Category: News

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tERC backs the Circular Buildings Accelerator

The Engineers Reuse Collective is pleased to be a founding supporter of the Circular Buildings Accelerator, a national collective bringing organisations together to accelerate the transition towards a resilient and circular built economy.
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tERC part of NuBau Labs™: a new European initiative to scale structural material reuse

The Engineers Reuse Collective is a key project participant in NuBau Labs™, a €4m Horizon Europe-funded initiative launched this month to tackle one of the most persistent challenges in construction: how to test, certify and remanufacture salvaged concrete and steel so that they can be confidently reused in new buildings.
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Draft London Plan consultation:
tERC response

The Engineers Reuse Collective has provided a response to the draft London Plan consultation 2026. We support the direction of the draft Plan, which goes further than the current Plan. But we do not think it shows the ambition or the leadership London needs on existing buildings and embodied carbon.
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Approved Document B Consultation

The government’s review of Approved Document B proposes a height threshold that would push structural timber out of buildings above 11m unless a full fire-engineered case is made. We are concerned that the proposals represent a retrograde step at precisely the moment the construction sector needs to be moving in the opposite direction. The reuse, retention and extension…
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One year on – why engineers must lead on reuse

One year since launching, James Morgan describes the genesis of The Engineers Reuse Collective and explains how the organisation is building knowledge and helping engineers to advocate for greater reuse across the industry.
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AJ Retrofit Live 2025
Why aren’t we reusing more?

Here’s some of the key messages from the talk that Anna Beckett and Gareth Atkinson gave on behalf of The Engineers Reuse Collective at the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Live conference last week.
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IStructE Annual Academics Conference 2025

Andy Yates presented at the The Institution of Structural Engineers’ Annual Academics Conference, sharing an industry perspective on how we can embed reuse into everyday engineering practice.
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IStructE Young Engineers Conference 2025

Anna Beckett and Andy Yates presented at The Institution of Structural Engineers’ Young Engineers Conference on the topic of ‘Thinking Differently’.
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Structural Engineers Declare Webinar

Andy Yates presents an introduction to The Engineers Reuse Collective at the Structural Engineers Declare webinar in February 2025.
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Six UK engineering firms join forces to launch The Engineers Reuse Collective

Six major UK engineering firms have launched The Engineers Reuse Collective (tERC), a not-for-profit group committed to accelerating reuse in the built environment to support the transition of the UK’s construction industry to Net Zero Carbon. The first of its kind, the group convened due to growing concern about the climate crisis and the collective…