More clever marketing from Kingspan
Kingspan Access Floors has just launched a new recycling programme so that onsite offcuts from flooring systems (between 2.5 and 5 per cent of net floor area) are returned to the Hull plant for shredding.
This machine separates steel from chipboard. The steel is then recycled, while the chipboard is returned to particle board manufacturer Sonae [...]
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UKTI seeks green projects to promote British expertise abroad
The UK Trade & Investment (UKTI), the Government’s international business development organisation, wants your sustainable projects to promote British green construction expertise abroad.
UKTI wants to create a database of completed, ongoing and planned sustainable projects - all sizes, sectors and locations - to attract inward investment and help UK companies with business overseas.
To submit your [...]
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Soak it up with Sponge
The Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Department of Communities and Local Government have launched a consultation on a heat and energy saving strategy. Sponge, a network of young built environment professionals interested in sustainable development, have organised the following events to gather opinions:
London
When: 6.30 - 8.30pm, Wednesday 29th April 2009
Where: The Blue [...]
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Alsop’s Peckham Library not so Stirling
Will Alsop’s 2000 Stirling Prize winning Peckham Library is wasting energy left right and centre according to Southwark News’ John Pendergast. The journalist took a tour around the building and surrounding square with eco-auditor Donnachadh McCarthy.
Southwark Council, the client for the library, is seemingly ignoring its own advice as the council has posted a number [...]
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The concrete industry at Lancaster House
I know the Concrete Centre puts on lots of good events for architects but I was surprised to find any at all at last week’s launch of the concrete industry’s first Sustainability Performance Report at Lancaster House. The combination of the gilded venue, a welcome from Jonathon Porritt and the champagne reception drew a good crowd, [...]
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Will we ever know if ecobuildings really work?
The flyer advertising the cancelled POE seminar
Next week’s seminar on post-occupancy evaluation at Oxford Brookes has been cancelled due to lack of interest. I’d been looking forward to visiting the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development and especially to meeting the people behind the recently established knowledge transfer network with Architype. The project is monitoring several of Architype’s recently [...]
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Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative (SSCI)
Just back from my third trip to Edinburgh to take part in the Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCCI) jury. SSCI encourages the development of very low or zero carbon schemes which are not only green but also well-designed. The field of 68 submissions- a good turnout in this economic climate - has been narrowed to a shortlist of exemplar projects which [...]
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How to be GOOD and save water
GOOD is an interesting website / magazine / blog by a group of individuals, businesses and NGOs exploring what ‘good’ is in sustainability terms (note clever use of .is suffix in web address).
Their ‘how much water do you use’ diagram is a fun but serious take on water consumption and unlike most includes ‘virtual’ use (i.e. [...]
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Government told: build green, not grey
Natural England and the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) have urged the government to divert infrastructure spending towards creating greener cities. In a recent report, CABE claims that funding more ‘green infrastructure’ could help tackle the recession and combat climate change. CABE explains that by maintaining natural elements within a town, such as trees, parks [...]
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Poop power and other novelties
This list of ten innovative energy saving technologies includes harnessing the people power of pedestrians and another one that will certainly make my daughter smile: San Francisco collects pet poop for recycling into biofuel. See number 8 on the list.
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