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ARCHITECTURE IN THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY: Reclaiming Building Resources
October 26, 2018, Tory Building TB350, 7pm – 9pm
A lecture by Marc Gorgolewski as part of the symposium Heritage in Reverse: Material Values, Waste and Deconstruction being held on October 26-27, 2018. Organized by the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies, and supported by the NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering Program.
This event is free but RSVP here.
See the posters for each event here:
- Gorgolewski lecture on October 26.
- Heritage In Reverse symposium on October 27.
Mark Gorgolewski is Chair, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University, and the author of Resource Salvation: The Architecture of Reuse (2018). Mark is past director of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and former Chair of the Association for Environment Conscious Building in the UK. Mark’s research areas include building performance assessment, sustainable housing, reuse of components and materials, and design for urban agriculture. His interest is in the area of closed-loop systems applied to the built environment. This includes strategies to enhance the performance sustainability of construction materials, building products, buildings as well as urban environments. His work addresses the integration of energy, water, materials and urban food systems.