Archive for June, 2007
Short blog hiatus
I’m currently* in China and may not be able to access my blog as it’s hosted with my own domain name. If that is the case, I hope to be back blogging by end of July.
In the meantime, check out all the links I have down the side - a host of informative people blogging [...]
HIPs delayed till 1 August
I’m a bit very late in commenting on this, but the inevitable delay to HIPs has been announced. The government’s phased roll requires HIPs for properties with four or more bedrooms from 1 August, followed by three-bed homes once 2,000 energy assessors have qualified, and all homes when 3,000 have qualified.
On 22 May NHER made [...]
Dilbert’s Green Consultancy
I won’t reproduce the cartoons themselves here (Scott Adams doesn’t approve) but for the next few weeks you should be able to see his take on green consultancy here, here and here. Keep an eye out for more in the next few days - he’s on a roll. Very amusing.
Green buildings in India
Found this great little article by M. BHUVANASUNDAR, chairman, Indian Institute of Architects, Coimbatore Chapter, Coimbatore in The Hindu on green buildings. Two definitions of green to add to the arsenal:
The voluntary pursuit of any activity, which encompasses concern for energy efficiency, environment, water conservation, use of recycled products and renewable energy is defined as green.
and
Green [...]
Contradictions abound
Found this article which highlights the quandary we find ourselves in when building green offices:
Linea has also been designed to achieve a Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment (BREEAM) rating of Excellent.
“Its BREEAM rating will also be of significant appeal to occupiers as green building issues become an ever increasing factor in building selection.”
However, in the [...]
People and Planet University Green League
Using 8 criteria, universities have been ranked on Environmental performance.
Leeds Met comes out top with 85% of energy coming from renewables, Queens in Belfast is joint 5th, and Leeds Uni is joint 8th. Bradford gets a 2.1 with joint 16th place and 59% of waste recycled.
Jonathon Porritt starts blogging
There’s a few folk who don’t blog, but I wish they did. And now one more does - Jonathon Porritt’s musings can be found here. I also found Tony Jupiter of FOE via JP, blogging over at comment is free, the guardian’s collection of hosted blogs.
Now if Bill McDonough and Bill Dunster would join them, [...]
Bits and pieces
Catching up on gossip, I have come across the following highlights:
Low Carbon Kid has a hilarious parody of carbon offsetting here (fart jokes aplenty). He then goes on in later posts to do a dressing down of the new Energy White Paper (he’s very anti-nuclear with some well reasoned arguments).
LCC can earn 10% more than fellow [...]
Academic Survey: Part L2A/NCM Software
I’m back, from outer Mongolia (literally). Whilst I’ve been incommunicado for the past few weeks, I gather there have been interesting developments with HIPS. I’m off to catch up on all the industry gossip - more comment to follow no doubt.
In the meantime, Rokia Raslan at Bartlett has a short academic survey on Part L2A [...]
