So what future then post tomorrow for the sustainable quangos? I’m thinking the main ones that you and I come up against regularly: the Carbon Trust, the Energy Saving Trust and WRAP. Climate change minister Ed Miliband pledged to keep the first two whilst on a green road show last Friday which I attended. The [...]
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Green quangos under fire
The question of the future of construction and architecture quangos has been hovering around my mind for some months, given that public spending is under such scrutiny. The word now appears to denote waste of money amongst many, largely populist, circles. BD ran a front page splash some weeks back indicating that the Tories had [...]
Sustainability Now again
The second Sustainability Now virtual event will soon be upon us. The world has changed considerably since we ran the first one back in July of last year but I’m confident that appetite for content, discussion and debate on the issue of green building and design is still considerable. The success of Ecobuild back in [...]
