martin brown
Improvement advocate in the built environment with a passion for social media, wildness, music, mountains, walking, cycling, astronomy, geostuff, outdoor, inspirations, dark skies, connectivity, edge of chaos, improvement, natural environment, CSR, built environment, virtual worlds, resilience, community enterprise ... and more
Category Archives: built environment
Architects and Green Deal: greater ability to improve public health than medical professionals
‘Architects have a greater ability to improve public health than medical professionals’ A provocative statement made by physician Dr. Claudia Miller, assistant dean at the University of Texas School of Medicine, at a recent healthy building materials panel moderated and … Continue reading
Green Vision for Social Media at Green Build Expo
Be2Camp returns to Greenbuild Expo in May with Green Vision. This year’s session, taking place on 8th May at Manchester Central from 1pm, will be the most exciting yet, with an amazing line-up of speakers (see below for programme). GreenBuild … Continue reading
Introducing the Living Building Challenge in the UK
It was a real treat to introduce the public lecture from Amanda Sturgeon as part of the UK Living Building Collaborative launch at the Interface showroom in London last night. Here are my introduction notes … Good evening and a … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, green buildings, sustainability
Tagged Amanda Sturgeon, fairsnape, Green Vision, Interface, LBC, Living Building Challenge
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So, what have we done for nature?
Having listened to Tony Jupiter’s “What has nature done for us” podcast talk at the RSA over the weekend, my son Tom brought this simply brilliant animation to my attention – “what have we done to nature” … MAN from Steve … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, nature, sustainability
Tagged built environment, nature, RSA, Steve Cutts, Tony Jupiter
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BIM and FM who needs to educate whom?
Another resounding success for the CKE ThinkBIM series today that explored Building Information Management and Facilities Management and raised acutely pertinent issues and questions for future debate. There certainly was much learning and sharing, from Deborah Rowland’s keynote, (Cabinet Office … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, facilities management
Tagged 1:5:200, BIM, CKE, construction, design, facilities management, feedbackfeedforward, FIM, FM, FMSystems, Integration, soft landings, thinkBIM
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Heros and Texts for a future Built Environment based on #CSR
“suddenly the air smells much greener now” Listening to ‘These Streets’, lyrics by Paolo Nutini summed up the brilliant, inspiring Green Vision conference in Leeds – exploring CSR within the built environment. A mix of talks, presentations, round table discussions … Continue reading
Posted in sustainability, comment, built environment, literature, green business, nature, route2zero, CSR, profit from sustainability, resilience
Tagged 2052, Andy Ainsworth, Anita Roddick, be2camp, Biomimicry, built environment, Claire Walker, construction, CSR, Danone, David and Claire Hieatt, Dee Hock, E O Wilson, Eddie Murphy, Eden Brukman, environment, fairsnape, Faye Jenkins, Gary Hirshberg, Green Vision, GRI, Guardian Sustainable Business, GVis2012, Howies, InterfaceFLOR, Janine Benyus, Jeffrey Swartz, John Elkington, John Randers, Living Building, Mark Warner, martin brown, mel starrs, natural capital, Paolo Nutini, Patagonia, Paul Hawken, Paula Widdowson, pecha kucha, Pedro Pablo Cardoso-Castro, ray anderson, Rick Hamilton, Tamara Bergkamp, Timberland, Visa, Yvon Chouinard, Zeronauts
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We have no business applying the word sustainable to business activity until …
Much has been written and discussed around the use of the word ‘sustainability’ and indeed, within the built environment has become over an used term, we are seemingly littered with sustainable construction, design and fm, with sustainable products, techniques and … Continue reading
Green Deal Opportunities for Industry
At last a good, readable and comprehensive guide to Green Deal from the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Buildings (EEPB) and the Construction Products Association The Guide is aimed at manufacturers, distributors, main contractors and installers, from individuals to SMEs to large … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, construction, green buildings, housing
Tagged cpa, eepb, greendeal
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Could built environment leaders cut it in a digital world?
An excellent Communique newsfeed from Nancy Settle-Murphy this morning, at looking at effectiveness of leaders in a virtual world. It strikes me this is a lesson perhaps for built environment and construction leaders as we move into a communication era that … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, leadership, social media, virtual worlds
Tagged BIM, built environment, digital, leaders, leadership, Nancy Settle-Murphy, social media, technology
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#PPPConf2013 – Industry Day to Explore Public Private Partnerships
Cover it Live blog for Days 1 and 2 now live here Are PPP’s the way forward for construction, energy, health, education, infrastructure and wellbeing projects? UCLAN are hosting an industry day with industry and academic thought leaders on the … Continue reading →