Archive for March, 2007
IET publish energy factsheets
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Spotted on the IET website, a series of really useful basic factsheets on CHP, Fuel Cells, Nuclear Power, Solar Power, Wind Power, Tidal Power, Hydroelectric Power and Biomass.
BREEAM for Schools - status so far
Have I mentioned before how much I love Theyworkforyou.com? Yes, I believe I have. Pinging into my inbox today a great Q&A regarding schools and BREEAM:
David Willets asks:
how many schools have completed the BREEAM schools assessment process; and what rating they have achieved?
Jim Knight replies:
The numbers of schools that have registered for BREEAM Schools certification [...]
HEEPI benchmarks for student residences
There’s some great work coming out of HEEPI (Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement). I wrote about CEBenchbuild back in November and sustainable laboratories back in February.
They have now released some research on student residences here (.doc, 10 pages):
While the vast majority of buildings submitted were fossil fuel heated buildings, many universities still have [...]
G-Econ visualisation of global economic activity
I love graphical representations and during one of my ever frequent forays into the land of environmental economics (which still continues to intrigue me) I came across this model attributed to William Nordhaus whose work was used in the Stern Review. You can download a massive 87MB avi file or watch a rather jerky version [...]
More housekeeping…
I’ve lost my rss feeds. Very remiss of me, but it means no rss feeds or emails have gone out since Wednesday. I just need to figure out what I’ve changed to make them disappear. Apologies in advance if this makes the site look a little odd at times over the weekend…
Philip Pullman’s battle with planning
Fantastic interview with the guy who wrote possible the best kids books ever (His Dark Materials), Philip Pullman outlining his battle with the planners when trying to put solar panels on his roof. You’ve got to love anyone who can pepper an interview with phrases such as ‘craven liars’ (pointed at politicians). [...]
EPC and HIPs - market forces?
Yvette Cooper estimates we need between 2,500 and 4,500 qualified assessors. She sets out how much setting up HIPs has cost here (£11.7m total). Let’s remind ourselves why HIPs and EPC exist:
The Housing Act 2004 requires that a mandatory Home Information Pack (HIP) is put together on every home that comes to the [...]
All the usual suspects
A nice placeholder piece in Building with various green ‘gurus’. By placeholder, I mean it will be interesting to come back to in a few years time and see if things have moved on. I suspect the gurus all would have said pretty much the same things if asked the same questions 5 years ago.
What’s interesting [...]
Innovative recruitment tactics
This is doing the rounds of the blogosphere at the minute - a computer games company trying to recruit/poach staff by finding them via their blogs and then flattering them with a highly personal message on an iPod shuffle.
Two messages here - recruiting is really hard in our current climate - reminds me of the [...]
Comments and Feedblitz
Apologies to all the folks who tried to leave comments over the past few days. Something went wrong with Feedblitz (which powers my email subscriptions) and it was redirecting comments to there. I’ve disabled the email subscription button on the side until I can work out how to fix it. If any [...]
