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EU BANS SIX TOXIC CHEMICALS
The European Union will ban six toxic chemicals between 2013 and 2016, three of which are commonly used in plastic household items. Among the compounds are three plastic softening phthalates, a musk fragrance, a flame retardant and a hardener for epoxy resin.

Although the most toxic phthalates have been banned in children's toys since 1999, a survey last October showed some are commonly found in products on supermarket shelves, including items regularly used by children, such as pencil cases and erasers.

The decision is being taken under the REACH regulation on chemicals, adopted in 2006 in what has been billed as the most epic lobbying battle in the EU's history.

The EU regulation on Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals - REACH - aims to make chemicals safer for human health and the environment by placing the burden on businesses to prove their products are safe before they can be placed on the market.

In January 2010, the European Chemicals Agency identified 29 substances that present the greatest cause for concern regarding public health and the environment. An EU roadmap is expected to increase the number of chemicals on the list to 135 by 2012.

Further regulatory headaches may lie ahead for a number of chemical companies, as new Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik said that "it is becoming obvious that REACH is not enough" to cover nanomaterials (ultra long chain molecules used in teflon, and stone and marble sealers), suggesting that the EU would take action to remedy regulatory gaps on the matter.

All this begs the complicated question, will reclaimed building material that contains any of these banned chemicals also be banned from resale in the secondhand market? Anyone with an answer, please contact Salvo.
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ALLIANCE TO TACKLE HERITAGE CRIME AND ARCHITECTURAL THEFT FORMED
A new English Heritage led initiative Alliance to Reduce Crime against Heritage (ARCH), has been formed by EH, the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Crown Prosecution Service, local authorities, charities, the Church of England and other groups to systematically tackle and reduce heritage crime.

In the face of what is reported as an escalating crime wave which has seen 'thieves ripping up Celtic crosses' the organisation is 'establishing a nationwide crime-busting partnership'. The true extent of heritage crime is difficult to pin down because of the way it is recorded and the fact it tends to be under-reported by victims, but as far as Salvo Theft Alerts are concerned the scale of these types of theft has been reducing over the past twenty years.

Also, at the end of the 1990s County police forces abandoned their specialist antiques officers due to the drop in crime, and listed building officers stopped the small number of crimes of architectural and garden theft reported to Salvo completely. So too did the National Trust.

Architectural theft is a crime that needs eradicating, and we believe that more theft alerts would help, both to recover stolen items as well as sending the right message to criminals. It does seem that in the past few years theft of lead and bronze have surged, but these are not salvage or antique related, but scrap-metal related.

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Florian Langenbeck oak doors [photo Florian
BAROCKENGEL MIT ZWEI FLüGELN
Es ist gute Tradition sich mit besonders spektakulären Jagderfolgen ablichten zu lassen, dass dem Inhaber dabei Flügel wuchsen war keine Absicht.

Dieses gut erhaltene und wunderbar verarbeitete zweifügelige Barockportal ist eines der spektakulärsten Objekte das jemals den Weg in unsere Einrichtung gefunden hat. Besonders ungewöhnlich ist die Tatsache, daß das Portal einerseits ungestrichen ist und damit eine besonders attraktive Oberfläche aufweist, andererseits aber die Zeitläufte trotzdem vergleichsweise unbeschadet überstanden hat.

Das zweiflügeliche Barockportal ist 232 cm breit und 297 cm hoch und kostet
Eur 6.800,00 incl. 19% MwSt.

Translation: Baroque door
Florian Langenbeck's Historische Türen has salvaged a baroque door. "It's traditional for the hunter to pose next to a spectacular catch," he said. The double moulded raised two-panel double door in the German baroque style, probably oak, is well preserved, Florian said, especially as (or perhaps because) it was not painted or treated in any way which has left it with a fine patina. The price includes VAT.
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Antique stone ornament by Sakhr El Matri's pool [clip Al Arabiya TV
DEPOSED TUNISIAN PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER USED ANTIQUITIES AS GARDEN ORNAMENT
In a recently-abandoned villa owned by the daughter of the former president of Tunisia, Sakhr El Matri, antiquities have been filmed on Al Arabiya TV decorting her swimming pool.

Many of the artefacts and antiquities confiscated by the Ben Alis originally came from the Bardo Museum, which has the world's largest collection of Roman mosaics. According to Samir Aounallah, the Tunisian museums committee president, Leila Ben Ali used museum artefacts, including mosaics and frescoes, to decorate the family's villas.

