Communicating sustainable solutions for the built environment
BIM (Building Information Modelling) has long been the way I think the industry ought to work. It just seems so logical to me. The premise is simple – build an intelligent 3D model of a building which can be exported and manipulated by various designers, including architects, structural engineers and building services engineers. This model […]
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In case you may have missed it, Architectural Record has started a blog, and it’s actually quite good. Catching up with the archives, I found this gem on open plan offices. Having been on the receiving end of some less than stellar office re-organisations and also involved (somewhat indirectly in the actual design decisions, but […]
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The blogosphere have been saying it since day one, now the industry events circuit is catching up. CIBSE have announced The Great Refurbishment Event: Making refurbishment a green opportunity scheduled for 24 October 2007 in London. And in case we need reminding why existing buildings are key, Cyril Sweett estimate that by 2050, 60% of […]
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The AECB appears to be realigning it’s Carbon Lite program with CSH. Press release in the latest newsletter states: At the heart of the programme are three Steps to improved energy performance in buildings, which provide robust solutions to the CO2 targets at levels 4, 5 and 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes. These […]
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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 […]
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I came across this article (10 pages, pdf) from 1996 via RICS (Royal Institiute of Chartered Surveyors). The article is “Improving the quality of conceptual structural design: A neural network approach“, which no doubt sounds very dull to most readers. Glutton for punishment, I forged ahead and found some nuggets in there (I’m actually looking […]
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HEEPI (Higher Education Environmental Performance Improvement) have released a position paper on “Sustainable Laboratories for Universities and Colleges – Lessons from America and the Pharmaceutical Sector” (.doc, 29 pages). Although not a design code, it has some useful observations which will interest those involved in laboratory design, and outlines the Labs21 approach. Some points I […]
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edit: this was originally posted 22 January, but I fear there may have been a glitch and it has been marked as private. Odd. Anyway, here it is again… Spotted via the IET headlines, this article in the Telegraph highlights the findings of a report in Energy Policy in December which criticises the fragmented approach […]
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