Innovative performance

The key to meeting rising equipment costs is innovation to improve efficiency and maximise building performance, says Tom Harmswoth, Managing Director of WeMaintain
Last year, the curator of an exhibition on rubbish at the Design Museum in London argued that we were living in the ‘waste age’. Waste, he said, was central to our way of life. The ancient habit of creating things to last, and of repairing and maintaining, had been supplanted by a culture of replacement: our first instin