The UK Government has come under criticism recently for not tackling environmental issues with enough vigour to be seen as a role model or exemplar, and failing to meet its own targets.
See: the Sustainable Development Commission report two thirds of departments were not on track to meet the target of reducing emissions by 12.5 per [...]
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eco facilities management for government?
Posted in carbon, facilities management, procurement, sustainability, technology, tagged eco-fm on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
best practice procurement and support
Posted in best practice, comment, events, procurement, sustainability, web2.0, women in construction, tagged ACCROS, Bid to Win, bidding, BSRIA, footprintfriends, LCBPC, sustainable stars on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Lancashire BPC event last Thursday saw a good number of organisations exhibiting and discussing procurement and support issues with around 70 delegates. The objective of the day was to allow organisations in the Lancashire area to showcase their procurement requirements and or areas of support, and for delegates to find out their customers requirements and [...]
collaboration makes construction lean
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. [...]
sustainable construction commitments launched
Posted in IT, News, built environment, collaborative working, comment, construction, facilities management, innovation, procurement, sustainability, waste, tagged 1:5:200, eco-towns, responsible sourcing, Sustainabile Construction Strategy on June 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The UK Government today launches its Sustainable Construction Strategy, with a whole raft of targets, measures and reporting mechanisms. It seems like it has been a long time coming, the consultation period being most of last year. Construction minister Shriti Vadera comments “Our aim is to become a world leader in sustainable [...]
wanted … eco home builder
Posted in comment, education, futures, housing, innovation, links, open source, procurement, second life, technology, virtual worlds, tagged Brand Woodin, Dunster, eco homes, Hanham Hall, Lasalle, Level 6, Pam Renoir, Public Works Island, second life, TEEX on April 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I have for a while now been exploring Second Life’s contribution to the built environment – on themes of collaboration, education and usability.
One of these ideas is to create a UK Level 6 Eco Home within second life to use as an educational device. A meeting a month or so ago with Pam Broviak [...]
JCT legally binding sustainability contracts?
Posted in News, built environment, collaborative working, comment, legislation, procurement, project management, sustainability on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To reinforce that we cannot address sustainability, carbon reduction and waste management from a hearts and minds, save the planet for future generations, common sense point of view and approach, JCT have started a consultation process as to which sustainability items should be made contractual within JCT forms of contract, as in legally binding commitments.
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collaborative city design and prequal requirements …
Posted in best practice, blogs, collaborative working, comment, community based fm, design, education, energy, facilities management, knowledge, links, procurement, tagged merton rule, transition towns on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Worldchanging suggested in a recent post a collaborative institute with classes for every city (US) to
… offer education and examples about urban design fundamentals – what makes a public (space) work, what makes a street pedestrian-friendly, what makes a neighborhood livable – to those who are actually zoning, approving, building, and planning our cities … [...]
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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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