Preserve and reuse – or destroy and rebuild? Losing the UK’s twentieth century building legacy – and sustainable ways to save and repurpose it.
Useful, reusable buildings such as the News Centre and the Tricorn which embodied our communities’ history, identity and aspirations are currently being lost and their embodied carbon wasted by demolition.
This disposable culture needs to be reversed if the UK is to meet its net zero target. Existing buildings are an untapped economic and social opportunity. This talk explores local and national examples of sustainable reuse.
Wednesday 16 April 7pm. Royal Maritime Club, Queen Street, Portsmouth
Portsmouth Society talk: ‘The greenest building is one that’s already built’
