{"id":2096,"date":"2016-12-11T17:52:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T09:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T09:53:57","slug":"smart-materials-circular-vision-article-new-civil-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/smart-materials-circular-vision-article-new-civil-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart materials | Circular vision | Article | New Civil Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/technical-excellence\/smart-materials-circular-vision\/10014968.article?blocktitle=In-Depth-In-Full&amp;contentID=14369\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/3047122_BenBlossom_TheCircularBuilding_S-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Construction in a circular economy will require a shared vision of reduced waste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Waste is a major problem for the construction industry worldwide. In the UK, the industry produces three times more waste than households \u2013 and only half is recycled. This is unsustainable even in the medium term. Lessons should be learned from the manufacturing sector because a considerable structural change in the entire built environment industry is urgently needed.<\/p>\n<p>So said Arup chairman Gregory Hodkinson, addressing a conference on the Circular Economy held at London\u2019s Building Centre on 21 September. More than 200 delegates heard presentations from the likes of Hodkinson\u00a0and Bam Construct UK sustainability director Nitesh Magdani on how construction can adopt the basic principles of the circular economy and move away from the current waste-generating traditional linear economy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline_image image_size_full\">\u00a0Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newcivilengineer.com\/technical-excellence\/smart-materials-circular-vision\/10014968.article\">Smart materials | Circular vision | Article | New Civil Engineer<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction in a circular economy will require a shared vision of reduced waste. Waste is a major problem for the construction industry worldwide. In the UK, the industry produces three times more waste than households \u2013 and only half is recycled. This is unsustainable even in the medium term. Lessons should be learned from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,362,38],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-news","tag-smart-materials","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}