Archaeological sites have also been affected. "I have accredited sources that have said sites in Cap Bon had objects taken from them by the Ben Ali clan," said Aounallah. Although the director was not sure whether these pieces had been returned to their rightful owners, he did point out that a significant amount of "objects found in the villas of the Ben Ali clan have now been put back in their rightful collections."
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Frimley church time capsule
PULPIT TIME CAPSULE
. . . So there we were, lifting up this pulpit, when lo and behold underneath pops out this envelope. The Frimley Parish Church Time Capsule. Inside was a small packet of unused stamps, the Parish Magazine and a legal document; all dated from 1951. This was the year that the church took the momentous decision to lower their old pulpit by 22 inches. Being C. of E. this was not simply a case of the vicar borrowing a saw. Instead there was a Consistory Court Case (and these can have proper lawyers at full rate) to debate and ratify the whole affair complete with long incomprehensible parchment.

In fairness, I am sure this system is to protect against rogue priests chopping down the bell tower, but it did strike me as rather a lot of work to do a simple carpentry job. To give you some of the flavour of how the 'Faculty' is worded: 'HENRY' (yes, as in Henry VIII) 'by divine permission Bishop of Guildford to all Christian people to whom these Presents shall come or whom they shall or may in anywise concern and more especially to the Parishioners and Inhabitants of the Parish of FRIMLEY…'

At this point, things start to get really unreadable. To the best of my knowledge, these Faculties or licenses are done in the same way to this day. Quite a tricky business if all you want to do is paint a door, or whatever.

This is a follow up story to 'Moving a Pulpit' in SalvoNEWS on 10 Feb 2011
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A selection of cast iron radiators [photo Gaze
1078 LOTS OF ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE AT GAZE'S ON SATURDAY
Among the 1078 lots at T W Gaze architectural salvage and statuary this Saturday will be a number of cast iron radiators and a selection of sanitaryware including several WC pans. The sale will, as usual, be conducted by two auctioneers simultaneously.

See the link below for the full catalogue:
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INAUGURAL PREDEMOLITION AND RECLAMATION AUDIT WORKSHOP
BioRegional's first predemolition audit training workshop was held in Ashford yesterday. The one-day session was attended by a mixed group of twenty-three construction professionals including architects, builders, developers, reclaimers and demolishers.

The point of the predemolition survey, or reclamation audit, is to assess the types and quantities of material arising from demolition, with a view to encouraging more of it to be reused.

The morning was spent on BioRegional's one planet living, the ICE demolition protocol, and the benefits of reclaiming, at the end of which were two exercises - one on the carbon consequences of the reclamation of different material, and the other to list salvage arising from photographs of four demolitions of different ages and types of buildings. The carbon exercise used Craig Jones' ICE figures and the theoretical carbon displacement of reuse. Since Europe's finest LCA mathematicians have been unable to provide a definitive environmental maths of reuse, it was not surpising that BioRegional's was a broad brush approach.

The morning ended with a breakneck dash through carbon and construction stats with several complex powerpoint slides flashed through in few minutes. One slide from Habitat For Humanity stated that 25 jobs are created for every 1000 tons of material saved per year. This was for USA social enterprise, but in the commercial UK salvage sector in 2007 that figure was less than ten jobs per 1000 tons.

The workshop was held at Concept Training in Ashford, and after lunch the group visited their training workshops where young people were being trained as builders to learn different skills - mainly carpentry - and how to reclaim and reuse.

In the afternoon case studies of reclamation and reuse were given at the start of which one attendee commented that in their experience reuse was client-led, not design-led. BioRegional's case studies were of client-led salvage. Jonathan Essex made a point about salvaging and reusing door closers. The point that ideally doorsets should be salvaged intact, complete with closer, knobs, catches, locks, hinges, liners and architrave all held in place, in order to make them easier to specify for reuse was overlooked.

With the reuse by BedZed of reclaimed steelwork, it was explained that the flange and web of each old RSJ was measured and load-deflection tested before the RSJ was allowed to be reused. Perhaps BioRegional could have beefed up on other case studies from BedZed, including negatives or failures, such as, for example, the reason why reclaimed doors were not reused in the project.

One of the audience asked whether they needed to obtain licenses and waste transfer notes when they move or stored salvaged material. Reclaimed bricks with old mortar still attached does come under the regs, whereas pallets of cleaned reclaimed bricks do not. Perhaps a slide or two about the Controlled Waste Regs would be a good idea.

