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 [...]
After what fellow blogger Mel Starrs described yesterday as “a funny old week” involving a range of heated discussions it was refreshing to hear from a man of action. Step forward then Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, who gave a lecture last night at the RSA. Sinclair’s work, which was described by RSA [...]
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 [...]
So the wheels are coming off the PFI movement. The government’s solution to building a lot of stuff we need without having to fork out too much of its own cash is now at a crossroads – the latest analysis I saw on this was in yesterday’s Observer. Given that the middle word in PFI [...]
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 [...]
My ‘journey’ to full grumpy old man status is helped immeasurably about the use and mis-use of language. I have annoyingly put journey within quote marks because that word now seems to have become a word that describes the path that reality TV stars appear to take to… become slightly less bad singers/dancers or less/more [...]
In my new role as supposed digital guru I’ve subscribed to the Guardian Tech Weekly podcast. It fits the formula of most of the output from that media stable – roundtable discussions with a fixed stable of journalists as well as a few reports and interviews thrown in. The content span is pretty broad – [...]
Article from BD, 19 December 2008
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