely constitute a breach of copyright under the Fair Use application. This would represent a breach of Mr Wakefield's moral rights as an artist which would have serious legal implications.
More importantly, the City of Brea seems to be failing to collect the comprehensive information on the artist, which is required under the regulations of the Art in Public Places scheme. Olenicoff has also declined to reveal the identity of the Chinese craftsmen. If the City of Brea is failing to collect the necessary information from the developer, it is, by default, encouraging the abuse of the scheme, in this case by allowing developers to use Chinese craftsmen to copy works at a fraction of the cost of the original. Whether this is a way for corporate developers to save money remains unclear, but it is in everyone's interest to ensure that the rights of artists are not abused by corporations.
I approached a Beijing-based stone-carving company and requested an estimate to make a single copy of Don Wakefield's 1992 sculpture based on a photograph. I was quoted $1,250, with the price dropping to $950 per unit for three. According to Wakefield, to make an original, unique work today of the kind he and Glickman made in 1992 would cost around $35,000. As they say in the States, do the math.
There is also the critical issue of how many other works might have been copied from original sculptures by other artists without their original creator's consent. The City of Brea appears to be turning a blind eye to this by not demanding comprehensive biographical information about the artists whose work is used in the Art In Public Places scheme. I have requested clarification of this from the City of Brea and from the Public Art authorities in Newport Beach, but have received no response.
We need to know the exact source of the sculptures acquired by Olen Corp. and the identity of the craftsman from whom Olenicoff commissioned the copied and adapted works. It would also be interesting to know how many other sculptures from the Chinese source have been used by Olen Corporation in Newport Beach and Brea. All this information ought to be on file under the Art in Public Places scheme.
Tom Flynn is a writer and journalist on sculpture, the art market, museums and cultural property.
This article was republished from the Art Knows blog, 12 August 11, with permission from the author.
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 'BANDITS' RECLAIM BRICKS DURING GOVERNMENT DEMOLITION OF 500 HOUSES IN BELFAST
The demolition of terraces of Victorian houses by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE), part of the UK government, in the Village area of south Belfast led to scavengers trying to reclaim the bricks. The NIHE neither wanted the bricks, nor did they want them reclaimed.
Today, reclaimed Belfast bricks were being offered on Gumtree at £150 a pallet of 500 (30p each), and were also selling for €320 per 1000 (28p each) at Landmark Architectural Salvage in Newcastle, Co Dublin. The BBC wrote that 'a lucrative trade has grown up around reclaimed Belfast bricks which can retail for between 50p to £1 each.' Clearly there was demand for the bricks.
BBC News NI wrote:
'The NI Housing Executive has appealed to people to stop dismantling houses to steal bricks which are being sold on as salvage. The appeal came as it emerged that so-called brick bandits are stripping a Housing Executive demolition site in the Village area of south Belfast. The Housing Executive has warned people's lives are being put at risk. Gangs of people were sifting through piles of rubble to reclaim the bricks which were then sold on to dealers for around £100 a pallet. The Housing Executive said those involved have also targeted houses which are not yet due for demolition - regardless of whether adjacent homes are still being lived in. The houses were being left in a dangerous condition. The Housing Executive called for a stop to the "wanton vandalism".'
An Ulster dealer, who did not wish to be named, saw the video on Ulster TV (see link below) and said he thought it was the NIHE who were being the wanton vandals by not reclaiming the bricks.
On 9 June 2011, the BBC wrote that 'forty homes in Lower Rockview Street were knocked down on' on a single day which, if true, would mean that the NIHE seemed to be complicit in breaking the law as preparing for reuse, or reclaiming as it is more commonly known, is a legal requirement under the Waste Regulations 2011.
In this case the BBC reporter seems to have avoided joining the fact that the bricks were valuable with the fact that the NIHE was discouraging their reclamation, even though this is a legal obligation.
The minister for Social Development, Nelson McCausland, was photographed at the controls of demolition machine. He said that 500 houses would be demolished, but made no comment about reclaiming and reusing any of the demolition material.
