Posted in 1:5:200, carbon, comment, design, energy, facilities management, sustainability, technology, tagged facilities management, zero carbon on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reading many items and articles on the carbon issues that the built environment faces in the coming years, I have jotted a number of random thoughts in google notebook, which may one day be useful ’spin’ for example:
…almost every building uses more energy than design calculations …… technology alone is not enough …… design 20%, [...]
Posted in architecture, built environment, collaborative working, community based fm, design, knowledge, sustainability, tagged Architecture for Humanity, building codes on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Received the following from Architecture for Humanity …. a great opportunity to share knowledge and skills collaboratively on line for the greater good.
We love to build. Therefore we are obsessed with global and local building codes. A few years ago, 1760 BC to be exact, the Code of Hammurabi was the first set of [...]
Posted in News, comment, design, facilities management, green buildings, links, refurbishment, sustainability, tagged Communities and Rural Affairs, energy performance certificates, EPC, facilities management, Guardian, hall of shame, public buildings on October 3, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The UK Communities and Local Government government website states
Our buildings are responsible for almost 50 per cent of the UK’s energy consumption and carbon emissions.
October 1st marked the date by which UK public buildings have to display their energy performance for buildings and facilities as an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate). Currently around 18,000 buildings, including [...]
Posted in built environment, collaborative working, comment, design, literature, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged fillthathole, Fixmystreet, GridWorks, wikitecture on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest issue of Grid Works has been issued and is available for download from here or from vendors on the Public Works area within Second Life.
Once again CivilE Writer (editor) has pulled together an excellent journal that illustrates how second life and other virtual worlds can be used to improve the real world built [...]
Posted in comment, design, tagged monsoon, water on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just as I read in the Guardian about European monsoons, Gridworks colleague Pam over in Illinois blogs on her Public Works site about dealing with water quantity and a one in 500 year event.
Questions to be asked of our storm drainage perhaps?
Leo Hickman:
But discuss it we must, because talk of a “European monsoon” is increasing, [...]
Posted in News, architecture, built environment, comment, design, greenwash, sustainability, tagged CABE on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Guardian reported on Saturday on the CABE criticism of architects and developers who are, according to CABE ignoring the threat of climate change and failing to address concerns over sustainability, (Based on design reviews of more than 700 large construction projects over the last two years that concluded that fewer than 10 made sustainability [...]
Posted in carbon, carbon calculator, design, links on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A pre-design carbon calculator has been launched in a bid to boost the green credentials of the construction industry. The free online tool will allow the industry to evaluate sustainable options at the earliest stages of construction and covers various building sectors. Developed by Faithful+Gould, the tool will ensure costs associated with carbon saving techniques [...]
Posted in architecture, comment, design, ecological, green buildings, innovation, second life, virtual worlds, tagged eco, eco city, International Eco Code Park, usabilty, zero on April 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A search over a coffee, starting from Pam’s link (here) led me to zeroHouse.
Now this may be hitting a lot of boxes on the zero list, may be an architects vision or dream, but to call eco (as in ‘eco’ =’home’) and a place to live?
Does this primary school Lego construction have a soul – [...]
Posted in 1:5:200, architecture, built environment, comment, community based fm, design, events, facilities management, green buildings, housing, links, second life, sustainability, virtual worlds, tagged Center for Facilities Management, Eco City 2008, Greenbuild 08, Think 08, usability, West Coast Green on April 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It seems we are becoming awash with green buildings, eco homes and eco towns.
There are some great sites out there with green architecture eye candy (check out Mad Architecture for example).
We have some major and significant conferences and events on the horizon – from the international Eco City 2008, Green Build 2008 and West Coast [...]
Facilities Information Modeling
Posted in collaborative working, comment, construction, design, facilities management, tagged autodesk, be2camp, be2campnorth, BIM, FIM, FM 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 [...]
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