Archive for November 22nd, 2007
Underwhelmed
Bovis Lend Lease has pledged to build all projects worth £5m or more to BREEAM ‘Very Good’ standard by 2010.
I’m finding myself underwhelmed by this. I would be more impressed if they committed to carbon reductions (it’s easy enough to get a ‘Very Good’ on a reasonably sited new build project without necessarily addressing [...]
Most credible environmental assessment method?
This is woefully out of date, but the report is still worth a read.
According to the General Services Administration (GSA) in the US, LEED beats BREEAM, CASBEE, GBTools and Green Globes US, as reported in ACHR News on 12 October 2006 and USGBC 27 September 2006. Reasons given are:
LEED applies to all GSA project [...]
Tinkering again…
Can’t quite find a Wordpress theme I’m happy with - think of this as an interim measure. At least most of the widgets seem to be working and I’ve got rid of the white space at the top of the page.
My biggest problem was trying to remember how to get into net2ftp - thank goodness [...]