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 LANCASHIRE SETTS ARE SAVED DUE TO RECESSION, BUT DRYSTONE WALLING IS STOLEN
Plans to transform Great Harwood's town square by removing its antique setts were axed in August under the revised Pennine Reach Scheme that will see spending on the town centre reduced from £814,000 to £275,000. The revision has meant that repaving with a 'modern non-slip' surface around the clocktower is gone, which should please community campaigners who had opposed the removal of Towngate's historic cobbles. Great Harwood councillor Lynne Wilson said: "The historic look of the square is the unique selling point of Great Harwood, so I was never in favour of modernising it."
Meanwhile, twenty miles to the north, three men from Morecombe out stealing drystone walling at the Trough of Bowland were caught redhanded. Blackburn magistrates heard in July that the men had dismantled a large section of a dry stone wall and were stopped by a police patrol in the early hours of the morning because the back of their van was low on its suspension. The driver told the officer there were just 'bits and pieces' in the back but when he opened the doors lumps of the stone fell out onto the road.
Christopher Andrew Buck, 25, of Marine Road West, Ryan Howard, 23, of Low Road, and Robert Macintyre, 25, of Heysham Road, all Morecambe, pleaded guilty to theft of a dry-stone wall belonging to Karen Parker. They were all made subject to an electronically monitored curfew between 9 pm and 7 am for three months and ordered to pay £150 with £85 costs. Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the Bowland area had a large quantity of stone walling and in recent months theft of stone had become a problem.
"The police have introduced patrols to combat this problem and one of then saw the defendants' van near Slaidburn," said Miss Allan, who applied for £450 to rebuild the wall to the standard required by English Heritage.
Kevin Bamber, defending, said it was an unsophisticated crime committed by three men looking to make a small amount of money. "The stone was all recovered but we accept the wall has to be rebuilt and that has to be paid for," said Mr Bamber.
Det Sgt Nigel Watson from Clitheroe CID said that dry stone theft was a growing problem in remote areas. He said: "The stone walls and outbuildings in Ribble Valley are an important part of its heritage. Our patrols are aware of this type of crime and are vigilant to the signs of it. But we cover an enormous area and we would also value the public's assistance in reporting anything suspicious."
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 LASSCO GRACES THE LAWNS OF KEW GARDENS THIS WEEKEND AT ANOTHER START EVENT
Kew Gardens hosts a big 'Start' event this weekend (running 25th - 29th August 2011) with all kinds of exhibitions, events and celebrations of sustainable living. Lassco will have a presence promoting our 'High Voltage Bar Stool' as a prime innovative example of upcycling or reuse of architectural salvage.
During the lull on Sunday lunchtime I might venture on stage and say a few words.
See previous posts about our contributions to the Start event at Lancaster House and Clarence House. Start is an initiative from the Prince of Wales. He explained all in an article he wrote last year.
HRH The Prince of Wales wrote [Daily Telegraph 31 July 2010]:
'I have always believed that great challenges present great opportunities. Becoming more sustainable is possibly the greatest challenge humanity has faced and I am convinced that it is, therefore, the most remarkable chance to secure a prosperous future for everyone.
'Unfortunately, far too many of us see the journey towards a sustainable future as only a burden, a threat to our quality of life or a danger to our economy. We only ever seem to hear about how much it will cost to lighten our footprint on the planet, how difficult it will be to travel or how hard it will be to provide enough food. The predictable result of this is that we do nothing, despite ever more serious warnings of catastrophe from those most qualified to make such calls.
'I can understand why it is so tempting to walk away from these huge problems. Given that people are often led to believe that the only choice is between catastrophic climate change and giving up all that makes life worthwhile, it is no surprise that most would rather bury their heads in the sand. This is why I have launched an initiative, called Start, and why I will be hosting what we are calling a Garden Party to Make a Difference at Clarence House in September.
'The idea behind Start came from a realisation that simply warning of rising tides, melting ice caps and collapsing fish stocks was irrelevant to ordinary, hard-pressed people. They are concerned - quite understandably - with other things, such as the economy, their health or the education of their children. They have scant time to think about the future, especially when the consequences of doing nothing seem a long way away. After all, the worst effects won't be felt for years, and those who will be hardest hit live far from here. Why should we do anything about it?
'Yet all the evidence shows that, in general, these same people want to do the right thing. For example, there are very few who are happy to eat unsustainably harvested fish if they know it will kill off stocks for future generations. There are few who wish to buy certain goods if they are told their production directly contributes to the destruction of the world's rainforests and the extinction of tens of thousands of animal and plant species.'
