Following a rather frenetic and frenzied day at Ecobuild last Wednesday I was hoping to piece together a considered and thoughtful piece together over the weekend. Failure. So instead I will simply brain dump some notes from the day in a list format:
Will Eco part from Build? Regardless of your view on the emergence and [...]
Spring is here. Time to get over our post-Copenhagen hangovers and kick back into action. Ecobuild starts today and, more significantly we have the introduction of the Pay as You Save policy by the Government. I’ve only seen early new reports on this, such as in the Telegraph, so we’ll have to see the detail. [...]
After a relatively quiet month or so we’re now firmly in events season. There’s two of them to kick the year off , BSEC, the schools exhibition and conference run by my company, this week followed swiftly by the behemoth that is Ecobuild thre working days later. A chance then for something of a [...]
After the heady mix of good feeling, good intentions and good looking technologies comes something of a hangover. It’s easy to get carried away with optimism after Ecobuild, such was the positivity on display. UK Green Building Council chief executive Paul King fed on this during a speech on the first day, piggy-backing on the [...]
In an economic crisis sustainability is even more important
We need to tackle the existing stock
How much is it for a coffee again?
In the current climate it comes down to cost and returns
What’s Alastair Campbell doing here?
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 [...]
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 [...]
