Posts Tagged ‘BD’

So two weeks away from Copenhagen and environmentalism is finally sparking real and sustained argument. After nearly three years of writing this blog it feels like real dispute has finally come to the surface. After a period of cosy consensus that we “must act” sharing tips on curbing your carbon impact and sighing at pictures [...]

The past week has seen a bout of navel gazing amongst probably the two crucial professions at the front end of dealing with energy use in buildings, namely architects and services engineers. In the architecture corner David Nixon, originally a founder of influential firm Future Systems, issued a rallying call to the profession to take [...]

Our company is now, as with most of the media industry, truly ensconced in a debate over the value of editorial content. And by value I mean price. Media leaders and commentators are awash with words and opinions on the dire effect of the current recession and changes in our consumption of news on high [...]

One of the most intriguing sessions at last week’s Ecobuild event was a debate on the fate of the Robin Hood Gardens on the Wednesday. This East London council estate, designed by Alison Peter and Smithson and completed in 1972, has attracted plenty of attention since a very well publicised BD campaign to list [...]

Interesting update on my post earlier in the week on PFI. BD columnist Paul Morrell puts forward a modest proposal for the government to adopt in relation to the Building Schools for the Future programme. He worries about Whitehall’s commitment to Keynesian principles of spending our way of the recession , compared to the reality [...]

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: