Archive for May, 2007
iSBEM version 2.0
Firstly, is anyone still struggling along with the Access version of iSBEM? Or is everyone using either Hevacomp, IES or TAS? Let me know in the comments.
If you haven’t had a tinker with iSBEM yet, there is a new version out now, although some problems have been identified running it on Acess 2000.
I haven’t had [...]
Wind resources
The CSE (Centre for Sustainable Energy) have quite a few new documents on wind power available at their website here.
Delivering Community Benefits from Wind Energy Development: A Toolkit looks a useful tool (pdf, 46 pages).
Carbon offsets - CSE are against them
Joining in on the carbon offset debate, CSE (Centre for Sustainable Energy) have made their position clear:
“Carbon offsetting has no part to play in an effective strategy to reduce carbon emissions in the UK.”
This is in response to the government’s current consultation on creating a more transparent carbon offsetting industry. CSE’s full response can be [...]
Allies or competition?
Strange things going on in the industry. I note that CIBSE can now count EC Harris as members. EC Harris would generally be seen as allies of building services engineers, being primarily project managers, quantity surveyors and land development experts. It’s a trend I see more and more. At the larger end [...]
CABE’s footprints
Following on from the Think conference on 3 May 2007, CABE have issued details of their various footprints. Good to see the old standard ecological footprint making an appearance again - carbon footprints had eclipsed them for a while then:
CABE’s carbon footprint is 503 tonnes a year, or 4.6 tonnes per person. CABE’s ecological footprint, [...]
Upcoming event
From the British Expertise website:
British Expertise, working with RICS, RIBA, APM and others, is running a Sustainability conference in London on Tuesday, 15 May 2007. Sustainability is increasing seen as the main driver in development and planning initiatives and is emerging as a fundamental principle to create a new kind of built environment: one that meets [...]
A little book of change
A useful guide (pdf, 20 pages) from the Business Resource Efficiency & Waste Programme (BREW) in the Northwest
England’s Northwest is a leader in supporting businesses, organisations and individuals to reduce their impact on climate change and improve overall environmental performance within organisations.
This booklet will give you the contacts and tools to enable you to access [...]
OJEU by RSS
No longer do you need to rely on a central marketing department to scan the OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union) for you - you can have it delivered to your inbox via RSS . Tenders Electronic Daily (or TED) is available in 23 languages. Feeds include Construction and Real Estate.
If you haven’t yet [...]
I’m not really stalking Matt Grace…
Looks like Matt Grace has moved to Enermodal Engineering (a Canadian company) in Calgary:
Leading UK Sustainability Expert Joins Enermodal Calgary: Matt Grace, B.Eng., M.Sc., C.Env.
Matt Grace brings to [...]
BEEP, BEEP…
A new one on me - BEEP stands for BOMA Energy Efficiency Program (and BOMA stands for Building Owners and Managers Association). Not content with all these acronyms, they also have a scheme called the GREEN (Green Resource Energy and Environment Network).
Stateside FM focussed, there could be some useful [...]
