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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Local Authorities, Green deal procurement, local supply chains and partnerships
DECC have issued Green Deal guidance for Local Authorities that suggests LA’s should champion the initiative to help drive economic growth, unlocking billions of pounds worth of investment, support local jobs and local supply chains Potential benefits to local authorities are likely to be: • new … Continue reading
Green Deal Help
I am often asked what can contracting organisation do to prepare for green deal. My response is, in line with the green deal awareness programmes we run: Work: understand green deal. How work will flow? Who will be the providers, … Continue reading
Green Deal and ECO Consultation Paper
The DECC Green Deal and ECO Consultation paper was issued on the 23rd Nov 2011 Download from here Comments and observations to follow once I have digested the 238 pages. Please add any comments of your own … … Continue reading
Preston Bloggers Award for fairsnape blog
Its always great to get acknowledgement for this blog, hence am delighted to have received recognition from EAOM, an online marketing agency in Chorley, Lancs, as worthy of their Preston Bloggers Award. Part of our blog training process for our clients is to show … Continue reading
Green Deal Assessor Standard issued for consultation
DECC have issued their draft standard ‘Specification for the provision of Green Deal Advisor Services‘ for consultation. The standard, albeit in draft throws more light on what Green Deal will eventually look like. From first read my comments: Useful terms … Continue reading
Reinvigorating built environment sustainability leadership
An excellent blog post on sustainability.com suggests what a reinvigorated agenda for change may look like. We could learn a lot from this, for new and reinvigorated leadership in sustainability within the Built Environment sector, particularly in the UK as … Continue reading
Green Deal November
*Updated 11/11/11* Seems Green Deal is high on my agenda for November! Here is a round up on ‘happenings’ and events: On the 2nd I attended an interesting Green Skills in construction event hosted by teh Guardian. I blogged here on the Great … Continue reading
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Tagged be2camp, BIM, Green Deal, GVis2011, LCBPC
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Can social media drive built environment sustainability?
Can social media drive built environment sustainability? Over the last few weeks I have been working with Ryan at the Construction Network and the team at Sustainability Now on an exciting project to bring social media discussions into the free … Continue reading
The Great Construction Green Reskilling
Last night I attended an interesting and informative “The future green skill needs of the construction industry” Round Table discussion, hosted by The Guardian. The panelists Mark Farrar, CITB, Brian Berry, FMB, David Bownass, WSP and Gareth Jones Carbon Zero UK, … Continue reading
GVis2011 Retrofit Reality
We are only a couple of days away from the Green Vision Retrofit Reality half day conference in Leeds. Once again the event will be streamed and blogged live and enabled for you to participate via twitter and the cover … Continue reading →