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 built environment, comment, events, technology, web2.0, women in construction, tagged Ada Lovelace, be2camp, be2campnorth, Suw Charman-Anderson on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am delighted that Suw Charman-Anderson (Social Techology Consultant, Guardian writer and twitter-er) will be talking at be2campnorth on the 15th May in Liverpool on the inspiration of Ada Lovelace
(Well actually Suw will be presenting from home via web and video link ups so that she can attend (as in walk to) another conference [...]
Posted in events, sustainability, technology, web2.0, tagged BREEAM, ecobuild, passivhaus, Sustainability Now, virtual conference on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phil Clarke at Building Mag @zerochamp has asked me to be a champion for the forthcoming Building magazine’s Sustainability Now virtual event taking place 13 and 14 May.
Still awaiting details, but I will be online in the discussion lounge on the 14th May and look forward to chatting with you there (and hopefuly drinking virtual champagne with Mel and [...]
Posted in built environment, comment, improvement, innovation, technology, tagged complexity theory, edge of chaos, emergence, management systems, simple rules, Twitter on March 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It seems everyone is trying to understand and analyse twitter at the moment, so after nearly a year of twittering , here are my thoughts:
Perhaps it is a little more than coincidence that Twitter has been named after our feathered friends, as it is very close, in my mind, to the classic edge of chaos example [...]
Posted in comment, greenwashing, housing, legislation, links, route2zero, sustainability, technology, tagged code level 6, Twitter, zero carbon, zero carbon hub on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday I sat in on a Zero Carbon Hub consultation event relating to the defining-zero-carbon-homes-presentation2zero carbon definition for buildings. I did manage to send some tweets via twitter during the session, and here, I have pulled these together to give a view on the consultation paper.
The event was not quite what I was expecting, as [...]
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 comment, futures, knowledge, open source, technology, web2.0 on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“There’s a clear direction … away from people thinking, ‘This is my PC, this is my hard drive,’ to ‘This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.’”
Occasionally you come across a quote that reinforces up what you have been trying to communicate for ages, such is the [...]
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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