We managed to pull off another pretty successful virtual event last week. Education Now offered plenty of new content and discussion around the still burgeoning schools market. One serious point from this, and then the promised-in-the-headline bit of bad taste:
Posts under ‘Events’
Ecobuild expectations
It’s coming to the time of the year when you start to look and plan for the next. At this particular time it’s something akin to staring into an abyss - how bad is it going to get in 2009? we ask ourselves. And for those wondering about whether sustainability is going to be flung [...]
Sustainable schools virtual event
Shameless plug time. Building and BD is holding a virtual event similar to the Sustainability Now show that took place in the summer. It’s called Education Now and will cover schools, further education and university buildings, a market that is holding up (for now) in the current dire condition for the construction industry. There’s videos, [...]
Environmental-ish exhbitions
A few days off in London, which allows you to actually go to things that are on rather than just read about them in listing pages. Two exhibitions that are worth a visit - Cold War Modern at the V&A and Smoke at the Pump House Gallery, situated in the heart of Battersea Park(this is [...]
Code 46 and the survival of cities
I attended a screening of the film Code 46 at the Barbican last week. Released back in 2003 it’s achieved something of a cult status in the past five years, especially in architectural circles. It’s directed by Michael Winterbottom (pictured far right), one of the most prolific and idiosyncratic film-makers in the UK right now.
The [...]
From EPCs to drug barons
It’s always nice to be surprised during an event. I was chairing the Economics of Sustainability conference last week - worthy and important but, it could be argued, a tad dull. We’re approaching lunch and it’s gone 1pm. It’s a Monday and I’m beginning to flag a little, having had to kick off the day [...]
Battle’s blog
I had an excellent chinwag with Guy Battle, founder of engineer Battle McCarthy at the Building Sustainability Awards on Tuesday. He’s been getting more interested in online as a form of communication and sharing ideas. I’m glad to report he’s taken the first step by starting a blog, and has immediately jumped into some meaty [...]
The legislation debate
The question about how best to embed green principles into construction - the carrot or the stick - has been an ongoing theme of this blog. It reared its head this week again at two Building magazine events - the first a conference, the second while I was interviewing winners of the Building Sustainability awards [...]
Paul King’s speech at the Building Sustainability Awards
Paul King chief executive of the UK Green Building, gave a brief speech at last night’s Building Sustainability Awards. Here it is:
A question on many people’s lips, including journalists from the trade press, recently has been, ‘will sustainability be the next casualty of the credit crunch?’
Life is very tough out there at the moment, and [...]
Chris Addison and his BREEAM gags
So BREEAM has now finally made it. If a prominent comedian is making jokes about something then it must be on the right lines. So worry not over at the BRE at the battering you received at the hands of Chris Addison, who spoke at last night’s Building Sustainability Awards. The star of one of [...]
