zero carbon ‘floating’ development for Preston

Green, innovative and zero carbon project development on our doorstep in Preston, Lancs, !

The RIBA have recently awarded a zero carbon design as the visitor center at the new Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve in Preston, to regenerate a former quarry site into a major visitor attraction.
The project called “A Floating World”, consists of [...]

New Lancashire Best Practice Events

Details and registration information for Lancashire Best Practice events have been posted up to the events page.
Youthbuild Elevate Event - 11th March
CDM event 12 March
Women In Construction event - How to Influence Others 10 April

Women into work events NW

I have been asked to communicate the events being held through Elevate and Women Into Work over the next month or so.
The training is free and is available to all female staff within the built environment sector - including accounts, reception , administration, trades, office and professional.
Training on offer includes:
Communications
Managing Safely
Mentoring?
Positive Action
Get more [...]

Carbon management, route to zero and waste management event

Over 70 people from the regional construction, fm and energy sector attended last nights Lancashire Best Practice Club event at the Solarus Center in Blackpool.  The event , in two parts, covered sustainability, targets for the built environment  and carbon issues from Martin Brown and in the second half site waste management plans from Colin [...]

Route 2 Zero - new page added …

Route2Zero
A new page has been added to this blog to ‘launch’ a fairsnape facilitated approach to moving towards zero …

BME Businesses - No Limits

The following Press Release was posted into the Steering Group pages by Andrew Platten at Elevate, but needs a wider distribution. Any other good news out there in the Lancashire / North West?
Introducing New Companies
Construction companies from across Pennine Lancashire came together to share their experiences and contacts to boost the industry. The [...]

Green spires or greenwash?

Universities UK today published Green Spires, a very rosy picture of what academia is doing within the world of becoming green. The report, full of case studies of great activities from around the UK Universities is a must read with many of the innovations related to the built environment.
However, Bibi van der Zee writing [...]

New Liverpool school seeks ‘Very Good’ BREEAM

Details of the state of the art sustainable design (and construction) for Liverpool Lower Lee Special school were posted on Building website earlier this week. (Story, pictures and strategy)
The school is only targetting a Very Good BREEAM level accreditation - beacuase, according to Mouchels architect “An BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating would only be achievable with a [...]

Free low carbon building event

The North West Sustainability in Built Environment Education forum is holding a presentation and workshop on Low Carbon Buildings at UCLAN (University of Central Lancs - Preston) on Feb 1st.    Download details from the Events page.
The Sustainability in Built Environment Education forum is a mixture of industry and academics looking at improving the [...]

New Preston landmark office building revealed…

 From the BD website,  (the Architects Website)
Moxon Architects has won an RIBA competition to design a £6 million landmark office building in Preston, Lancashire.
The firm beat CJ Lim’s Studio 8 Architects, Maxwan, Piercy Conner, New York-based Stephen Yablon Architects, and Hamburg’s LH Architekten in the contest.
The winning scheme, Moxon’s biggest win to date, [...]