For each 250 that join, I’ll donate £1 to solve Climate Change through C&C

As Dave Hampton over at Carbon Coach says:  ”Take a look at this new group - its membership has soared from 0 to 1000 in just 72 hours - please consider joining and helping”
I endorse Dave’s comment and urge you to look at the groups intentions and commitments - and consider joining - the group [...]

Think Debate - whats your top 10?

As part of the Think 07 event this week, the Think web site is running a number of debates that should hear your voice and opinion - see below - and if you do have a top 10 actions we should be taking to address climate change and carbon issues in our industries -  then [...]

They bid to win

Some 25 construction professionals attended the Best Practice Clubs Bidding to Win event last Thursday that provided a free taster session of the Evolution-IP Biding to Win course. As Roger
Jones, the club secretary said:
“delegates took away expert advice that can be applied immediately to improve bids”
Two related events are planned through the club:
May 24th [...]

Free Steps to Heaven

Picked this up from Mel Starrs at Elemental this morning.
Property week have made their news and searchable database free on line at propertyweek.com As Property Week say:

“News, gossip and data are ‘must haves’ for property people the world over. Today Property Week brings you all three every day FREE through our new [...]

BoKlok

If that sounds like a product from Ikea to you, then you are correct. The name BoKlok means “smart living” in Swedish, and is Ikea’s approach to prefabricated housing. Last month, it received planning permission for 36 dwellings in St. James Village, Gateshead.
Live Smart@Home, a subsidiary of the Home property group, will oversee construction.
Since [...]

Building the Future - build as we mean to go on ….

Last Wednesdays (April 18th) Guardian Society supplement was a must read series of articles under the theme of Building the Future. The supplement, a collaboration with Think 07 addressed Sustainable Building for the 21st Century.
Copies of the supplement are available from Guardian Professional
Introduction
The built environment accounts for 50% of all the UK carbon emissions. [...]

Construction waste plans to be compulsory

Just look at these statistics from Defra:
13% of all the solid materials delivered to construction sites goes unused
Each year 400 million tonnes of solid materials are used in the UK construction industry but only two-thirds is added to the building stock.
The rest is sent directly to landfill
In addition waste crime is stopping us from achieving [...]

Free event that could radically improve your business.

Bidding To Win
Our next event is on the 26th April 2007 and well subscribed so far - there may be a few places left for the afternoon session though .
Details on the Events page of this blog

United Nations: Buildings Can Play a Key Role in Combating Climate Change

New UN report underlines how often simple and low cost energy savings measures can help deliver the Kyoto targets and beyond. The right mix of appropriate government regulation, greater use of energy saving technologies and behavioural change can substantially reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the building sector which accounts for 30-40 % of global [...]

Energy Performance of Buildings

From this months Business Eco’s Environmental Legislation e-zine services: http://www.eco.uk.com/
The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 were enacted on the 23rd March.
These regulations will enter into force in stages. They implement a range of initiatives from the Energy Performance of
Buildings Directive, relating to energy performance certificates, air-conditioning system inspections [...]