Specifications for reclamation and reuse were included, aw well as how to encourage mainstream construction and demolition contractors to save more in situations where reuse was not client-led. Should contractors be forced to save material by the design team? Should they be encouraged to volunteer reclamation statements at competitive tender stage, with the understanding that salvage would be a factor in the choice of the successful contractor? Brian Murphy of GreenSpec, an authority on this type of issue, who was at the inaugural workshop, said that the best option is to specify that the demolition contractor must salvage a certain quantity and then allow each tenderer to state additional salvage which they would plan to undertake.

Specification clauses and prelim clauses were given to attendees. Mr. Murphy's main advice to procurement departments and quantity surveyors was that the prelims wording should be of the form 'shall require' reclamation, and the specification clauses wording must also be included otherwise reclamation and reuse will not happen. He gave as an example, 'The door, liner, architrave and all door furniture number 26 from the demolition, must be reused as door 47 in the new build'.

Towards the end the workshop echoed the forthcoming British Standard, BS8905, guidance on the sustainable use of materials, which covers all three aspects of sustainability - economic, social and environmental.

The economic sustainability in BS8905 at a macro level can be seen by the total number of UK salvage businesses operating, the lack of government subsidies they receive, and the significant amount of tax the sector pays. It can also be seen at a micro level through the financial value of individual reclaimed products. The workshop set about quantifying the economic value of reclaimed building material from demolition, which was perhaps the easiest to do.

Quantifying the environmental sustainability of reuse is difficult. The 2008 EU Waste Framework Directive has prioritised reuse above recycling and energy from waste. Clearly reusing a reclaimed brick avoids the need to make a new brick along with all the environmental impacts, including carbon emissions, associated with its manufacture. The reuse of building material imported, such as tropical hardwood, may save biodiversity and rainforest habitat.

The social sustainability of reuse is also hard to quantify, but Jonathan Essex argued that the reuse of reclaimed wood at Concept Training and the national Wood Recycling Projects, whose main aim is the employment and training, is of benefit to society - and is socially sustainable. Again reuse of tropical hardwood may save the resources and way of life of indigenous peoples.

The one-day workshop could not cover some of the more arcane issues, but they were touched on.

Overall, this was an excellent workshop which hopefully will encourage greater salvage and reuse. It could do with some trimming on general sustainability, a greater focus on predem surveys and practical reclamation issues, and more clarity and information in the case studies - no doubt all of which will evolve over time.
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Hob grate at Mongers of Hingham [photo Mongers
DID COALBROOKDALE CAST MONGERS HOB GRATE?
A fine Georgian cast iron hob grate was collected recently by Sam Coster of Mongers of Hingham from a cottage under the Ironbridge at Coalbrookdale. On Sam's facebook page he asks whether it coould have been cast at the same time as the bridge.

"It is really a hob grate with fitted reeded back and side panels. It came from a cottage built in the 1780s, and Ironbridge was finished in 1779. I feel fairly confident that it was cast at the Coalbrookdale foundry at least," Mr. Coster said.

The beaded surround and register plate look quite early, although the fret looks to be a later addition. The beaded decoration is echoed on the fascia to the hobs as well. The use of a pricey commodity such as iron for the surround, when masonry would normally have been used at that period, fits with Coalbrookdale being awash with iron at the time. Here is a contemporary account:

'The trees are few in this valley, they are stunted in their growth and bare of leaves; the ground, at every step, presents fragments of iron and coal, and the dark orifices of the pits dug for the extraction of these useful minerals. The birds that animate and enliven country scenes, fly from this bleak and barren spot.

'Houses are seen scattered on all hands filled with a prodigious number of workmen, enormous masses of iron and coal, vast furnaces, forges continually at work, iron wagons loaded with manufacture of the same metal; and lastly, the famous Iron Bridge which joins the two banks of the Severn, a monument unique in its kind.

'The furnace, in the year 1787, had been kept burning for ten years without interruption; a remarkable circumstance, for these furnaces, in general, do not last so long. The vast bellows that maintain this fire make a noise which one cannot, without having heard it, for any idea of. They are managed by a single man, who proportions the force of the blast to the degree of strength that is meant to be given to the fire. In these workhouses there reigns a suffocating heat which custom enables the workmen to endure close the furnace, while other people are obliged to remain at a considerable distance.

