Construction — design

A third of our waste comes from buildings. This one's designed for reuse and cuts emissions by 88% Roberto Minunno, Curtin University; Greg Morrison, Curtin University; Richard L. Gruner, University of Western Australia, and Timothy Michael O'Grady, Curtin University Designing buildings so they can easily be taken apart and the materials reused provides a feasible and commercial pathway for minimising waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Our research shows one such Curtin University building, the Legacy Living Lab in Fremantle, reduces construction waste and cuts emissions to almost a tenth of what a conventional building process would produce. The modular, circular...