Construction Waste Awareness event in NW

The North West Centre for Waste Management in partnership with UCLan are presenting a Free CIWM accredited Construction Waste Awareness Certificate event for Construction Companies
Wednesday 4th June 2008  9.30am – 4.00pm  University of Central Lancashire
This one day workshop has been designed specifically to address the issues arising from construction waste, and includes topics such [...]

can data centers power all homes …

How green is your data center? Stumbled upon an amazing post and comments over at The It Sanctuary
According to figures from IT market research company Forrester Research, a data centre with 2,500 servers - relatively small compared to many out there - will devour enough electricity over the course of one month to power 420,000 [...]

resource efficiency could save construction industry millions

The latest report from the EA (The Environment Agency Science Report - The economic and environmental benefits of resource efficiency in construction ) calls for better resource management in construction. For this to happen, the report recommends

newspaper house

Treehugger ( number 13 in the top 50 most powerful blogs according to the Observer on Sunday) carries the news of the London house built from discarded free newspapers that was revealed over the weekend - it took just 5 days to get the 150,000 papers!.  Read more here
Treehugger, which must be on everyones RSS [...]

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 [...]

waste management plans and carbon calculator event

Details of the Lancs Best Practice Club event on 12th Feb looking at sustainability targets, site waste management plans and carbon calculators are now available to download on the events page.  Fittingly the event will be held at the Solaris Centre in Blackpool

site waste management plans event 12 Feb

Irrespective of whether you are a client, contractor, developer, product supplier, facilities manager or consultant, the impact of the sustainability, carbon, energy and other performance targets being set for the industry will change the way you do business in a big way.
Lancashire Best Practice Construction club will be holding an early evening event on [...]

recycling rubbish CD’s as road surface material

Noted that troubled EMI over estimated the number of Robbie Williams Rudebox CD’s by a mere million. These are now reputedly to be shipped to China to be crushed for road surface material.
Typical of buyers over ordering, with the excess material being used as site access roads … but on a different scale.

coming soon … site waste management plans

With under three months to go before SWMP become mandatory on projects over £250,000, I was amazed to read the results of a survey, conducted last year by NetRegs suggesting that the construction industry is sleep walking into the legislation with two thirds of respondents (66%) saying they didn’t know what an SWMP is and [...]

Sustainability Code for non domestic buildings

Following the Code for housing which seems to be setting the sustaintainbility agenda the industry, the UKGBC UK Green Building Council today launched a report on behalf of the government that starts to set out an agenda for acheiving zero carbon non-domestic buildings by 2020
From the press release at UKGBC:
Key findings in the report are [...]