'It is calculated that in Coalbroodale there are melted about a thousand quintals [50 tons] of iron a day. The metal is so common in the country that it is employed for all purposes; from huge cylinders of steam engines to the smallest kitchen utensils; solid wagons as well as their wheels are made of it; large boxes are cast at once, and even the tracks on the ground for carriages are made of it. As the soil is sandy, in order to transport easily the heavy loads of iron-ware, the roads for ten or twelve miles round, are furnished with four inch tracts for wheels; two for carriages going from Coalbrookdale, and two for those coming to it; so that the wagons which are constantly going and coming never interfere. They are all made on the same model, the wheels fit the tracks, and roll over them with great ease. The expense which such an apparatus must have cost is sufficient to shew the richness of these mines.' [Edinburgh Magazine July 1789]

The Coalbrookdale Company started making the world's first iron railways in 1767.

Back to the hob grate, there appear to be two medallion heads on the castings. Could these help to date and locate the its makers?
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Ration party of the Royal Irish Rifles in a communication trench during the Battle of the Somme 1 July 1916. [photo Royal Engineers No 1 Printing Co, Imperial War Museum
THE LONG GOODBYE
Tommy Atkins, Tommy Atkins!
In Flanders fields you lie
Otto Brundt the Prussian lies nearby
Skylarks rise upon the morning breeze
To sing their songs of praise
Wild flowers bloom in no mans' land
Gently swaying to and fro
Tommy Atkins, Tommy Atkins!
They are waving there for you, for you.

[Ronnie Wotton dictated this poem to Peter Watson of Cox's Yard in Feb 2011. The following notes and poems about Tommy Atkins have been added by the editor, trawled from the web:

Tommy Atkins (often just Tommy) is a term for a soldier in the British Army particularly associated with World War I. It is known to have been used as far back as 1743. The Duke of Wellington was inspired by the bravery of Thomas Atkins at the Battle of Boxtel in 1794, during the Flanders Campaign, After a fierce engagement, the Duke, in command of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, spotted the best man-at-arms in the regiment, Private Thomas Atkins, terribly wounded. The Private said "It's all right, sir. It's all in a day's work" and died shortly after.

Rudyard Kipling published Tommy as part of the Barrack-Room Ballads dedicated to 'T.A.' in 1892:
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."
The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,
I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:
O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";
But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.

I went into a theatre as sober as could be,
They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
But when it comes to fightin', Lord! they'll shove me in the stalls!
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, wait outside";
But it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide,
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's "Special train for Atkins" when the trooper's on the tide.

Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.
Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?"
But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll,
The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,
O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.

We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.

You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!

In 1893 the music hall song Private Tommy Atkins was published with words by Henry Hamilton and music by S. Potter:
O, we take him from the city or the plough,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And we drill him, and we dress him up so neat,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
We teach him to uphold his manly brow,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And how to walk, and where to put his feet.
Ta-ran-ta-ran-ta-ra
It doesn't matter who he was before,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
Or what his parents favor'd for his name;
Ta-ran-ta-ra
Once he's pocketed the shilling,
And a uniform he's filling,
We'll call him Tommy Atkins, all the same.
O!
Tommy, Tommy Atkins,
You're a "good un," heart and hand;
You're a credit to your calling,
And to all your native land;
May your luck be never failing,
May your love be ever true!
God bless you, Tommy Atkins,
Here's your Country's love to you!

In time of peace he hears the bugle call
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And in Barracks, from "Revally" to "Lights Out!"
Ta-ran-ta-ra
If "Sentry go" and "Pipeclay" ever pall,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
There's always plenty more of work about.
Ta-ran-ta-ran-ta-ra
As happy as a school boy, and as gay;
Then back he goes to duty,
All for Country, Home and Beauty
And the noble sum of half a crown a day.
O!
Tommy, Tommy Atkins,
You're a good un, heart and hand;
You're a credit to your calling,
And to all your native land;
May your luck be never failing,
May your love be ever true!
God bless you, Tommy Atkins,
Here's your Country's love to you!

In wartime then, it's "Tommy to the Front!"
Ta-ran-ta-ra
And we ship him off, in "Troopers" to the fray,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
We sit at home while Tommy bears the brunt,
Ta-ran-ta-ra
A fighting for his country - and his pay.
Ta-ran-ta-ran-ta-ra
And whether he's on India's coral strand,
Or pouring out his blood in the Soudan,
To keep our flag a-flying,
He's a doing, and a dying,
Ev'ry inch of him a soldier and a man.
O!
Tommy, Tommy Atkins,
You're a "good un," heart and hand;
You're a credit to your calling,
And to all your native land;
May your luck be never failing,
May your love be ever true!
God bless you, Tommy Atkins,
Here's your Country's love to you!