(Editor's note - Some of the comments about this article were amusing. For example 'paulienash' alleged 'Hmmm, showing his concern for the environment bit rich for someone that not only drives a Bentley Turbo but has it flown to Cloisters for his winter holiday.' Ex Friends of the Earth boss, Tony Juniper, defended Prince Charles' houshold's carbon footprint, which he said is reducing, and his lifestyle on a BBC Hardtalk interview - see link below - after the Daily Telegraph article was written.)
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 SWEET PEAS TO PARANOIA
Years ago I built a small house for my little son Toby. I suppose you would call it a Wendy House but I didn't like that title. It was just too soppy!
The original 'Wendy House' first appeared in J M Barries's play 'Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow up' in 1904. In the play Wendy Darling is shot by the Lost Boy, Tootles after arriving in Neverland , so Peter Pan and the other Lost Boys build a little house where Wendy fell. I suppose Wendy recovers but I'm not actually sure never having read the play or book! After that Wendy Houses appeared in gardens all over the world and continue to do so. Anyway, knowing that the original was more concerned with death I avoided the name Wendy House and just called it the Little House. It later became Sweet Pea Cottage. Toby was about 3 then. Later this month he will be 24. He's a dj in Greece all this summer. All last summer he was a dj in Ibiza as he was the summer before that and the one preceding it. In winter I don't quite know what he is! I think he plays 'House' music but it might be 'Techno', I'm not sure.
Sweet Pea Cottage came about for a mixture of reasons and the desire to build it for Toby was - to be honest - not the top priority. The top priority was more to do with garden design than anything. A small house, I felt would look good over in that corner of the garden, Toby could play in it and it would completely hide the hideous, concrete-slab-covered cess pit that was other-wise quite undisguisable! Also, I just fancied doing it.
In the yard were most of the materials I needed - tiles, lead light and other suitable windows, short chimney pots, plenty of 4" by 2" and 2" by 2" and a nice quantity of ship-lap boards and even a bit of pitch pine t and g flooring. In addition, in the scrap lead, some sweet little lead bird motifs had come in which I'd saved - they'd look nice somewhere. There were some doors with nice wind up bells on them for the front door and some little letter boxes etc. I saw the whole thing in my mind's eye!
I banged together a 4" x 2" framework, 8ft long and 5ft 6" deep. The house stood at 5ft to the eaves and 8ft 6" to the pitch. I found two 16" square lead-light windows and made a make-shift frame for them and set them in. I found an unusually narrow braced door which was only 25" wide and I cut that down to 3ft 6" high to provide the front door. On the northern end of the house I set in vertically the fan-light from an old Boulton and Paul window (we used to buy sashes, fan-lights and similar in those days).
I started cladding the house in the shiplap after of course constructing and levelling the floor and placing the framework on top of that. I was no builder but I used such common sense as I had (and I hadn't got much in those days!) and a slightly misguided attitude to aesthetics to build the house. It went up like a dream!
I'm not a man to use screws. I nail everything. I nail nearly everything with 4" nails - but not quite everything obviously! My dad was a bit of a sucker for a 6" nail but he didn't nail anything much. He got other people to do that. The other people in my boyhood were Big Peter (I was Little Peter) and Perce Holdaway. Big Peter was a Dutchman and worked for my dad for 26 years. He bought me my first bike when I was 10 and a lugger falcon when I was 17 (I was a falconer much of my boyhood and on Animal Magic at 14 with my hawks). Perce had hands "as big as Mant's sausages' my dad said! Mant's were a local firm that made delicious big, fat sausages but have long since gone. There was also Cyril who 'had St Vitus' Dance' my mother confided to me ( he had a violently nervous tick) and there was Raymond Brown who my mother said was a 'peeping Tom'! I don't remember Jim Smith who used to work for my dad and kept his little rolled up bogies carefully selected from each nostril in a small tin box which used to hold old-fashioned gramophone needles and which he would eat, apparently, with tiny, delicate jaw movements and with evident relish every once in a while; but he too was part of my very early childhood.
