Archive for May 30th, 2006
Lessons to be learnt from BedZed
BedZed, Bill Dunster’s pioneering zero-carbon development has been beset by a number of well publicised problems in delivering the vision. For the full details see the piece in the Guardian. The most interesting point to me is that the development has been a success ’socially’ - always one of the hardest aspects of sustainability to [...]
Review - A sustainability checklist for developments (BR 436)
A debate I often have with folk is what constitutes sustainability in construction? Carbon and M&E is only one part of it.
The framework given in the BRE publication BR 436 ‘A sustainability checklist for developments’ gives a fantastic starting point for educating clients as to what sustainability can encompass. It takes the 4 themes [...]