Following British defeat by the Boers at the Battle of Magersfontein in December 1899, Private Smith of the Black Watch, wrote the following poem:
Such was the day for our regiment,
Dread the revenge we will take.
Dearly we paid for the blunder
A drawing-room General's mistake.
Why weren't we told of the trenches?
Why weren't we told of the wire?
Why were we marched up in column,
May Tommy Atkins enquire . . .'

Tommy Atkins was the example name used on army forms from 1815 onwards (according to some) at the command of the Duke of Wellington, inspired by the death of Thomas Atkins. The name's use on, for example, conscription sheets during The First World War often led teenagers who were underage to sign up as Tommy Atkins.
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Delphine Krakoff loves to use antique flooring for her clients projects [photo: Wall Street Journal
INTERVIEW WITH TOP NEW YORK DESIGNER
Deb Schwartz interviews a Paris-born New York interior designer, Delphine Krakoff for the Wall Street Journal. With a passion for flea markets and Sothebys, Ms Krakoff says 'My signature decorating touches are lacquered ceilings, usually white, which give a sense of height. I also use antique wood flooring and antique stone mantels from France combined with a more modernist approach to architecture.'
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Apple magnate's house up for demolition [photo: Marketwatch
STEVE JOBS'S CALIFORNIAN MANSION TO BE DEMOLISHED
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs, has been granted permission to begin dismantling his 1926 Spanish colonial mansion in Woodside. Some elements of the large stucco house will be saved by demolition company for resale or donated to museums.

Steve Jobs bought the house in 1983 and lived in it for ten years. Susan George from Woodside's town planning department said he is planning on building a smaller house elsewhere on the same plot of land.
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Myanmar colonial buildings under threat [photo LA Times
COLONIAL BUILDINGS THREATENED BY DEVELOPERS
Campaigners are worried that Yangon's colonial buildings are likely to be demolished by Chinese developers.

At the turn of the 20th Century Yangon (formally known as Rangoon) in Myanmar had been occupied by the British for five decades. The infrastructure and public services built up by the British Empire were said to have put Yangon on a par with London at the time.

With over 200 buildings still standing, Yangon has the largest collection of colonial buildings in South East Asia. Many of the buildings are extremely derelict. In March 2010, a 15 year old girl was killed when part of a building fell in Shwe Bontha Street. One restoration project saw $38 million spent on reconstructing the white Strand Hotel.

In 2001 the military government placed 198 buildings on a preservation list, but given the political unrest and rural poverty in Myanmar, saving old buildings is not top priority.
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DISTANCE SELLING REGULATIONS
If you sell to consumers online, or sell at a distance by another method such as digital TV, mail order, phone or fax, then the Distance Selling Regulations may apply to you.

In general you are required to:

- give potential customers certain information in advance, such as your name and address, the goods you are selling or the services you are providing, the price (including all taxes), delivery cost, delivery arrangements, and customers' right to cancel
- send customers an order confirmation giving information such as your postal address and cancellation arrangements
- allow customers a seven working day cooling off period during which they can cancel their contract with you.

There are some exceptions to the regulations such as: financial services, transport, accommodation, leisure services and food, drink or other goods for everyday consumption delivered by a 'regular roundsman' such as a milkman.

The OFT has produced information specifically tailored to the rapidly growing e-commerce sector.

[source: Office of Fair Trading. See Office of Fair Trading website for documents 'Key Information for online retailers' and 'How to protect yourself when trading online'.
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The new mobile aggregate washing plant M2500 from CDE
OPEN WEEK FOR NEW MOBILE RECYCLING PLANT.
From Monday 28th February, JPE Aggregates in Birmingham will host an open week to demonstrate a new modular mobile machine for screening and washing aggregates.

'The M2500 is the worlds first purpose built Mobile Washing Plant, consisting of a fully integrated feeding, screening and sand washing system.' say CDE Ireland Ltd, who manufacture the machine, ' It is possible to wash and accurately size up to 4 products simultaneously, all types of screening media can be easily fitted and changed, minimising installation.' The M2500 integrates with four other systems to provide a complete mobile modular construction, demolition and excavation waste recycling plant.
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DESIGN A POSTER COMPETITION FOR DECON '11
The Building Materials Reuse Association is pleased to announce the Poster Session Program at the DECON '11 Conference.

Architecture, construction management and environmental sustainability students are urged to submit original contributions related to the fields of deconstruction, building materials reuse, and construction and demolition debris (C&D) recycling that can be displayed in an educational poster format.