I used Belgian hand pressed pantiles on the roof of Sweet Pea Cottage mainly because we had a load of them that we couldn't sell. It was while roofing the little house that certain building fundamentals or rather my lack of knowledge of them started to appear! Firstly the tiles didn't fit the roof! They overlapped horridly! Ah! Obviously architects know how long a house is by the number of tiles on the roof? Or is it the other way around? No matter! Easily remedied! I cut bits off the tiles so that they fitted the length of the house but didn't appear to have been 'doctored' in any way. The right appearance was essential! I later stated that I 'sculpted' rather than built the house and I think that's a very good description. I hadn't really a clue on how to build a building!
When I put the pantiles on the roof - and only some of them, not all - I realised to my horror that the house was sliding over to one side or in other words collapsing laterally due to the weight of the roof! I hadn't put any diagonal braces in anywhere! Realising the fundamental problem but with a top heavy little house about to squash me I propped the building up from the outside with some four by twos and rapidly cut and fitted the ply interior which stopped the movement. I didn't add any more tiles until the entire interior was clad in ¾" ply! It was as tough as old boots then!
When all the tiles were on I built the chimney out of timber clad with lead and placed a little chimney pot on top. I bedded it down with cement and capped off the top to avoid water entry. It was a bit cranky to look at but essentially it worked! It looked good. A line of half round ridges bedded on cement completed the roof.
I subsequently built a few of these small houses, one of which achieved the equivalent of a silver medal at Chelsea Flower Show in 2009, for a trade stand. I priced the house and garden there at £25,000 but it didn't sell which was a real blow! I sold it later though at Summers Place Auctions for £15, 550 to a Belgian couple who made industrial looms. They further paid me £5,000 to deliver and erect it at their home in Brussels. I actually quoted £6,300 for this but they bilked me for the extra thirteen hundred which left a bit of a sour taste to the enterprise.
Now I want to create art for art's sake. I fancy a tower. There's the possibility of an Isolation/Paranoia Tower which stands 22ft high and has an external mechanical staircase that can be hand wound to close the steps off and make in effect a slide: no-one can ascend. The idea behind this is that the owner ascends the tower to avoid seeing people and reigns in splendid isolation but has also of course created a prison for oneself! I like that terrible irony. The other idea is a tower with internal staircase. The owner/performer ascends the tower and at a kick the wall like a drawbridge lowers, lights go on, music erupts and the 'performer' plays air guitar - that's all the tower is for. There's some other possibilities too……………………we'll see!
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 ANYONE INTERESTED IN OFT'S RECYCLED AGGREGATES INVESTIGATION?
The OFT published its market study into aggregates, including recycled aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete on Tuesday. It proposed to refer the sectors to the Competition Commission for more detailed investigation.
These sectors had a combined turnover in 2009 of up to £3.4bn and are vital inputs in the construction sector, which represents seven per cent of UK GDP. Some 40 per cent of construction expenditure is in the public sector, for schools, hospitals, roads and other physical and social infrastructure, with central Government being the biggest customer.
In its study the OFT identified a number of features of the sectors which could prevent, restrict or distort competition. These relate both to structural features that may dampen competition, and to the conduct of major firms towards smaller operators.
Issues include:
- High barriers to entry in aggregates and cement due to the difficulty of obtaining planning permission and the level of investment required.
- High and increasing concentration: five major players account for over 90 per cent of the cement market, 75 per cent of aggregates sales and 68 per cent of ready-mix production.
- The effects of vertical integration: the major firms are integrated across aggregates, ready-mix concrete and cement. We have received complaints about vertically integrated firms refusing to supply or discriminating against non-integrated competitors through their pricing.
- Multiple contacts and information exchanges across the markets, with major firms supplying each other with both aggregates and cement, and engaging in joint-ventures and asset swaps.
- An apparent squeeze between rising cement prices and stable or falling ready-mix concrete prices, affecting independents which both buy cement from vertically-integrated majors and compete against them in the ready-mix concrete market.
John Fingleton, OFT Chief Executive, said:
'More than ever, well-functioning markets are crucial to economic growth. Aggregates, ready-mix concrete and cement, important in their own right, are also fundamental to the wider construction industry.
'We are concerned that competition is not working well in these sectors, with underlying features of the market giving rise to persistent concerns. Lack of effective competition not only affects the public sector and business customers but ultimately leads to higher prices for consumers too.
'As a result we are proposing to refer these sectors to the Competition Commission for further investigation.'
