3 MAY 2024 · Live on Reclamation Time, 16:00 Tuesday 9 April, Ankita Dwivedi explains the thinking behind https://firstplanit.com, her ground-breaking multifactorial new construction material and product chooser, and we think about incorporating the reclamation sector. Brian Murphy of https://greenbuildingcalculator.com almost joins in, but gadget gremlins get the better of him. An extract was read from Mongers blog about Sam and Louise's 80% reclaimed building. Sam writes, "My honest conclusion to this part of our project is to question why more people are not doing it and using reclaimed steel." https://www.mongersofhingham.co.uk/blog/a-new-reclaimed-building-3 https://www.mongersofhingham.co.uk/blog/a-new-reclaimed-building-4 There are piles of granite Jostle stones coming up at the Fawley Auction on 22 May https://auctions.wellersauctions.com/catalogue/40baf0e4292c23d296a734b14f56cdbe/45205abdbb84d2df36d33a64cd5790b5/lady-mcalpine-estate-clearance-unreserved-charity-sale/ along with 180 other assorted reclamation lots many of which were rescued from the orginal St Pancras Station in London during its redevelopment for Eurostar. https://www.cdp.net/en/ https://finance.ec.europa.eu/sustainable-finance/tools-and-standards/eu-taxonomy-sustainable-activities_en https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202302486 https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/05/wallmakers-toy-storey-home-kerala-india/ Former Salvo member, Stuart Grannen, has moved to Round Top. Architectural Artefacts abandons Chicago for a https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/peopleandplaces/world-class-collector-stuart-grannen-moving-chicago-shop-to-texas/vi-BB1lkFJ3. The Decorative Antiques Fair in Battersea runs from Tuesday 7 May to Sunday 12 May. In addition to the hundred plus dealers and their stock, there is a display at the entrance about the 1924 Liberty & Co English oak, French walnut and Cuban mahogany staircase and panelled entrance hall for sale, comprising four artic loads of the finest Arts & Crafts International Style woodwork made from timbers specified by the great Arthur Lazenby himself. And Salvo's latest pocket guide will by launched at the fair, together with a new restoration gude, produced in tandem with the House Directory who will have a stand in the mezzanine.

20 MAR 2024 · In this episode of Reclamation Time a trio consisting of Becky, Brian and Thornton have a frivolous rambling topical newsy chat at the futureBuild exhbition held in Excel London. Here are links to elucidate some of those about which we spoke, in order of mention. - https://sprec.fr - le Syndicat Professionnel du Réemploi dans la Construction - the new French reclamation trade association which was launched last week - The final https://vb.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/fcrbe-facilitating-the-circulation-of-reclaimed-building-elements-in-northwestern-europe/the-final-activity-report/the-final-activity-report/ - a five year EU project - Facilitating the Circulation of Reclaimed Building Elements - Salvo, of which Becky and Thornton are directors, was the major UK partner, and to which Brian Musphy contributed,. The report is available in French and English - 'Welcome to the Reuse Office!' - The https://futureuse.co.uk/the-salvo-pocket-guide/ - the new edition, currently in preparation, will feature the Salvo Restorers listings - https://hiiguru.com - https://www.washboxglobal.com - https://www.graphenstone.co.uk - today (19 March 2024) the UK website of this Spanish product states that it contains graphene - 'whose fibres provide the coatings and paints of Graphenstone with innovative qualities: thermal conductivity, greater toughness, flexibility, strength and uniformity. This nanotechnology compound acts as a structural support mesh at the molecular level' (shouldn’t this be ‘atomic’?) 'which translates into greater durability and, therefore, lower maintenance and more significant savings.' - https://asbp.org.uk - Alliance for Sustainable Building Products - https://remo.org.uk is the new trading name for CCORRN – Cambridgeshire Community Reuse and Recycling Network and the REMO Charitable Trust. Remo paints - Rolling Stones 1966 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSmiIne-4k Mck, Brian Jones on sitar, and those crazy chicks - Potted https://www.salvoweb.com/salvonews/36675-history-of-timber-treatment-from-1600bce-to-the-present-day An edited version of Reclamation Time Live held on Twitter X on Tuesday 12 March 24 and partly recorded at the futurebuild exhibition in London on 7 March with Thornton, Becky and Brian at the futurebuild exhibition in London. The next Reclamation Time Live will be broadcast at 16:00 (GMT/UCT) on Tuesday 9 April 2024. Reclamation Time is broadcast live on Twitter X Spaces at 4pm on the second Tuesday of every month. Listen on a smartphone. Each recorded episode is edited and released as the Reclamation Time podcast on Apple, Spreaker, Spotify, Amazon and other platforms.   Thanks to this month’s advertisers http://www.bathdecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk on from 14-16 March at the Bath Pavilion, and the https://www.modernshows.com at London's Dulwich College on Sun 24 March from 10am-4pm. Views expressed are the speaker’s own. Reclamation Time aims to be entertaining and thought-provoking but not a substitute for professional advice. Salvo welcomes comments, suggestions and corrections.

