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 facilities management, tagged facilities management, su butcher, Twitter on February 24, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Post UPDATE:
A twitterleague group has been created at http://www1.twitterleague.com/view_league/181 - this may not be the ideal method in the long run but a good starting point to identify those in FM who use twitter. I can see the definition of facilities management may well be discussed again as we have fm’s, architects, construction people and property managers [...]
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 Local News, comment, energy, facilities management, sustainability, transport, tagged facilities management on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Indication that carbon management is becoming a key element of the facilities management role is evident through the Guardian article Cut and Run which focuses on UCLAN’s excellence performance in obtaining the Carbon Trust Standard.
The Carbon Trust says that universities and higher education institutes spend more than £200m each year on energy, and emit 3.2m tonnes of carbon [...]
Posted in collaborative working, comment, facilities management, links, web2.0, tagged Communities of Practice, CoP on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week I find myself involved with and or facilitating four communities of practice (CoP) , two new and getting started like the Leeds Sustainability Forum and Green Drinks Lancashire ( which after the second ‘gathering’ is becoming a useful green business network) one well established like the BAE FM CoP, and the Constructing Excellence [...]
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, 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, comment, facilities management, sustainability, web2.0, tagged blogging, Code for Sustainable Building, FMB, G4C, NFB, RIBApedia, Sponge, Strategy for Sustainable Construction, Tranisition Towns, Twitter, UKGBC, wiki on September 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has announced the panel of experts that will shape the Code for Sustainable Buildings to complement the government’s consultation on its target to make all new buildings zero-carbon from 2019.
The task group comprises:
• Bill Bolsover, chief executive, Aggregate Industries;
• John Connaughton, partner, Davis Langdon;
• Ian Coull, chief executive, Segro;
• John Frankiewicz, chief executive, Willmott [...]
Posted in facilities management, links, web2.0, tagged be2camp, facilities management, Twitter on September 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There has been a welcomed increase in Twitter from uk construction recently. New to this world is:
the UK construction magazine Construction News has a twitter @CNplus with deputy editor Nina Lovelace having a twitter account at @nina_lovelace
New Civil Engineer, now also has a twitter presence at @NCEmagazine and
Constructing Excellence has now [...]
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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