The OFT will now consult until 30 September 2011 on its proposal to refer the market to the Competition Commission. It will be speaking with key parties directly. Others who wish to make a submission should send their written views to: aggregates@oft.gsi.gov.uk or alternatively by writing to:
Aggregates Market Study
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The vertical integration of construction material markets may be worse than the OFT realise when it is considered that some companies are both suppliers of aggregates and manufacturers of bricks. A company which is involved in the crushing of reclaimable bricks, sells recycled aggregates and makes a large proportion of UK's new bricks could be construed to have an unfair market position.
Added to this is the fact that such companies are paid by the UK taxpayer to save carbon by producing new bricks and aggregates more energy efficiently, but the same companies are allowed to destroy any amount of reusable material by crushing it for recycled aggregates as a carbon cost which the salvage sector would have otherwise saved.
Anyone who would like to be part of a group representations about this to the OFT please contact Thornton Kay of Salvo.
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LIZ GOODWIN OF WRAP SLAMMED BY DAILY MAIL OVER 'APPROPRIATE DISPOSAL' IN RIOTS CLEAN-UP
The Daily Mail fumed over WRAP CEO Liz Goodwin's comment that riot waste should be disposed of 'appropriately' - confirming Salvo's advice in last week's eSalvo.
On WRAP's blog Dr Goodwin wrote:
'Riots, green brooms and recycling on the go
'15 August 2011 - Having recently come back from my honeymoon, watching the news coverage of the riots in cities around Britain certainly brought me back down to earth with a bump.
'It must be heart-breaking for the affected communities to see their homes and businesses looted and vandalised, or worse - particularly for those who've put time and effort in improving and caring for their surroundings. Given the circumstances, it's heartening to see that there's still tremendous community spirit on display, with hundreds of people around the country rolling up their sleeves and getting stuck in to the clean-up operation.
'Keep Britain Tidy (KBT), through its Love where you live campaign, has been lending its support to the 'green broom brigade' and there has been a lively presence on Twitter as groups and individuals report the steps they're taking to clear up the mess. They've even been providing free clean-up kits for the volunteers.
'It was good to work with KBT recently during national Recycle Week when WRAP's Recycle Nowprogramme joined forces with the charity to help spread the word about recycling on the go. We had a particular focus on the 2012 Olympics at the time - from the outset the Games has had the stated goal of minimising waste at every stage of the project, ensuring no waste is sent to landfill during Games-time, and encouraging the development of new waste processing infrastructure in East London.
'But the desire to be able to dispose of items while we're out and about, knowing they can be recycled rather than going to landfill, is one that many people would like to be able to realise now. It's an area WRAP's currently looking at - what are your thoughts on this? Would you like to see strategically placed bins colour coded for different sorts of waste? Or do you think people should just take their rubbish home with them?
'Back to the post-riots clean-up, I'm sure the local authorities in the affected areas will also be doing all they can to help ensure that the materials removed - like broken glass, wood and bricks, can be appropriately disposed of. It seems a good example of individuals, businesses and communities working in partnership to get an unpleasant job done. I take my hat off to them…'
The Daily Mail wrote (16 August 2011):
'The wreckage of homes and businesses destroyed in the riots must be recycled, the Government's chief adviser on waste warned yesterday.
'Shattered glass, burnt wood and broken bricks should be 'appropriately disposed of' according yo the head of the recycling quango WRAP.
'Dr Liz Goodwin - whose pay package as chief executive went up last year to £213,000 - spoke out amid continuing efforts by local councils and teams of volunteers to clear the streets and remove the remains of buildings burned and smashed during four nights of rioting in London and across the country. Her intervention in the riot clean-up caused incredulity among critics of state-enforced recycling and green taxes. Doretta Cocks, of the Campaign for Weekly Waste Collections, said: "I was ashamed the rioting was happening in our country. I cannot believe that anyone thinks that recycling the wreckage is now a priority."
'Robert Oxley of the TaxPayer's Alliance said: 'It suggests that the head of this pointless and expensive quango is out of touch. Councils, businesses and residents will be focussed on rebuilding their communities, not separating out the recyclable glass'
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 BARBARA WINDSOR LAUNCHES START POP-UP AT LANCASTER HOUSE
Lassco is delighted to have provided a bar made from salvaged timber and decorated with all manner of architectural salvage for the 'Start' pop-up restaurant event, 27-31 July, held in the august surroundings of Lancaster House opposite Buckingham Palace.
