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Sustainable Exhibition Design

Introducing PLB’s Green Design Initiative

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Why PLB went green

• Company vision

• Reflecting staff attitudes

• Challenging ways of working

• Leading best practice

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What does it mean?

Social

Economic Environment

Sustainable

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A sustainable exhibition?

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Our Green Design Approach• Suppliers on standby

• Clarifying your vision

• Tendering suppliers

• Individual exhibition criteria

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The supply chain

• All suppliers are asked about sustainability criteria during our ISO 9001 process

• Suppliers are asked to update their responses on a yearly basis

• This ensures we understand the capacity in our supply chain in order to deliver a sustainable exhibition

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Establish your vision

• What is your vision for sustainability?

• What are the most important aspects?

• What is the lifecycle of your exhibition?

• Are you willing to take a long-term costing approach?

• Are you willing to spend more for sustainable products or certification?

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Sustainability criteria

• Each individual exhibition is scored according to our sustainability criteria

• Categories correspond to the life-cycle of the exhibition and include:

Materials Procurement Resource-efficiency

Recyclable Re-usability Localism

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Sustainability Bingo

• Exploring sustainable design in practice

• Testing the criteria

• Match the words on your card as they appear on screen

• Shout “Full House” and win a prize!

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Flexibility

• Changeable displays

• Component parts

• Modular displays

The Ken Hawley Gallery, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield

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Substrates

• Recyclable materials

• FSC Certified

Ashdown Forest Visitor Centre

Crimdon, Durham Heritage Coast

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Life-cycle

• Energy saving

• Energy rated – LEDs

• Capital costs versus revenue savings

Winterbourne House & Gardens, Birmingham

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Durability

• Designed to last

• Maintain or replace?

• Localism

Durham Heritage Coast

Leeds Liverpool Canal

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Reuse

• Adapting existing displays

• Plan for future

PLB Exhibition Stand, M&H Show 2011

Museum of Wigan Life

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Piloting Sustainable Design

Prittlewell

Priory Museum

Southend-on-Sea

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Why as a service do we want to go green?

Southend Borough Council will set an

example by:

Reducingenergy

consumption

Using sustainable materials

Reducing our carbon

footprint

Making buildings

efficient & Cost Effective

Corporate Policy

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Why does it make sense for Museums to go green?

If any organisation is best placed to understand it is the Museum – it is at the heart of our philosophy

Conserve & Preserve

Protecting biodiversity

Education & developmen

t

Preserving objects for the future

Conservation not

restoration

Telling the story of

objects from the past

Fighting extinction

Lower costs

Evolution

Natural history &

preserving environment

s

Economically

sustainable

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What does this mean for the exhibition?

Improved imageGood quality

displays

Longer lasting

Looks aesthetically

pleasing

Flexible displays

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What does this mean for staff?

No impact on work loads Good quality displays

Nice environment

Improved image

Proud to be green /

Peace of mind

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What next?

Interested in finding out more?

Contact PLB:

Stand no. 40b

info@plbltd.com

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