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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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 BMRA RECLAIMED BUILDING MATERIAL REUSE SUMMIT IN ONTARIO
The USA Building Material Reuse Association is organising a summit conference in Toronto on 4th October during the Greenbuild conference which is also taking place. This aims to be a how-to summit on increasing recovery and reuse of construction waste. The full day cost is $185 and the keynote speakers are Sadhu Johnston, deputy city manager of Vancouver, and Nadav Malin, president, BuildingGreen. Topics will include the role of regulators and policy makers in developing reuse markets and tools for designers and contractors to facilitate recovery and reuse.
Each year in the USA, over 300,000 buildings are demolished, which results in a significant amount of valuable materials including concrete, asphalt roofing, bricks, metals and lumber being unnecessarily disposed of. Recovering and reusing construction materials results in the retention of capital resources and supports local jobs. The summit will give lessons from industry and government leaders on how they are facilitating the recovery and reuse of valuable materials from construction waste with positive economic results.
The venue is the fermenting cellar of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery, constructed in 1859 and located in the Distillery Historic District. The building was repurposed as a venue, and still features the original heavy timber beams and trusses, and Kingston limestone walls.
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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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BUFFALO REUSE SERVED WITH EVICTION ORDER
Social enterprise building materials salvager, Buffalo Reuse, which has had a turbulent time recently, has now been served with an eviction order for failing to pay its rent and maintain its buildings. Last month, Buffalo ReUse says they were given an eviction notice by their landlord and that their rent would almost double to $5,000 a month.
Vincent Kuntz of Buffalo ReUse said, "The rent on this building is about $1.75 for a square foot per year. And that's higher than average for a building this size and condition."
The landlord, Clark Bono, alleged that Buffalo Reuse had severely damaged the building and had refused to sign a new lease. Buffalo Reuse has not made a decision but are considering their options for the future and it will stay open at least until the end of September.
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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
One in five will spend in excess of £30,000 on their renovation
One in eight will spend over £50,000 on their project
62% have already responded to an advert seen in Period Living
Contact Samantha Eagle 01527 834494
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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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TED REIFF URGES DILIGENCE ON DONATED MATERIALS APPRAISERS
It never fails. When a new business model is developed based on an older, established model, two things happen. First, older, entrenched businesses attempt to discredit, and in some cases demonize, the new model. Second, unscrupulous faux organizations spring up to make a quick buck off unsuspecting customers, even if it means flaunting the law.
When deconstruction companies first began to promote a softer approach to building removal so that valuable materials could be salvaged and landfills preserved, they were routinely discredited, often by the demolition industry itself. Fortunately, that picture has changed. While deconstruction still gets pooh-poohed occasionally, now the folks who do the bad-mouthing only end up discrediting themselves, not us.
Sadly, we haven't been so fortunate when it comes to faux-organizations. In fact, the more popular deconstruction becomes, the more alert we need to be for the sharks and charlatans whose presence threatens the entire industry.
I've become particularly concerned of late about the burgeoning ranks of building-materials appraisers, some of whom are 1) unqualified, and/or 2) quote ridiculously high valuation rates in order to win appraisal jobs, regardless of the long-term consequences to the donor.
As you probably know, an independent, third-party appraiser enters the picture when an in-kind donation reaches $5,000 or more (most donations to TRP exceed this threshold). IRS regulations require a professional appraisal in order to assure a realistic, fair valuation of the donated materials.
Now, mind you, a fair valuation is not simply one that is low enough to avoid IRS scrutiny. It is one that meets or exceeds IRS requirements. IRS regulations on appraiser qualifications have become more stringent in the last few years, and TRP sets its own standards even higher.
The following paragraphs are excerpted from IRS Bulletin 561"Determining the Value of Donated Property" (revised April, 2007). I added the underlines for emphasis.
"A qualified appraiser is an individual who meets all the following requirements.
