Archive for May, 2008
Egan’s thoughts 10 years on
Building have the full transcript of Egan’s speech at the Common’s reception here, and I would urge everyone to read the full thing, but I’ve pulled out my favourite bits below. The press have jumped on his comments about the housebuilders (probably because they make the best headlines) but there is some other juicy stuff [...]
Developments in Degree Days
Readers may have missed this comment posted recently by Martin B, so I’ve reprinted it in full here:
Another belated follow up on your post (original post here): we just recently launched Degree Days.net, a free site for generating degree days: http://www.degreedays.net/
Since writing that article about problems with degree days, many of which are caused by [...]
A welcome end to peripatetic blogging
Firstly, apologies for the hourly del.icio.us posts - I think I’ve fixed the problem now and there should only be one a day now at most. We shall see…
Broadband services have resumed and I’m back on my old computer. After a year of being mothballed, it’s behaving remarkably well and I’m poking about [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
800-CEO-READ Blog: Gladwell 3 - New Gladwell book due (in the US only?) in November. Loved Tipping Point, less so Blink, so will look forward to this one…
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Top 15 NASA’s Plants That Can Save Your Life! - The best way of getting rid of indoor air toxins - Softpedia - Great article covering the NASA houseplant research. This has been kicking around for years. Off to outfit my home office with 2 of the best, so had [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
Foster + Partners completes a new tower for Willis in the City of London - Building gains a BREEAM excellent.
Turkey’s Green Building Association focuses on standards - Turkish Daily News May 13, 2008 - Turkey considering using BREEAM to define green building.
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C# Postcode to OS Coordinates - doogal.co.uk - I've been looking for an app to do this forever! Especially good teamed with Editgrid's Grid2Map add-on which doesn't work with UK postcodes. Still need manual input, but better than previous methods I've tried…
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Google SketchUp - Go Green - Many people use Google SketchUp in the early stages of their designs, when decisions they make can have the greatest potential impact on the way their buildings perform. We wanted to create a place to showcase some of the innovative work that folks are do
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What I’ve been reading about:
US to revise green assessment system - Building - The battle between BREEAM and LEED continues, with LEED expected to introduce minimum standards for water and energy in the November revisions
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What I’ve been reading about:
Design Builder - (Relatively) new kids on the DSM software block, 30 day free trial, uses the DOE Energy Plus engine. Anyone got any experience - good or bad?
Task force gives housing the green light - "This is not about dumbing down or abandoning the concept of zero carbon. This is [...]
