IDE announce the date for a major conference with Nottingham University in 2015

The IDE has announced that the Design for Deconstruction conference will be taking place on Thursday, 23rd April.

The venue is the following:

Newton building,
Nottingham Conference Centre,
Nottingham Trent University,
NG1 4BU

The conference starts at 9am and runs until 4:15pm.

Here's the conference explainer:

"A modern era truism is that "Waste is a design flaw". Consequently true, the demolition industry does not create waste but handles that which others put there.

Construction will never be truly sustainable until consideration is given, during design and planning, to the deconstruction legacy.

Design for Deconstruction (DfD) has been around construction for some time but has never engaged with the sector that deconstructs.

This conference brings together, for the first time, those that design, specify, construct, manage and legally frame construction projects with those that take them down and handle the deconstruction legacy.

The conference will consider nano-technology and how this may impact in deconstruction. You will hear about the extensive work being done on steel re-use and reclamation, and how Building Information Modelling (BIM) could be extended into deconstruction and there will be blue-sky thinking on how to create the legal obligation to consider deconstruction during design and planning."

If you book your place before March 26th then the delegate rate if £200. The standard rate after that date is £250. If you would like to attend then please visit the Nottingham Trent University online store.