Barbara Windsor pulled a pint at the bar for the eager press. Start, a national initiative by the Prince's Charities Foundation to promote and celebrate sustainable living, gave us an enthusiastic welcome saying that Lassco was completely on message as a business concerned with reuse and sustainable living.
[Start wrote on their website - ed]:
'Over the five days Start worked with Jamie Grainger-Smith, the founder of the eco-restaurant consultancy Think Eat Drink, using the burgeoning pop-up concept to showcase sustainable food and drink. A driving force behind Acorn House, the ecologically pioneering restaurant in London's King's Cross, Water House and Jamie Oliver's 'Fifteen Restaurant', Jamie's food ethos is built upon a strong commitment to sustainability.
'Start's focus on locally sourced food, recycling and seasonality combined perfectly with Jamie's long-time interest in sustainable food. The beating heart of any restaurant is, of course, outstanding food; the pop-up served the very best of modern British cuisine, simple but refined, served up in a opulent location. Sustainability is the ethos at the core of this project, but that doesn't mean flavour, quality or style is sacrificed.
'The restaurant was luxurious, comfortable and inviting, offering high quality food accompanied by some of the world's finest organic, carbon neutral and biodynamic wines. The headlining act was, of course, the food; the unique way it was cooked, the sourcing and provenance of all the ingredients. Meat and seafood was sourced from within the UK, and the natural flavours brought to life by Think Eat Drink's chefs with cooking techniques developed over many years in some of London's leading restaurants. Seasonality played a vital role in dictating what was on the menu, which featured the best of British summer produce.
'Diners had the choice of two distinct dining experiences: a four course lunch or five course dinner within the glorious setting of the Grand Hall in Lancaster House; or diners shared a platter of delicately balanced British cured meats, classic pies, beautiful array of cheeses, potted Dorset crab with toasted Artisan breads, on the terrace overlooking the beautiful gardens. A variety of beers, wines and cocktails was served throughout the day at the garden bar (supplied by Lassco).
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 THE WASTE HIERARCHY CANNOT BE IGNORED AFTER URGENT DEMOLITION
A reader asks if the new waste hierarchy set out in the Waste Regulations 2011 can be ignored in the clean up following the burning of old brick buildings in the recent UK riots, specifically whether reclaimable London yellow stock bricks can be crushed or landfilled or whether they must be reclaimed for reuse.
The Waste Regulations 2011 require all authorities to create waste prevention plans and waste management plans and to require public participation in the creation of such plans unless they have been designed solely for serving national defence or in case of civil emergencies. It would seem unlikely that urgent demolition subsequent to arson constitutes a civil emergency but even if it did, that should not preclude the salvage of bricks for reuse, especially if the demolished material can be loaded into trucks and taken to a facility where whole bricks could be salvaged - and this would seem to be a legal requirement if it can be shown that there is demand for the reclaimed bricks.
If there is no demand for the reclaimed bricks, then 'preparing for reuse' need not be applied. However, the agency concerned in making or sanctioning such a decision would need to prove that there was no demand before the bricks could be crushed (recycled) or landfilled, and this could only be done with confirmation from professionals within the brick reclamation sector.
It could be that the bricks were damaged during the fire. London yellow stocks can turn pink in a fire and will eventually vitrify and turn a glassy black. Fire damaged bricks may be tested for soundness by clinking two of them together. If they ring they are usually sound. Vitrified reclaimed bricks may still have a market for reuse as flared headers in diaperwork.
Reclaimed bricks may require testing for frost resistance and salt content for reuse in structural walls externally, but any sound brick would be deemed suitable for reuse internally, and such reuse is encouraged in the Code for Sustainable Homes.
Schedule 1 of the Waste Regulations 2011 requires the disposal of waste or reusable material to be the subject of a waste prevention programme and waste management plan.
It states:
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SCHEDULE 1
Regulations 5, 8 and 11
Waste prevention programmes and waste management plans
PART 1
Objectives
Overall objective
1. To protect the environment and human health by preventing or reducing the adverse impacts of the generation and management of waste and by reducing overall impacts of resource use and improving the efficiency of such use.
Application of the waste hierarchy
2.- -
(1) To apply the following waste hierarchy as a priority order in waste prevention and
management policy- -
(a) prevention;
(b) preparing for re-use;
(c) recycling;
(d) other recovery (for example energy recovery);
(e) disposal.
