Posts Tagged ‘construction’

I popped along to the Building Centre last week for the launch of a report by CIMCIG, an organisation for marketing bods in construction. The group commissioned a report entitled The Commercial Value of Sustainability. It’s written by Jeremy Sumeray who has an industry marketing background as well a policy experience – most recently he [...]

I presented yesterday on our virtual events story yesterday at the PPA conference. It’s a useful exercise to look back at now two year’s worth experience in this field: defining what we’ve achieved so far and the challenges that still lie ahead. In the third slide of the presentation I offered some crucial points that [...]

I have particular reason to review the past decade, given that it was back in January 2000 that I began my career in construction and architecture journalism. From a trawl through the archive of Building I see that my first by-lined article was the not-so earth shattering news that a small practice called Pawson Williams [...]

So Copenhagen is nearly upon us. As I’ve been chronicling in the past few weeks there is now a real debate. Those that were either holding back, were wary or were waiting have emerged to question either the science behind climate change or the current, potentially soon to be agreed, responses to it. So some [...]

I can’t say I’ve been a huge fan of business networking site LinkedIn since its emergence as the leader in the field of Facebook for professionals. For me it was nothing more than a CV-uploading service, which in the past year has been particularly useful for those looking for new or alternative employment since the [...]

I’d share the upbeat assessment of Ecobuild from my colleague at Building Tom Lane. It seems to both appeal to a broad audience – from students to suits, hippies to head honchos – as well as achieve a central purpose of mainstreaming sustainable thinking across the fragmented world of construction. What also seemed to be [...]

Judging by my email inbox and communications with contacts it appears that the juggernaut that is Ecobuild will not driven off course by our current economic woes, if that is not a horribly inappropriate metaphor. As I wrote in an earlier post companies have been committed for some time to the event so perhaps 2010 [...]

I’ve avoided detailing quite how bad it is for the construction and property sectors at the moment for fear of depressing the hell out of both myself and my small (but perfectly formed) audience. But it’s impossible to avoid it. Choose your depressing statistic from the (now defunct) pick and mix section: eight building firms [...]

Just had a quick spin through the Tories energy policy paper. Lots of sensible ideas – decentralising energy supply, expanding EPCs and DECs to more buildings, feed-in tariffs, existing stock ideas etc etc. Cameron speaks about them below, believing that being Conservative and green are not mutually exclusive. And there’s a webchat tomorrow you can [...]

Article from BD, 19 December 2008
So change has come