Posted in built environment, construction, facilities management, sustainability, technology, web2.0, tagged Sustainability Now, The facilities show, Twitter on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Next week, the 12 – 15th May, sees a series of built environment ‘events’ in the UK:
Be2camp north in Liverpool 15th May (following on from the worlds first unconference for built environment)
Sustainability Now (13-14th ) Buildings Virtual Conference and Exhibition
The Facilities Show NEC Birmingham (12-14th)
All of these will use twitter as a ‘backchannel’ to enable off [...]
Posted in collaborative working, comment, construction, design, facilities management, tagged be2camp, BIM, be2campnorth, FIM, FM, autodesk on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The recent white paper BIM and Facilities Management from Autodesk, makes the case to extend Building IM to Facilities IM(or at least to include)
Building information modeling (BIM) is changing the way buildings are designed and constructed-but is it changing how they’re operated and maintained? Do the benefits of BIM extend to facilities management? This whitepaper focuses on ways that facility [...]
Posted in built environment, carbon, construction, education, green business, housing, improvement, links, politics, resilience, schools, sustainability, tagged Climate Change, fuel poverty, green collar economy, SRDN, sustainable communities, zero carbon on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Items of interest to built environment + natural environment + sustainable communities filtered from the Sustainability Development Research Network (SDRN) update
Engaging Places
A new initiative has been launched by CABE and English Heritage to help every school exploit the world’s biggest teaching resource; ‘Engaging Places’ will champion and support teaching and learning through the whole built [...]
Posted in construction, green buildings, sustainability, tagged greenbuild, zero carbon on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heres an interesting article that Google alerts brought to my attention: Future green construction may follow European models in the Portand Journal of Commerce.
As the building industry searches for the next big thing, the likelihood increases that builders, developers, architects and engineers will continue pushing the boundaries of what constitutes sustainable design – and they may look to [...]
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, facilities management, futures, green buildings, legislation, links, quality, route2zero, sustainability, technology, tagged DCLG, facilities management, zero, zero carbon on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a post on this blog noted at the end of last year, the definition of zero carbon buildings is currently under consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
I am in full agreement with Casey over at Carbon Limited who blogs for a call to arms on this one, this consultation is so [...]
Posted in News, built environment, comment, construction, green buildings, links, sustainability, tagged be2camp, Code for Sustainable Building, CSB, UKGBC on December 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A while ago I posted on the UKGBC task force UKGBC task group too important to be so narrow? and how it should embrace an open collaborative wiki style approach to the development of the Code for Sustainable Buildings.
This code will be so influential and far reaching that it cannot be developed behind closed doors, [...]
Posted in News, comment, construction, sustainability, waste, tagged waste, Sustainable Construction Strategy, Jane Kennedy, letsrecycle, Site Waste Management Plans, SWMP on November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Waste and recycling minister Jane Kennedy has revealed that tackling business waste is to be a “top priority”
as reported on www.letsrecycle.com
Ms Kennedy explained that the Government would now develop proposals aimed at supporting businesses to look at ways they could reduce, reuse and recycle their waste, with a particular focus falling on small businesses. She added [...]
Posted in best practice, collaborative working, construction, improvement, links, procurement, project management, web2.0, tagged lean construction, building information modelling, lean on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whilst sharpening up my knowledge on the latest lean in construction thinking I came across this excellent article by Karen Wilhelm which mashes up collaborative working, lean, BIM, 3D and 4D design, collaborative contracts, value chains and more. The brief for Karens paper reads:
Lean in the construction industry offers some lessons for lean manufacturers. [...]
Posted in comment, construction, futures, links, tagged construction futures, shaping tomorrow on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Todays Trend alert from Shaping Tomorrow focuses on Changing Construction
Pre-fabricated Buildings
Author: Sheila Moorcroft
Could the announcement that a large part of the 2012 London Olympic Stadium may be deconstructed and sent off to Chicago for the 2016 Olympics trigger renewed interest in offsite, pre-fabricated construction techniques? Possibly yes; but a lot of regulation will [...]
a transition view of the uk transition housing plan
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, housing, politics, refurbishment, resilience, sustainability, technology, transport, tagged transition towns, zero, zero carbon on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A welcomed and important perspective on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was posted by Rob Hopkins on the Transition blog:
After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there are a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled [...]
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