Ecobuild is the world’s largest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment. This year Ecobuild was held at the Excel Centre in east London with more than 600 speakers and 1300 exhibitors, all held over 3 days from Tuesday 1st March.
I attended two days and interestingly in this year Kingston University launch a library of 1200 samples of sustainable materials that use fewer virgin resources and that are easily renewed.
To be honest, comparing with last year, I felt Ecobuild have become a giant commercial event. There were a lot of material and product companies and some parts lost point for sustainability and future environment.
For me, the most interesting session of Ecobuild was seminars and lectures for sustainable design and landscape. In particular, Grant Associates’s presentation for their winning design ‘Garden by the bay’ in Singapore was really impressive. (Even it was not entirely focused sustainable design..) They described their strong narrative planting scheme with different story and environmental concept. Moreover, I could realise their design consideration for relationship between building and garden. But I still want to know more about their scheme for ecosystem of the garden.
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