14 FEB 2024 · The United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals are used by 200 countries to inform policymakers but one of them, SDG12.5 encourages 'recycling and reuse'. The metric by which this is measured is 'recycling' alone and not 'reuse'. Brian Murphy and Thornton Kay discuss this topic and the reclamation and reuse of reclaimed doors at Nairobi Salvage Centre in Kenya, fairly recently made firedoors removed in demolitions and refurbishment of recently constructed buildings, upratong old timber doors to modern standards, along with the forthcominng construction show Futurebuild at London's Excel 5 - 7 March. This episode of the Reclamation Time podcast was kindly supported by advertising from: http://www.bathdecorativeantiquesfair.co.uk 15 - 16 March, Bath UK Links - https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/indicators-list - https://www.facebook.com/nrbsalvagecentre - https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/fire-resistance-historic-timber-panel-doors/ife-sig-guide-fire-resistance-historic-timber-panel-doors/ - https://www.futurebuild.co.uk - Salvo websites: https://www.salvoweb.com • https://futureuse.co.uk • https://trulyreclaimed.org - https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk Broadcast details First recorded on X Spaces Live 16:00GMT/UTC Tuesday 13 February 2024 Edited and uploaded to Spreaker, Apple, Alexa, Spotify and more 14 Feb 24 Presenters were Thornton Kay of Salvo, Brian Murphy of Green Building Encyclopaedia Views and opinions expressed in this podcast are the presenters and guests own views and do not represent those of their places of work or its employees. The podcast must not be taken as professional advice and is for entertainment and informational purposes only. Salvo welcomes any comments, suggestions, or correction of errors. Privacy is importance to us. No guarantee is given regarding the accuracy of any statements or opinions made on the podcast or website. The podcast is owned by Salvo Ltd (established 1991). The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_rule applies to this podcast which means that contents may be circulated but not attributed.

30 JAN 2024 · Brian Murphy gives a rundown of his green building websites. We start with some leftovers from December's episode. + + + + + + + + This month's sponsors: Salvo reclamation and reuse audits and surveys - https://futureuse.co.uk + + + ++ + + + Brian Murphy's green building websites https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk - - - - - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65a11af7e8f5ec000f1f8c46/NPPF_December_2023.pdf The next episode of Reclamation Time will be live on X Spaces at 16:00UTC 4pmGMT on Tuesday 13 February and recorded as a podcast which will appear on Spreaker, Apple, Google, Spotify and elsewhere. + + + + + + + + + Reclamation Time Live is on X Spaces at 16:00 UTC 4pm GMT on the second Tuesday of every month. Salvo members are welcome to join the live conversation.