1. The individual either:
Has earned an appraisal designation from a recognized professional appraiser organization for demonstrated competency in valuing the type of property being appraised, or
Has met certain minimum education and experience requirements. For real property, the appraiser must be licensed or certified for the type of property being appraised in the state which the property is located. For property other than real property, the appraiser must have successfully completed college or professional-level coursework relevant to the property being valued, must have at least 2 years of experience in the trade or business of buying, selling, or valuing the type of property being valued, and must fully describe in the appraisal his or her qualifying education and experience.
The individual regularly prepares appraisals for which he or she is paid.
The individual demonstrates verifiable education and experience in valuing the type of property being appraised. To do this, the appraiser can make a declaration in the appraisal that, because of his or her background, experience, education, and membership in professional associations. He or she is qualified to make appraisals of the type of property being valued.
The individual has not be prohibited from practicing before the IRS under section 330(c) of title 31 of the United States Code at any time during the 3-year period ending on the date of the appraisal.
The individual is not an excluded individual."
The same bulletin considers an appraiser "excluded" if he or she "… acted as an agent for the transferor or donor in the transaction" or is "… any person employed by any of the above persons." In discussions with our IRS auditor and CPA, these definitions were further clarified to include employees of the appraiser who happen to be close relatives of the deconstruction contractor or any officer of the nonprofit organization.
When a donor winds up paying additional taxes because their donation was unfairly valued or the appraiser was unqualified, the donor is not the only one to suffer. The reputation of the recipient organization takes a heavy blow as well. Frankly, I'm afraid that the IRS may drastically tighten its rules because of the shoddy and, in some cases, illegal practices of a few bad appraisers.
Individuals and companies that make the TRP list of qualified appraisers must agree to follow certain guidelines. Among other things, our appraisers are expected to prepare reports in accordance with Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practices (USPAP), and to visit the project site prior to deconstruction to confirm the type, condition and characteristics and the materials being donated.
TRP refuses to compromise it values at any time, but especially when it comes to the valuation of donor materials. We are committed to providing donors with enough solid documentation to sustain the value of their donations, and we support that documentation with:
Laboriously detailed inventories
Internal quality control of such critical variables as materials received, documentation and inventory
Diligent, reputable managers who provide excellent customer service
Enviable salvage rates, made possible in part by our knowledge of reuse/recycling markets
Thoroughly vetted appraisers who can be trusted to produce fair-market appraisals
TRP has occasionally refused to accept donations from owners whose appraisers were either unqualified or "excluded" by the IRS. We did it for their protection as well as our own. In addition, we have refused to do business with appraisers who practice below-standard appraisal practices or evince insufficient qualifications. And we have de-certified a few deconstruction contractors because they continued to refer potential clients to questionable appraisers.
Whether you are a contractor, a nonprofit that accepts salvaged building materials, or a building owner considering deconstruction, I urge you to conduct your own due-diligence on any appraiser who gets involved in the donation process. If you need assistance, give TRP a call.
Ted Reiff is President amd CEO of The Reuse People. Excerpted from TRP's website 'How to appraise the appraiser'.
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 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S INAUGURATION ON RECLAIMED LUMBER
Removing the Roadblocks to Material Reuse
The sustainable design industry has made a strong and growing commitment to reusing and integrating previously manufactured materials in a wide range of innovative projects. Design teams are recognizing that the utilization of reclaimed materials not only
extends the life of resources, but also can contribute aesthetically and, in many cases, structurally to the overall quality of a project. However, finding first rate materials, of suitable quality and quantity can pose significant challenges. It is difficult enough to
find new materials that are within the required distances to project sites for high-level projects striving for LEED certification or participating in the Living
Building Challenge (TM). While new materials are generally well-publicized and widely distributed, sourcing reclaimed material options are not. So how are project teams to overcome the barriers associated with material reuse? Instead of thinking of reclaimed materials solely as decorative elements that are added so that one can employ use of the word 'reclaimed' as a description in the specifications or on the drawings for a project, they need to be integrated into the process from the initial project idea through to project com-
pletion. This fuller integration will help ensure that these buildings have a reduced carbon footprint.
