UKGBC to stick with BREEAM
Phil Clark over at zero champion has an interview with Peter Rogers of UKGBC (UK Green Building Council). It’s a good read, and I was glad to see Rogers’ thoughts on UKGBC and BREEAM. In the states, the USGBC backs LEED, the main international rival to BREEAM (in the middle east projects tend to be either). With the imminent launch of UKGBC at EcoBuild at the end of the month, there had been speculation as to whether BREEAM would be ousted in favour of LEED. Rogers thinks not.
Rogers also has reservations about the applicability of renewables on a building by building basis in city locations, including wind (which I have covered for the domestic market here).
He also advocates offices which rise in temperature with the weather, rather than sticking at a set 22ºC, something I covered back in May here, when it was reported that RIBA wanted BCO (British Council of Offices) to raise the temperature to 24ºC.
Unfortunately, I’m not going to make it down to EcoBuild, but I am trying to persuade others to go and do some spying for me…
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