Putting energy into waste
25th March 2011
Our views on design in the energy and waste sector have got top billing with two industry-leading titles.
In Building, we voiced our opinions on good and bad design in the magazine’s regular ‘Wonders and Blunders’ column. Contrasting the virtues of SITA’s innovative energy from waste plant on the Isle of Man with the design vices of an incinerator in Stoke-on-Trent. “The words ‘funky’ and ‘waste plant’ don’t often go together but here they do,” we said of SITA, contrasting with his Blunder’s “stark and locally unsympathetic design”. For the full article, click here.
In Local Authority Waste and Recycling’s web pages, read by waste management professionals and public sector managers, he discusses how excellence in design can help smooth the path to planning consents for new waste infrastructure. Writing about ‘the beauty of waste’ we said: “It’s becoming more important to recognise that waste infrastructure, if not waste itself, can be striking, stunning and inspirational.” Click here to read the full article.
“'The beauty of waste'. A strange phrase, you might think. Can sludge, for example, ever be attractive? Maybe not. But it's becoming ever more important to recognise that waste infrastructure, if not waste itself, can be striking, stunning and inspirational. ”
David Rycroft, Business Strategy Director