Posts Tagged ‘Building’

I have written a few posts in the past year or so on the state of journalism in the wake of the recession and burgeoning free digital content. There was plenty of navel gazing and head scratching that has gone on and continues in the trade (I currently have 106 bookmarks on my delicious account [...]

So I’m in rather frantic planning mode for virtual events right now. In particular there’s hopefully plenty of activity in and around Sustainability Now to satisfy those of you who just can’t get enough of debate and discussion around this issue. There will be a full conference programme this time – so not the mainly [...]

My job dictates that I get excited about digital, which I largely do. However it can pay to cast one’s eyes from a screen and be presented with one of those old fashioned things called a magazine (the existence of which partially pays for my salary). Professionally this usually means a five minute scan at [...]

I like many others am becoming worryingly addicted to the social media phenomenon that is Twitter. The reactions of some colleagues and friends is to pat me on the head and wonder about my sanity. The perception of the site as a home for online silliness and pointlessness is not helped by some reactionary coverage [...]

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:

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, [...]

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

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 [...]