An awards event inside the Science Museum, produced throughout in ReBoard, a sustainable paper-based board. One material for the whole build. There is no impact report for this project, so this page carries no figures.
PA Consulting · Science Museum · London, UK · 2022 · Finance and professional services · Design; Production; Project Management
PA Consulting runs the Raspberry Pi Awards, and the 2022 event was held at the Science Museum in London in May. The brief was an awards presentation and reception inside a working museum, with the sustainability of the build treated as a requirement rather than a preference. Pie Factory's answer was to produce the entire event in one material: ReBoard, a sustainable paper-based board. That decision covered the event build throughout. It is the reason this project is worth reading, and it is also the only thing about it that can be stated without qualification, because no impact report was produced.
The whole event was produced in ReBoard. ReBoard is a paper-based board made from recycled fibres and recyclable in the same stream as ordinary paper. It cuts flat, takes direct print, and builds up into rigid structures without a frame, which is what makes a single-material event build possible rather than a claim. Used as the only build material, it removes the usual mix of timber, composite panel, vinyl and fixings from a build, and with it the usual end of life problem: at the end of the event the build is paper. What the record does not contain is an item-by-item schedule of what was made. There is no impact report, and the elements, dimensions, print method and quantities are not written down anywhere citable. They sit with the project team, and they are worth retrieving, because a single-material awards build inside the Science Museum is a stronger story with the objects named.
Three constraints are inherent to the venue and none is documented in the project record, so they are named here as things to confirm rather than described as solved. A heritage museum building sets limits on what can be fixed to floors, walls and structures. Access and build windows in a museum are typically overnight or same day, around public opening hours. Floor loading limits apply in galleries holding collections. What the build window actually was, and how each constraint applied, needs confirming with the project team.
This project was not carbon measured. No impact report exists for it and it is absent from the impact archive altogether. There is no carbon figure, no waste figure, no reuse rate and no material weight, and none is estimated here. The only sustainability document on file is a pre-event proposal listing intended KPIs, and intended KPIs are not results. Nothing from that document is quoted as an outcome, and no figure may be added to this page from it. What can be said is what was done: the event was produced throughout in ReBoard at the Science Museum in London in May 2022. If a footprint is ever wanted, it would have to be reconstructed retrospectively from purchase and logistics records, and it should be labelled as a reconstruction.