Overview:
BMRA consistently seeks to advance research and education in the public interest. The purpose of the DECON 2011 Poster Session Program is to provide a means of stimulating interest in deconstruction, building materials reuse, and construction and demolition debris (C&D) recycling research, as well as communicating other useful deconstruction information to the profession to include best practices, new program initiatives, etc.

How It Works
Complete and submit the attached Poster Proposal Form by Friday, March 11, 2011. There are two categories, Undergraduate Student and Graduate Student. Proposals are reviewed and those selected will be notified no later than March 25, 2011. Of those posters selected to display at the conference, these posters will be judged by panels made up of BMRA members and members of the Poster Committee and winners from each of the categories will be announced during the DECON 2011 conference in New Haven. Cash prizes will be given to the first ($200) and second ($100) place winners in both categories. All selected Poster Presenters must be present at their poster in the exhibit hall on Tuesday, May 17 from 5:00 - 6:30pm. If you are not present during this time, your poster will not be judged and you will not be eligible for an award.

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Tiles from The Old Radiator Company at Listed Property Show 2009
LISTED PROPERTY SHOW THIS WEEKEND
Exhibitors for this year's Listed Property Show include Architectural Heritage and Winchcombe Reclamation from Gloucestershire, Charles Brooking Collection from Surrey and The Old Radiator Company from Kent.

Kelly-Marie Smith from Listed Property Owners Club says 'As we all know, owning a listed property is not always health, wealth and happiness. Legislation, conservation and regulation can seem like the three horsemen of the listed property owner's apocalypse. Just finding a decent builder or understanding the VAT rules is enough to give you sleepless nights.'

'The Listed Property Show is a free event for select Listed Property owners, designed to banish all your domestic nightmares and ensure another 12 months of healthy home-ownership. For February 2011, we've bought together the industry's best, all under one roof in London's Olympia.

'It's a unique opportunity for a stress free one-to-one session with our ever-popular conservation officers, who will work through hypothetical plans for extension or alteration. From window and door manufacturers, to craftsmen and 'caring' builders, to the rather more prosaic experts in fire protection or insurance.'

The Listed Property Show is held on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th February at Olympia in London. Admission is free.
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ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUES AT NEC'S HOMEBUILDING & RENOVATING SHOW
Woodstone from Surrey, Cox's Yard from Gloucestershire, Olliffs Architectural from Bristol and The Old Radiator Company from Kent will be exhibiting in March at the Homebuilding Show in Birmingham.

Period Living Magazine were instrumental in organising the group of reclamation stands. This year is the 21st anniversary of Period Living Magazine, and their involvement in Homebuilding is part of a number of shows they are taking part in, including Salvo Fair, Knebworth in June.

The Homebuilding Show is open from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th March at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Free tickets can be applied for the Thursday Trade Day from the website.

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Tanzania 2010 [photo Afrikit
FOOTBALL SHIRT REUSE BRINGS JOY
When football clubs replace their kit for a new season or players move on to a new club a hardly used football shirt can suddenly go out of date. So what can a football supporter do with the old one? An alternative to abandoning the shirt at the back of a wardrobe would be to donate it to Afrikit.

Afrikit is a charity bringing the joy of owning your own football shirt to poor children and adults in Africa. Apart from the fun side a football shirt can also help to bring communities back together. Shirts donated in 2010 are now being worn to play football in Kenya, Tanzania and Lesotho.

Afrikit is interested in all donations whatever the age, size or quality. The charity even takes shorts and socks as well. Collection points are located in Decathlon stores around the UK. But co- founder, Jack Hands, said Afrikit is ' looking to expand, so is actively seeking partners who will put shirt bins up for us! '
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Removing a Frimley pulpit
PULPIT ON THE MOVE
Finally worked out how to have a nice collage of pictures (thanks, Photobucket) rather than the opaque system Tumblr provides (no offence, and thanks for the free service anyway). And to celebrate here is a little action sequence showing our marvellous boys in action moving a pulpit base in a church near Guildford.

It was that worst of all church jobs - a building site. And while we did not actually see anybody doing any work while we were there - tea drinking, paper reading, aimless wandering and watching us was as good as it got - the builders had nonetheless managed to rip up all the flooring just before we turned up to remove the 8ft high pulpit. Thanks for that.