(2) When applying the waste hierarchy in sub-paragraph (1), the appropriate authority must ensure that it- -
(a) encourages the options that deliver the best overall environmental outcome, which may require specific waste streams to depart from the hierarchy where this is justified by life- cycle thinking on the overall impacts of the generation and management of such waste;
(b) takes into account- -
(i) the general environmental protection principles of precaution and sustainability,
(ii) technical feasibility and economic viability,
(iii) protection of resources, and
(iv) the overall environmental, human health, economic and social impacts.
Protection of human health and the environment
3. To ensure that waste management is carried out without endangering human health, without harming the environment and, in particular- -
(a) without risk to water, air, soil, plants or animals;
(b) without causing a nuisance through noise or odours; and
(c) without adversely affecting the countryside or places of special interest.
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NEW YORK SALVAGE AND RECYCLING LIST COMPILED BY NERC AND PROMOTED BY EMPIRE STATE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
The Northeast Recycling Council, Inc. (NERC) has produced a list of businesses which reuse, recycle and compost waste in the New York area. The list, which was commissioned from NERC by New York State's Empire State Development office, should provide recycling and reuse businesses with greater exposure to potential clients, and is a free service that could directly benefit salvage dealers, says compiler Athena Lee Bradley.
The list details 1,200 businesses from New York and northeast states, plus national and international companies, including brokers, collector/haulers, processors, composters, manufacturers, and reuse enterprises.
It should help find haulers and processors for materials, from paper to pallets, and should help manufacturers locate secondary or recycled materials needed for production. It also should increase the visibility of recycling and reuse businesses and should help such businesses gain customers.
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 HOW TO DETER COMPETITORS FROM COPYING YOUR WEBSITE IMAGES
A dealer in reclaimed stone asked how he can stop the images and photos on his website being copied and used by a competitor on their website. This is difficult to prevent because anyone who can view an internet image can also copy and reuse it, however there are some deterrents which could help.
Basically, any image displayed on the web browser of a visitor to your website has already been downloaded by that visitor to his or her computer - that is how web pages work. The only way to prevent that automatic download is to not put your images on a web page in the first place.
Your website should state that copyright belongs to you. The most common way to do this is with a copyright statement including the word 'Copyright' and the copyright symbol '©', the name of the copyright holder, the year date, and a simple declaration such as 'All rights reserved'. The complete copyright statement should look something like this - 'Copyright © 2011 BizName. All rights reserved.' If someone then copies an image you can send a legal 'cease and desist' letter pointing out that it is clearly stated on your website that the image is copyright.
If there are several images on a web page which have been taken by different photographers each should have a caption including the photographer's name. This does not have to state copyright ownership which is implied. If no caption is used the web page copyright statement will prevail.
Search engines copy images and many of these are copied and used on other websites. Search engines allow people to search for images but they do not prevent visitors from copying them. You can prevent search engines from indexing your images by using a robots.txt file to keep search engines out. This will not deter all search engines, but it will deter the main ones.
SalvoWEB gives users the option of refusing to allow images to be indexed by search engines such as Google. On Step 2 of create an ad, click the radio button 'Crawl by Google? Yes or No'. If you refuse to allow your image to be indexed it may reduce the amount of viewers your ad receives.
You can disable right-clicking with JavaScript code. When the user right-clicks an image to save it on a PC running Windows, they get an error message telling them the action is not permitted. This does not work on Macs. Disabling right-clicking is a well-known trick and will not deter anyone who knows how to deal with it. Also, because this method disables all right-clicking, it is very annoying for visitors who genuinely want to right-click in the page. A variation on the standard disbaler can be created which only affects images. The drawbacks of this method outweigh the advantages and it is not recommended.
A lesser-known nifty trick is to cloak images behind a transparent gif. Place the original image on the page in a table or layer, then place a transparent GIF image the same size over the top. When users right-click the image they will save the transparent GIF and end up with nothing.
An overt watermark is a very safe method which protects the actual image from copying by placing semi-transparent text over the image. This method affects the way the image looks, and is really only suitable for displaying sample images. A covert digital watermark can be used which does not show on the image, but which can be detected if the same image is copied and used on another website. Covert watermarks are not much of a deterrent but are good for proving ownership.
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