Many projects that are currently in design or construction and striving for 'Living Building' recognition are working through this exact issue - how to incorporate reclaimed material options into their projects. While suitable quality reclaimed materials may often be avail-
able in sufficient quantity and located within acceptable distances for a given project, the real problem rests in project teams knowing the availability of the needed materials and how to access them for their projects.
Roadblocks in the reuse of materials center around old habits and ideas that the industry has reinforced for years: the convenience of specifying new materials that are available in any quantity whenever we want; misperceptions that reclaimed materials are always
more expensive; uncertainty of the unknowns of reuse; and many more. But now we are able to reference and learn from the first three 'Living' projects and cite examples of successful design teams that are pushing the boundaries of industry standards. Where did the teams find materials? How did they source them while meeting tight design reviews and deadlines? And how do we learn from those projects to make it easier for
others in the future?
The sustainability movement is remarkably transparent. The sharing of ideas, solutions, challenges and triumphs is carried on throughout Cascadia's annual Living Future conference and this type of sharing needs to continue throughout the global design com-
munity when it comes to reclaimed materials. Over the past three years, we have seen many projects take new approaches, changing the way we look at materials and projects. Comments like "let us know what is available" and "we'll build the materials you have avail-
able into our project design" have become increasingly frequent for materials brokers and consultants in the reuse industry.
PlanetReuse, a reclaimed construction materials broker, had the privilege of sourcing reclaimed materials for two of the first three "Living" projects. Assisting with both the Omega Center for Sustainable Living and the Tyson Living Learning projects, Plan-
etReuse was brought in at different phases of each of the projects, but was able to work with the architects, contractors and owners to help source reclaimed materials such as rigid insulation board, beech wood paneling, interior doors and hardware, trim work,
toilet partitions and accessories, plywood, and dimensional framing. The project teams found it very beneficial to have a partner to locate the materials, coordinate logistics, manage for quality control, and arrange for delivery of materials to the jobsite
on time. "We could not have done it without their help…when we were not able to find a material option that would fit our tight timeframe in new material…reclaimed was a great alternative," commented Daniel Hellmuth of Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects
in reference to Washington University's Tyson Living Learning Center.
Documentation of the use of reclaimed materials in fifteen projects throughout North America appeared recently in Public Architecture's Design for Reuse Primer. The publication documents challenges and successes on projects that incorporated reclaimed materials into their designs. Many exceptional owners, design firms, and construction companies are showcased as they worked to develop sustainable projects that incorpo-
rated many reclaimed materials. Among the projects highlighted in the Design for Reuse Primer that involved the assistance of PlanetReuse are the Omega Center project in upstate New York and the 5200 Dauphine project in New Orleans, LA. On the 5200 Dauphine
project (currently under construction and striving for LEED Platinum), there were numerous materials used from the existing buildings that were deconstructed on the project site as well as from other buildings in the neighborhood and we were able to help source re-
claimed timbers for the roof framing from within a 500 mile radius at a cost savings.
"I wish we would have known about a reclaimed material locating service like yours earlier in the process as we could have explored even more reclaimed material options with the structure and envelope," said Laura Lesniewski of BNIM Architects on the Omega
Center project. The earlier in the process that reuse materials are thought of the better the opportunity to incorporate reclaimed options into the design. With the tight radius requirements for sourcing materials, it helps to work with consultants and brokers with broad networks of contacts who can share their knowledge about existing and upcoming options. It also allows for great material histories and stories for educational outreach and to communicate to people visiting completed projects about the value of material reuse. For example, the Omega Center features reclaimed dimensional lumber and plywood from the President Obama Inaugural stage platform and structure.
We often hear ideas about "easing the percentage or the mileage requirements" for reclaimed materials to help achieve Petals or Credits for certifications. These types of compromises could come at a cost to genuine sustainable design. Sustainability should not exist as a scorecard or a checklist. Rather, it is a way of providing design and construction methods with future generations in mind. Though it may be easier to lower certification requirements, as an industry we need to look at materials in another way.