This meant that we had to move the thing old style; busting it up and dragging it off. As I had done my back in a couple of days previously - sneezing, believe it or not - I restricted myself to undoing some of the x hundred screws that the OCD Victorian nutter carpenters had used to make this thing, and taking out of focus pictures of our follically challenged crew scuttling towards the exit. Wa-hey! Wish I had done a little film, then you would get the sound effects as well. Tucked inside the pulpit was a little time capsule envelope of stuff, I will scan soon and this can be the next installment of the exciting Frimley Pulpit Series.
Chancellors: Antique Pulpits For Sale from £250 to £4,500 for a Christopher Wren pulpit
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Bag for life handmade in Africa [photo Westwood
BAG FOR LIFE
If you love style but care about the environment then why not take a look at ethical fashion. The Ethical Fashion Programme has collaborated with Vivienne Westwood in her 2011 SpringSummer bag collection. The bags made from reused fabric are all one of a kind and also help women in Africa.

The women make the bags from advertisement banners and safari tents in Nairobi, Kenya. The aim of the programme is to empower the women through quality work that also minimises the negative impact on the environment. It also enables the community to build a skilled workforce to raise living standards for the future. The Africa get-a-life shopping bag is one that will last you a lifetime too.
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FREE PRE-DEMOLITION AUDIT TRAINING OFFERED BY BIOREGIONAL
BioRegional Reclaimed has organised two free pre-demolition and reclamation audit workshops, in Ashford on 23 February and Oxford on 23 March, using a reclamation-led approach to demolition with real life case studies that provide practical guidance.

With the rising costs of disposal of construction waste the demolition phase of a development can offer a major opportunity for measurable savings. By identifying construction material that can be reused, a developer can reduce the amount of waste sent for disposal as well as contribute to organisational carbon targets and wider sustainability objectives.

With an audience composed of all sectors of the construction chain, from procurement and design to build, this workshop will not only introduce new ideas but will also allow delegates to understand the perspectives and perceived constraints of material reclamation for other sectors of the construction industry.

Bring outdoor gear because after a morning of introduction and training the delegates will use their knowledge to carry out a visual inspection of a site in the venue area.

Programme led by Jonathan Essex, BioRegional:
09.00 Arrive for coffee
09.30 Introduction and Welcome
09.40 ICE Demolition Protocol
10.00 Waste Minimisation and Reuse best practice
10.30 Carbon Accounting
11.00 Coffee
11.20 The Pre-demolition audit toolkit and Reclamation Surveys
12.00 Worked examples
12.30 Questions and Answers
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Off site deconstruction and Pre-demolition audit
15.00 Best Practice case studies and contract clauses
16.00 End

This project is part funded by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and European Regional Development Funding (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-13.

Free registration: Email Matt dot Sullivan at BioRegional dot com or Tel: 020 8404 4238.
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Cavern reclaimed bricks [photo Man Vyi
RECLAIMED BRICK CAVERN CELEBRATES BEATLES ANNIVERSARY
The Cavern club is today celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first appearance of The Beatles on 9 February 1961.

In 2007 the Cavern celebrated its 50th birthday with a 13 hour party. The Beatles played hundreds of gigs at the Cavern Club between 1961 and 1963. The original club was located in the cellars of an old Victorian warehouse which was demolished in 1973 to allow a shaft to be built for the Mersey underground railway Link improvement. In 1983 it was decided that the Cavern should be rebuilt, following the death of John Lennon, a few yards away from its original location, reusing some of the old bricks reclaimed from the original demolition. Over 15,000 secondhand bricks from the old Cavern were reused in the reconstruction. Some salvaged bricks were taken by locals and 5,000 were sold by site owners the Royal Life company in 1983 for £7 each. A plaque certifying their authenticity was glued to each antique brick with the proceeds being donated to a local charity. All of the reclaimed bricks were sold, and in the late 1980s one Cavern brick was said to have been resold for over £500 by Sotheby's.

[source SalvoNEWS 17 Jan 2007, inc Beatles Cavern video and brick authentication plaques
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Dying Alexander museumview at the Uffizi [screenshot from Google
STREETVIEW SHOOTS VERSAILLES, UFFIZI AND OTHER MAJOR GALLERIES
Google's Streetview technology has been used to create virtual tours of world class galleries in a scheme known as Art Project. The tours are cranky, if anything worse than streetview's normal output, but hey, they do seem to work, albeit slowly and jerkily.