20 DEC 2023 · Thornton and Brian in conversation, live at 16:00GMT(UTC) on Tuesday 14th December 2023 Introduction with this month’s hosts: Thornton Kay of Salvo: https://www.salvoweb.com/ https://futureuse.co.uk/ https://trulyreclaimed.org/ And Brian Murphy of Green Building Encyclopaedia: https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk https://GBELearning.com https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk Salvo received a reply to our letter (13nov23) to Michael Gove, the minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities asking the government to amend the https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65829e99fc07f3000d8d4529/NPPF_December_2023.pdf (NPPF) to contain a supportive new statement about its circular economy ambitions by giving support to the reclamation and reuse of reclaimed building material. The reply (11dec23) thanked us for our email regarding Government support for the reclamation sector and reclaimed building materials, and went on, ‘I hope it will be helpful to set out the Government’s policy in this area’ and quoted from two further documents - the National Design Guide (NDG) and the National Model Design Code (NMDC) - neither of which appear to contain support for, or even mention, reclamation and reuse of reclaimed building material. The legal basis of the design guidance notes which exclude explicit support for reclamation and reuse is on page 4 of the NPPF, which directs readers to the government's https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7ef594e5274a2e8ab4946c/141015_National_Planning_Policy_for_Waste.pdf which says 'The Framework should be read in conjunction with the Government’s planning policy for traveller sites, and its planning policy for waste' which in turn directs readers to Article 3 of the revised Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC) which can be found in https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2008/98/article/3 which states in para 13 that reuse means any operation by which products or components that are not waste are used again for the same purpose for which they were conceived. The cross referencing through many documents does not in our view show clear and transparent support for the circular economy with respect to the reclamation and reuse of reclaimed building material. How will this be viewed by local authorities (LAs) which write their own codes? Is there a legal recourse for salvage dealers to require their LAs to have clauses recommending reclamation and reuse? Thornton will draft and circulate a letter for Salvo members to use to send to their LA to ensure the reclamation and reuse of reclaimed building material is written into their local design guidance notes. Brian recalled the general enthusiasm of ‘architects declare’ of two years ago and whether LAs have publicly consulted about their policies in this area. Thornton pointed out that the London area has developed planning policies and guidance requiring consideration for reclamation and reuse when demolition takes place. Adrian Dobinson in Bath was mentioned about his nascent ofplan.org (http://ofplan.org) about which we hope to have a chat in an episode next year. Brian mentioned that AECB has produced LA templates for carbon, are they still available? Possible example policies and case studies. The AECB website does not seem to have anything useful on reclamation and reuse. Thornton made some more points about the need for people to take reuse more seriously. PFAS, forever chemicals, POPs, novel entities - Salvo wrote to the Environment Agency about carpet tiles of which around half are believed to contain stain-resisting persistent organic pollutants (POPs) which contain chemicals such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances (PFAs). We asked should they be landfilled and contaminate water, or reused above ground in a building until a device is made which can identify and decide the disposal pathway. No answer was forthcoming. In 1994 SalvoNEWS reported that a scientists from ISCOWA based in Utrecht provisionally found that reusable possibly toxic material with either a currently known toxic risk or a possible future one is better reused above ground in, for example, a building than buried in landfill where leachate will contaminate groundwater, or dispersed into the atmosphere via incineration possibly as a chemically-worse toxin such as dioxin. In future spectrographic analysis by iPhone will be possible to identify construction toxins and methods of safe and permanent disposal. Until that time comes reuse, possibly encapsulated, is the safest option. Brian had experience of another POP, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157593/, in PVC caused faults in, for example, plastic skirtings in hospitals. The use of phthalates were due to be resolved by the 2006 EU Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulations, now the 2021 UK REACH regulations. TK: There is now the https://echa.europa.eu/understanding-wfd, started in 2021, which currently lists chemicals used in over 12m products. And Brian mentioned a benign substitution portal, Subsport, which offers alternative less hazardous substances: https://clustercollaboration.eu/content/subsport-substitution-support-portal Asbestos was also briefly discussed - here is the link to a recent SalvoNEWS story on unlicensed, non-notifiable and notifiable work involving asbestos https://www.salvoweb.com/salvonews/38484-some-asbestos-removal-may-be-nonlicensed-hse-notifiable-or-not Links to other topics discussed: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/minerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_mass https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212982023000549 https://specifierreview.com/2023/07/11/sustainable-building-material-lime/ https://www.salvoweb.com/salvonews/38484-some-asbestos-removal-may-be-nonlicensed-hse-notifiable-or-not RB Asbestos Consultants: https://www.rbasbestos.co.uk/asbestos-encapsulation-ultimate-guide/ Construction News: https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/financial/administrations/hmrc-chasing-16-5m-from-squibb-group-over-alleged-tax-fraud-05-12-2023/ https://www.bellastock.com/bellastock-sinstalle-a-marseille/ https://gbelearning.com/sustainable-specification-writing-training/ Thanks to Primitivism for the music

1 NOV 2023 · This year Salvo has been doing a lot in London - exhibitions, talks, interviews, reclamation audits and the like - so what better than to relaunch the LinkedIn audio event known as ‘Reclamation Hour’ with a new ‘Reclamation Time’ podcast. First up, Sara Morel and Thornton Kay discuss topical news and views on reclamation and reuse in London retail and the Truly Reclaimed label for authentic reclaimed materials. Useful links and info: See SalvoWEB to catch Wellers’ online auction on behalf of Arc Reclamation: http://salvoWEB.com Learn more about our Truly Reclaimed label for authentic reclaimed products: http://trulyreclaimed.org Explore Liberty’s heritage Truly Reclaimed woodwork: https://trulyreclaimed.org/liberty-heritage-staircases/ Access resources like Fashion for Reclamation on our reuse economy platform: http://futuREuse.co.uk Read Salvo’s reclamation protocol: https://www.salvoweb.com/salvonews/16287-salvo-reclamation-protocol-1995 The book Thornton referred to about ‘Junkery’ was: The Art of Window Display: A Complete Guide to Modern Methods of Shop Window Publicity, Shop Lighting, Interior Display and the Work of the Display Man, edited by Harold Ashford Down, published in 1931 Thanks to Primitivism for the music