Introducing reclaimed material options earlier in the project process as well as expanding the types of reused materials will divert more and more materials from landfills. Thinking outside of the box by expanding to more materials is one of the most sustainable things we can do. And once we incorporate reclaimed materials into projects, we need to spread the word about the changing industry and to share the many ways we can reuse materials and divert them from landfills.
From 'Removing the Roadblocks to Material Reuse' in TrimTab Winter 2011.
Nathan Benjamin, LEED AP, is the president and founder of PlanetReuse.
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 FAVOURITE CHURCH IN THE WORLD
For 12 years me and my family have been going on holiday to Chranoi, a small dead end Greek resort in the Peloponnese. I have watched my younger children grow up here, away from the distractions of school, homelife and my own boring routine that has meant me missing large parts of their childhood. There is nothing much to do here. There are three eatable restaurants, one drinkable bar and cafe and two swimmable beaches. No internet and no newspapers. After a few days in that ancient heat, with the cicadas scraping away and nothing to do but reach for another fat Kalamata olive and chilled red wine from a plastic bottle, one can slough off most cares. No wonder the Greek economy is stuffed; who would want to work in such a beautiful country?
One of our end of holiday rituals is to go and visit the tiny church of St Ilias, a few hundred metres above the Bay of Messinia. The last stretch is car hire hell, up a steep unpaved dirt track with lots of boulders for that 'Did-we-lose-the-exhaust-that-time-darling?' dialogue. But once you are there, it is worth it. St Illias was reputed to have heard God's voice in the breeze, and this is the sort of place where you could imagine that happening. The whole world is put into perspective for a while and even the prospect of picking a fish for dinner from the Socrates Restaurant chiller cabinet (at least 5 to choose from) seems unnecessarily complicated.
I look at the views. Breathe out a few times. Then go inside the church and pray to be a wiser, kinder person.
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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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 STOW SARCOPHAGUS SOLD BY SOTHEBY'S AS AN 18THC COPY
In November 2001, antique garden statuary specialist Hilary Chelminski held a selling exhibition in Chelsea which included a Coadestone version of a Roman marble sarcophagus for sale at £32,000, of which the Roman marble original once owned by George, Duke of Buckingham, was known as the Stow sarcophagus.
On 8th June 2011 a marble Stow sarcophagus was sold at Sotheby's New York for $98,500 (est $15,000-$25,000), not as a Roman original, but as an eighteenth century Italian copy, possibly by the workshop of G B Piranesi. Sotheby's catalogued the lot as c1770-80 and stated:
'The present urn was long considered to be one of the most important antiquities in the collections of the Dukes of Buckingham before their dispersal in 1847. In fact, the 'Stowe Sarcophagus' is one of the most ambitious pseudoantiques ever produced by late 18th-century Roman workshops for their English clientele. The engraving of 1847 and
the coadestone cast show that the urn originally rested on a highly ornate marble base typical of Piranesi's production.The 1798 description of Stowe by J. Seeley specifies that "the covering to it is a mattress, upon which lies a snake, and a human figure of very capital workmanship is reclining in the folds of it."
Eleanor Coade said there was a naked figure lying on a serpent on the lid and an inscription saying it was made in the time of Trajan. Further she said, "It is impossible to give an adequate description of the exquisite workmanship of this piece of ancient sculpture." She had moulds made from which the Coadestone versions were cast.
The story goes that the Duke of Buckingham's Roman marble sarcophagus was found near the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, about twenty miles from Rome, beside the ruins of Hadrian's villa, where a treasure trove of marble and bronze was discovered including Antinous, the Furietti centaurs and the Warwick Vase. The villa had been known since the early fifteenth century, but it was not until 1550 that Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este, governor of Tivoli, started excavations in earnest to provide materials for decorating his new villa. Cardinal Albani continued the pillage, along with Cardinal Furietti, and Gavin Hamilton who in 1771 discovered what became the Warwick Vase. The marble sarcophagus was sold by Buckingham to a Mr. Norton in 1848 and had not been heard of until 2011.
