Matthew Morris
matthew-morris.bsky.social
Matthew Morris
@matthew-morris.bsky.social
Architectural Technologist MCIAT · Circular Economy Built Environment Specialist · Author of the ACAN Circular Economy Design Guide · Committee Member, Drafting Standards at BSI B/558/1 · Low Carbon Manager at Galliford Try
When Site Waste Management Plans were scrapped in 2013, waste went up — not down.

📊 DEFRA data shows construction & demolition waste rose nearly 20% in just four years.

#CircularEconomy #WastePrevention #NetZero ##CircularEconomyTaskforce
October 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
When considering existing assets, demolition should never be the default. Policy must require justification for taking a building down. From an embodied carbon perspective, keeping buildings in use is almost always the lower-carbon choice.

#CircularEconomy #RetrofitFirst #NetZeroCarbon #policy
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Stakeholder mapping shows how complex the circular built environment really is. Aligning the value network is critical to achieving circularity. Early client and developer decisions carry the most weight and can lock in decades of carbon.

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#CircularEconomy #netzero
September 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
@robertgordonuni.bsky.social found 90% of UK oil & gas workers have skills transferable to offshore wind. The barrier isn’t people—it’s policy. Let’s build on what we have.

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#GreenJobs #WorkforceTransition #justtransition #netzero
August 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The RSA & Zero Waste Scotland identified 6 high-value, cross-sector reuse opportunities from North Sea decommissioning: steel, pipelines, vessels, cables, tanks & modular units. These aren’t waste – they’re materials for a regenerative industrial future.

#reuse #circularity #strandedassets
August 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A circular, regenerative approach to designing the built environment recognises that business-as-usual has driven six of the nine planetary boundaries beyond safe limits - the systems we rely on, from climate and biosphere integrity to nutrient flows and land-system change.

#CircularEconomy
August 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
By 2030, planned fossil fuel production is set to be 2x what we can safely burn to stay within 1.5°C. Even if we burn only existing reserves, we're still on track to overshoot.

Existing and new oil and gas fields are stranded assets in waiting.

#strandedassets #productiongap #northsea #climate
August 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM