Underwhelmed
November 22nd, 2007
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 carbon aggressively) and had some targets specific to refurbishment. Better than nothing I suppose…
Thats like stating that all Fords cars will run on unleaded fuel by 2010.
I suggest that many business may well find themselves being left behind as sustainability becomes mainstream.
Having spent a morning cold calling architects, at least 30% stated that they ‘don’t really do sustainability’ in their practice.
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