The relief scene: The Coade sarcophagus was 28ins long, with a relief of a Roman sacrifice of a cow or heifer (interestingly, definitely a bull on the Sotheby's Stow sarcophagus) decorated with woollen tresses being led by toga-clad men, one of whom is carrying a sacrificial pole-axe. The cow or heifer would have been washed and adorned with ribbons and strips of white or scarlet wool, the horns gilded. Roman sacrifices required a female animal for a female deity, apart from Jupiter to whom both male and female sacrifices could be made. The animal should show no sign of panic, which would have been a bad omen that polluted the sacrifice. The poleaxe would have stunned the animal rendering it instantly unconscious, it would then have been cut open and bled to death, the entrails would have been inspected by a priest and provided they were satisfactory the sacrifice was deemed complete, the animal would then be roasted and eaten at the subsequent feast. Cow or heifer sacrifices were made to Jupiter, Juno, Salus, Victoria, Penates, Lar or Genius Loci and Tellus. Roman sarcophagi and altars were synonymous, liturgically every altar was a tomb. Altars used annually (and the remains within them) were reburied after use.
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 BIOREGIONAL'S FOUNDERS WIN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
BioRegional's co-founders Sue Riddlestone and Pooran Desai were awarded by the Schwab Foundation the accolade of Social Entrepreeurs of the year, along with three others. They received the award at the World Economic Forum in Vienna in June, where awardees actively participate by providing insights on sustainability and social innovation in the discussions under the meeting's theme of Expanding the Frontiers of Innovation.
Sue Riddlestone and Pooran Desai issued a joint press statement:
'We are really honoured and delighted to join the World Economic Forum as Social Entrepreneurs today. The reason we wanted to become a part of this network is to share what we have learnt in building and creating truly sustainable communities and businesses. We also want to learn ourselves by talking with and listening to world leaders about how best we can help in the global mission to transition to a sustainable future. This is a particular focus of our work right now in the run up to next June's UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
'It was brought home to us just how high level the World Economic Forum is as we arrived this morning. We saw the tight security with many police and then as we took our seats both the Chancellor and President of Austria and the Prime Minister of Ukraine addressed the plenary. It is so high level there were even questions from the floor from Ministers! It was fascinating to hear them all speak about the very same things that are on our minds - energy and resource security - and how to create sustainable economies in their respective countries and regions. After presenting us with our award this morning, Hilde Schwab, chair and co-founder of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship advised us to please talk to everyone here as we are all on the same level. We have already made some great government level contacts and will definitely keep networking.
'We wouldn't be here at the World Economic Forum without all the skill and effort of the fantastic team at BioRegional and all our amazing partners as together we commit to try and achieve sustainability or what we call "one planet living". We hope we can say thank you to them by really multiplying our joint efforts this week at the World Economic Forum.'
The reclaimed building materials arm of the BioRegional group, BioRegional Reclaimed, is a Salvo Code member.
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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
Office of Fair Trading
Level 4, Fleetbank House
2 - 6 Salisbury Square
London
EC4Y 8JX
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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 ARTEFACTS CELEBRATES 25 YEARS IN SALVAGE
Despite broken bones, sliding off roof tops, falling through floors, splinters, brick dust and flea infestations, Chris Blott and Scott Little of Artefacts in St Jacobs seem to be in one piece, sane and celebrating twenty-five years in the business of salvaging architectural antiques.
"For the most part what we carry is a luxury item," Chris Blott told Chuck Howitt of The Record. "During the recession of the early 1990s, the sale of practical items plunged and the company survived by selling small decorative pieces, and cleaning and restoring items on spec and building a showroom to display them. During the recent downturn, Artefacts relied on custom work, such as making a kitchen island out of 1830 pine wainscotting, to get through the tough times. In the early days, without a network of pickers, dealers and demolition contractors across Ontario and beyond, valuable items fell to the wrecking ball or the owner's lack of interest in saving anything. 10 to 15 years ago, architectural antiques suddenly became trendy and antique shops began selling front doors and newel posts. That trend has since abated, leaving a core group of about half a dozen businesses such as Artefacts across Ontario."
