Posts Tagged ‘BRE’

Part one of two guest posts by architecture student Benjamin Kinch
As part of my architecture course I am currently conducting an investigation in how BREEAM equates to theories of true sustainability.
Initial correspondence with BREEAM assessors, industry, architects, contractors etc. caused the investigation topic to look at issues such as aesthetics, functionality and social issues [...]

Further major developments after my piece on the Green Guide a couple of weeks back. BD reports today of a strongly worded attack on the tenets of the guide by the Good Homes Alliance. I’ve seen a draft of the GHA report, due to be released next week and it’s pretty damning. The authors [...]

Article from last week’s BD
Much bad feeling seems to be emerging around a recently published guide for specifying sustainable materials. The newly updated BRE Green Guide was released with some fanfare to the market back in June, offering a vital resource to design teams grappling with requirements for the Code for Sustainable Homes and BRE’s [...]

There wasn’t an entry on this (although there is one on the BRE). Until now. With assistance from my colleague Ed Sexton, who’s a bit of a Wikipedia nut (he recently created an entry on obscure 1990s band the Three Amigos) I’ve started the ball rolling. It’s rather pithier than the LEED entry, which probably [...]