Posted in blogs, sustainability on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Prompted by a tweet from Paul this morning I have been reading back through the excellent informative posts on his HipConsultant Blog
In addition, since the end of 2008 HIP-Consultant.co.uk has been on twitter to
Update followers with articles published both on our blog and at Ezines.
Update about news from HIP-Consultant.co.uk
Detail related UK Property News of interest and followers hopefully will appreciate.
Find [...]
Posted in Blogroll, architecture, blogs, built environment, tagged blogging, blogs, justpractising on January 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Great to see new blogs being created that address issues relating to the built environment and web 2.0 ’stuff’
Fellow twitter Su Butcher has joined the blogosphere with justpractising:
So here it is. A blog about architects.
There are three things I want to do with this blog, things I have been doing elsewhere on the internet for [...]
Posted in blogs, comment, housing, sustainability, tagged energy performance certificates, EPC, They Work for Us on November 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Fellow bloggers Phil at ZeroChampion and Adrian at McFilter have commented recently on the feedback from their EPC (Energy Performance Certificates) assessments and made the observation that the recommendations do nothing more than suggest low energy lighting. I hear the same from friends who have undertaken EPC’s recently and asked me what can they [...]
Posted in News, admin, blogs, built environment, collaborative working, events, second life, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged be2camp, web2.0 on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BE2Camp, 10 October, London
Web 2.0 meets the UK construction industry at a novel new event,
BE2camp, to be held on Friday 10 October at the Building Centre in London.
Having been part of the (international) planning team behind this event, I am delighted that we now have some details confirmed. If you fancy becoming part of [...]
Posted in blogs, comment, tagged blogging, Climate Champions, G8, Twitter on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Impressed that our Foreign Secretary blogs to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office blog, FCO Blog , and these are picked up through twitter, Downing Street and HMGov as a means to communicating. Through this we can keep in touch with G8 summit, not only on the main issues but also on background stuff, like the [...]
Posted in News, admin, blogs, comment, isite radar, links, tagged Agressive FM, air conditioning, be2camp, benchmarkwalks, Climate Change, coal, cycling, eco-towns, solar, Sustainable Construction Strategy on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week was a busy one so not too much posting here, but below are a few of the items that caught my eye
Bristol is to become the first cycle city with 11 others – York, Stoke, Blackpool, Cambridge, Chester, Colchester, Leighton Buzzard, Southend, Shrewsbury, Southport and Woking – named as demonstration areas [...]
Posted in blogs, events, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged GridWorks, Public Works Island on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Friend and colleague Pam Broviak from the Public Works Group in SL, GridWorks and LaSalle Illinois, has just posted an item on her blog regarding our planned orientation day on June 28th. Join us for an introduction and guided tour. UK times and a programme are still to be confirmed, but it should be possible [...]
Posted in blogs, carbon, comment, green buildings, housing, route2zero, tagged code level 6, zero carbon on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There have been some very worthwhile and considered articles and comments on the definition of and feasibility of zero carbon recently – take a look at Mels post .. and Phils post for excellent round ups and for good technical comment take a look at CarbonLimited from Casey
The difference in opinions and views is [...]
on going local – part one
Posted in BREEAM, LEED, blogs, built environment, comment, procurement, resilience, route2zero, sustainability, transport, tagged BREEAM, Hanham Hall, LEED, transition towns on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mel Starrs over at Elemental has a great and useful article on local resources as seen from the LEED and BREEAM perspectives. Local materials, for local people (or a review of LEED credit MR5.1) Essential reading for those using these standards and grapling with the concept of local resources.
And yet there is another local resource debate emerging that [...]
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