"There have been a lot of peaks and valleys," said Scott Little. "We've never found that cash cow to keep us on the peaks, but over the past 25 years it has always worked out. This is the first year we have actually turned down work."
Little launched Artefacts almost by accident. The Toronto native and architectural studies grad had moved to Kitchener with his wife and was staying at home to care for their newborn child. He was looking for parts to renovate his home when he saw some houses being demolished on Courtland Avenue between Queen and David streets to make way for an apartment building. He approached the wrecker about salvaging some pieces and was told to take a hike.
Seeing a potential market and flush with cash from renovating and selling their first home, Little launched Artefacts in a rented building behind Benjamin's Restaurant in St. Jacobs.
A former museum worker, Blott came aboard about three years later. The 47-year-old grew up in Kitchener, but spent summer vacations at an old 1840s house on Lake Erie. His parents eventually renovated the house, but Blott preferred it the old way.
"I loved the cracks in the plaster and the rolling floors."
Together, the pair have tramped through close to 2,000 buildings of 1820 to 1920 vintage across southern Ontario and as far away as Philadelphia, New York City and Quebec.
They've walked through crack houses, grow-ops, houses full of cats, houses damaged in movie sets, flea-infested dwellings and falling-down structures.
"Chris holds the record for falling through floors," says Little, adding that he once broke a foot when a front entrance fell on him. Some people have this very romantic notion about salvaging. It's actually pretty filthy and arduous."
But there is also plenty of excitement. They'll get a call from a demolition contractor to come to a house on as little as a day's notice. For Blott, the drive to the demolition gets his adrenalin pumping.
In one case, they drove to a demolition in Shakespeare and were initially disappointed to find a dilapidated 1970s bungalow. But inside were early diamond panel doors from the 1840s that the house had been built around.
Little and Blott are the only two full-time employees, aided by a few part-time workers. They do much of the repairing, welding and painting themselves, but call in expertise when they need it.
"We have a tight circle of craftspeople," says Little, who worked on Heritage Canada's Main Street revitalization program in the 1980s.
The shop and warehouse, which Little and Blott purchased and moved to in 2004, is jammed full of old doors, fireplace mantels, shutters, stained glass and buckets of old doorknobs.
A common misconception is that they get their artifacts for free. In most cases, they pay the owner of the building or the demolition contractor.
One of the keys to their success is knowing the origins of each artifact.
"We know where it comes from, we know our periods and dates," says Little. "If somebody comes in with an 1840 home, we're going to have an idea of what the doors would be like, the trim, the hardware."
In the beginning, the virtual demolition of nine houses, first fodder for the bulldozer, then waste at a dump, lead directly to the formation, in 1986, of Artefacts Architectural Antiques. Since then, Artefacts has become an indispensable resource for people interested in restoring, renovating and just plain fixing up their buildings. As interest in architectural history has grown, so has Artefacts' desire to renovate Canada's built heritage. A sub-conscious need for tangible remnants of the past, apart from nostalgia, also fuels Artefacts' drive to salvage and rebuild using antique architectural pieces.
Their clientele has changed, broadening the scope of what can be done with fragments, and Artefacts has expanded the selection of stock entering the shop. Thus, traditional items such as doors, complete front entrances, fireplace mantels, stair components, cast iron floor grates and door hardware of brass and iron have been augmented by new and antique decorative columns, cornice brackets, ornate fireplace tiles, tin ceiling, iron fencing, carved stonework, terra cotta and ornamental cast and wrought iron gates and window grills, some from as far as Argentina, and tables recrafted from original elements and salvaged wood.
After 18 years in downtown St Jacobs, Artefacts moved to a 9000 square feet showroom.
Projects have included an island kitchen constructed of 1830 pine wainscoting from Grafton, Ontario, an entertainment unit built around a pair of shutters (1835) from Pennsylvania, and a headboard shaped using a wrought iron grill from a basement window in Baltimore, Md (c1865). On a grander scale, Artefacts supplied the details for the CP Hotel restaurant in Whistler, BC.
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