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FUTURE OF LIVING

CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD

Murray Grove – the first urban housing project to be constructed entirely from pre-fabricated solid timber.

Image: © Will Pryce

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ever have presentations both

alarmed and inspired me in equal

measure quite like those of Pooran

Desai and Andrew Waugh at our

Future of Living event in April.

Pooran, who is the co-founder

of Bioregional and International

Director of One Planet Communities

set the scene with some of the stark

ecological realities facing us on a

global level.

Some of the most powerful

statistics from Pooran’s presentation

related to the unsustainable

consumption levels of the global

middle-class. Pooran educated us in

inescapably clear language about

how we as a world began to consume

in excess of our planet’s carrying

capacity during the early 90s, and

how if all the world were to live a

lifestyle akin to that of the average

Sustainable

Structures

If all

the world

were to live

a lifestyle

akin to that

of the average

European, we

would need

three planets

to sustain us

C&W’s lead residential researcher Lee Layton

provides his reflections on presentations by

Pooran Desai OBE regarding ‘One Planet

Living’ and Andrew Waugh on innovations in

the use of timber in construction.

By Lee Layton,

Associate Director,

Research, Residential

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