Some of the galleries paintings, but none of their sculptures, are presented in gigapixel form, where miniscule close-ups are possible. A stroll around the Palace of Versailles and its garden can be made with the marble ornament, which is clearly visible at a distance, rendered blurry close-up. So too with the Uffizi in Florence, where the galleries can be scrolled through, showing its layouts and the wealth of antique sculpture it possesses, but without being able to see it too close.

The copyright of the gigapixel images is owned by the galleries which could choose whichever paintings they wished to appear in close-up. The museumview tour is copyright Google.

The Tate Gallery blog contains a description of how Google did it, written by project manager James Davies:
'The version of Street View technology used in the galleries involved an extremely high tech and rather silly-looking trolley. It was to be pushed around the rooms at a particular speed and on a peculiar route, and seemed to me to be a marvellous combination of garden-shed and cutting-edge. Changing the battery, at 23 kilos each, they were not fun to carry around. The trolley was not simple. It had lasers and cameras and GPS and all sorts. You could not stand in its view, for fear of being captured. Yet it could see you, left right, up down, back and forth and everywhere in between. So it must be operated by a squirrel (a trained man with a perfectly shaped back) who hides in its visual wake and guides it through the rooms. Then you have to be completely out of sight. Which is interesting when you are trying to oversee the logistics of the operation. And in an empty museum at 2am you begin to think that this rule of not seeing what is going on provides perfect cover for some daring and complex ploy to steal a masterpiece. And that must be what the lasers and cameras and GPS are for. The best way to monitor progress was on our security cameras. The team worked diligently charting their peculiar route through each gallery, trying not to slow down in front of paintings they liked, while I scurried about moving stepladders and other bits that might look as if people actually worked in the museum after hours (they do). It not only knew where it was, it knew where it had been (blue lines) and where people where hiding (green dots). The cyber-trolley's all-seeing eye captured me at one point as I attempted to dip out of view, and of course I am secretly delighted to be immortalised albeit with a blob for a head.'
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BANTER COULD RESULT IN COMPENSATION UNDER THE EQUALITY ACT
Customers and staff who find the banter in UK salvage yards offensive may be entitled to compensation under the Equality Act, according to Linda Stewart, of Simpson Millar, and Julius Erolin of Equality Works, who write in Jonathan Moules 'Business Questions' column in the FT on 5 Feb 2011.

An intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment, and jokes or banter about age, race, gender reassignment, disability, religion or belief, and sex or sexual orientation, could now provoke a claim for compensation.

Preventative measures, including making it clear to all staff that harassment and certain jokes and banter are unacceptable, will help a business defend an action for compensation. Workplaces free from harassment are generally more productive and innovative. Stewart and Erolin do not mention whether workplaces free of jokes and banter are more productive. Inclusive workplaces also tend to identify and correct safety issues faster and more effectively than others.
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STUNNING GLASS STAIRCASE SMASHED DURING DECONSTRUCTION
A glass staircase broke during dismantling after it failed to sell on SalvoWEB for £3,000, and sold instead on eBay for £1,575.

On 15 January 2011 the owner, who needed to remove the staircase as part of a property renovation, placed an enhanced listing on SalvoWEB costing £30 inc vat. The owner wrote that it was an 'amazing glass and metal stair case, tempered glass to the side, impeccable quality which must have cost £25,000 new. If you are planning, building, contemplating, dreaming of a loft or new house or conversion I urge you to consider fitting this stunning bit of work. It was the most stand-out feature when we viewed this property but unlike the couple we bought from we have three kids, a dog and need a new bedroom and simply can't accomodate this awesome feature. This is a hugely expensive addition to any project, but we have no way to utilize it and I'd love someone to take advantage of this chance to procure a seriously luxurious extra for a great price. We plan to have it removed by our builders so it will be ready for collection from late-January onwards.'

The Salvo ad received 33 visitors over the next five days, one of which wanted to buy, but by then things had moved on and the owner had already decided to put it on an unreserved eBay auction starting at £10, and cancelled the SalvoWEB ad. The owner wrote, 'eBay appealed as it had a bidding process rather than me offering it at a price, but I foolishly listed it at dawn so it finished at 6am on Sunday (23rd January) which was an error.' It may have been better to have ended it in the evening. In the end six people had bid, with the winner getting the staircase for £1,575. The eBay listing had 160 views, probably from around 50 visitors, over the three days of the auction.

Then disaster struck after the auction was over and the staircase was being dismantling. 'The staircase shattered upon removal - which was tragic! The winner was a private buyer some distance away who was trying to incorporate it into a renovation project. The buyer is still going to take the steps and metal, despite the damage, but only for a nominal cost.'
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