Communicating sustainable solutions for the built environment
What caught my eye today, January 15th: Weather Data – For use with Google Earth – loads of weather data in EnergyPlus weather format ? 295 locations in the USA, 71 locations in Canada, and more than 800 locations in 100 other countries throughout the world. Lyons-Dubai – via BLDGBLOG, news that “The Arab emirate […]
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What caught my eye today, January 13th: Best-of-Breed RSS Readers Now Free – Newsgator is now FREE. There’s a strong possibility I will switch from Google Reader in 2008 (which usurped Bloglines during 2007)… what percentage of school buildings approved by his Department were built to the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (a) very […]
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Sustainability (the word) is suffering from chronic overuse. I propose we stop using the word sustainability and instead actually say what we mean. I’m by no means the first person to suggest this. James Evison, aka The Foreman at Contract Journal said the same thing last month. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating cynicism […]
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A bit early to be calling it a day for Xmas, but I am currently up to my eyeballs in learning Spanish – I have homework to do and everything! Normal service will resume in the New Year; expect blogging to begin again on Monday 7th January. I am endeavouring to clear out all my […]
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I have BREEAM set as a key word in Google, Technorati, Topix, del.icio.us and Bloglines – if anyone writes BREEAM on the internet, I get notification of it (hey – you all know what a geek I am by now). Which is how I found this OT (off-topic) discussion on BREEAM at SingleTrack magazine. I […]
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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 […]
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Now I know I am probably the only person out of the 17,000+ CIBSE members who uses RSS and I have complained in the past about the lack of feeds for the news area of the CIBSE site. But never let it be said that I complain without seeking solutions. To the right of the […]
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For anyone who was avidly addicted to my job alerts column (on the right), I’m afraid I’ve deleted it. The job market for BREEAM is currently at saturation – if you are BREEAM qualified, there are tens, if not hundreds of opportunities listed on other websites. And any exciting opportunities tend to come about by […]
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It’s been quite a year, but Elemental is one year old today. And to celebrate here’s some stats. My top 5 most popular posts are: What exactly is a zero carbon home then Gordon? In brief: HIPS, renewables, timber and Arup Is this the future for energy generation – magnets? Caspar in Leeds due for […]
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