Archive for February, 2007
What’s the collective noun for BREEAM assessments?
BRE have rebranded BREEAM and the new look website is here. Notable changes include the breeam:international and breeam:multi-residential (formerly bespoke ecohomes) schemes. And ecohomes is now known as breeam:ecohomes (until April, when CSH will take over).
And apparently the collective noun for BREEAM is a family. I’m sure we could have come up [...]
Green Options - a community blog
Joining the ranks of other group authored green slanted blogs (including Treehugger and Gristmill) comes a newcomer Green Options. I recognise a few of the writers, such as Jeff from sustainablog, Preston from Jetson Green and Amy from It’s the environment stupid.
It’s early days yet - the blog is only a week or so [...]
ENR podcasts
ENR (Engineering News Record) has a special sustainability issue which can be read online here. I particularly like the timeline (pdf) - looks like a game of snakes and ladders…
They also have podcasts which can be subscribed to here. Episodes are not particularly regular - there’s around 20 over the past 18 months.
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Drafting a report using mindmapping
I’ve been using Freemind for both work and study recently. It’s a free comparable alternative to Mindmanager and small enough to fit on a flash drive. Thought I’d share my top tips for drafting reports.
The concept of mindmapping is a great way to sort thoughts into more coherent patterns. The great thing [...]
In brief: HIPS, renewables, timber and Arup
I’ve upgraded the blog to WP 2.1. This won’t make a difference to most of you readers, but the interface for my input is much easier, with word check built in! Yay.
I’ve finished crashing through the backlog of blogs from the last week. Lots of interesting goings on:
Yet another consultation (pdf, 26 pages) [...]
Passionate for your work or your company?
Kathy Sierra is one of my regular reads on management and productivity. She has a blinder of a post here which everyone should read. I agree with virtually everything she says. In particular I like her two opposing lists.
I think we’ve all met a few of these characters in our time (the overkeen career engineers):
Passionate about [...]
Caspar in Leeds due for demolition
CASPAR (city centre apartments for single people at affordable rents), a development of 42 apartments on North St in Leeds (just opposite Hansa’s Gujarati curry house) is now to be demolished. The Yorkshire Post have the latest developments here. Guardian report here and Treehugger comment here.
It’s a cautionary tale. What lessons are [...]
Adapt or die…
via:: Fred Wilson
Here’s a nice depressing start to the week (having just come back from holiday feeling slightly fragile anyway having devoured Heat, Cradle to Cradle and Collapse - cheery holiday reading - not!). A report from the IPCC available here (pdf, 21 pages):
The understanding of anthropogenic warming and cooling influences on climate [...]
Energy efficiency, not renewables, key to UK’s carbon targets
edit: this was originally posted 22 January, but I fear there may have been a glitch and it has been marked as private. Odd. Anyway, here it is again…
Spotted via the IET headlines, this article in the Telegraph highlights the findings of a report in Energy Policy in December which criticises the fragmented approach the [...]
Round up of stuff
I’m in a really annoying situation where I have opened a load of tabs in Firefox of interesting stuff I want to blog in detail, but I have no time to do so. So they sit there and mock me. In an effort to shut them down and clear my conscience, here’s a [...]
