martin brown
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Category Archives: carbon
The Carbon Cycle: Transition Event
In 2006 Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska. Along the way she talked to ordinary Americans about their views on climate change and saw for herself some of what’s at stake. In 2012 she published a book … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, cycling, events, literature, sustainability
Tagged carbon, co2, cycle, Garstang, Kate Rawles, The Carbon Cycle, transition
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Construction Localism – how do you compare against benchmark?
Construction ‘localism’ is currently high on the agenda. And set to grow in importance. There is, rightly, much talk and focus on localism within construction projects and frameworks at the moment, based on the principle of keeping project spend local. … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, procurement, sustainability
Tagged benchmark, benchmarking, built environment improvement, carbon emission, constructco2, construction, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, environment, fairsnape, footprint, frameworks, localism, Route to Zero, Social Media Construction, sustainability, sustainable construction
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ISO14051: Turning waste to gold with ISO standard for environmental management accounting
With the proposed demise of Site Waste Management Plans SWMP under the ‘Greenest Government Ever’ red tape plans, could a new-ish ISO standard that puts costs to the impacts identified under ISO 14001 provide direction, guidance or framework for construction … Continue reading
#GreenSkills a serious barrier
The RAE (Royal Academy of Engineering) have today published their report: Heat: Degrees of Comfort, Options for heating home in a low carbon economy. There is no possibility that the UK can meet its 2050 target for CO2 emissions without a fundamental change … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, comment, green buildings, Green Deal, sustainability
Tagged carbon economy, co2 emissions, Green Deal, green skills, Heating, RAE, royal academy of engineering
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Half of Multinationals to Choose Suppliers Based on CO2 Emissions
Why monitor construction carbons: Shortly after writing a comment to a linkedin group on the importance of measuring and understanding construction carbons, through tools such as ConstructCO2, indications of increased focus on carbon performance popped up in a tweet (via Julie … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, carbon footprint, CSR, sustainability
Tagged carbon, co2, constructco2, supply chain management
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What is Green Deal: the hard, the soft, the CSR and the terminology.
Just what is Green Deal? Associated with my support for organisations developing strategies and implementation plans for ’transition’ to eco refit or green deal work, the following documents are proving very useful indeed. Getting Ready for Green Deal (Fairsnape and PBEnergy) Is … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, CSR, green buildings, green business, legislation, sustainability
Tagged CSR, eco-refit, Green Deal, sustainability. green build
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Towards low carbon construction IGT Report: Government Response
Snippets from todays launch of the Governments Response to the industry’s Innovation Growth Team Report: Business Minister Mark Prisk said: “An efficient, effective and profitable construction industry is at the heart of any growing economy. “Meeting the UK’s commitment to … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, politics, route2zero
Tagged carbon, constructco2, construction, IGT
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ConstructCO2 now records zero carbon travel
ConstructCO2, our construction carbon calculator now measures ‘zero’ carbon travel to and from job sites. Recording and increasing the travel from managers, visitors and operatives who get to site under their own steam (eg walking and cycling) or via car … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, carbon calculator, carbon footprint
Tagged car share, carsharing, constructco2, CSR, cycling, green travel, walking
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Natural Mossland Carbon Capture Scheme – putting a ‘natural’ cost to carbon?
Not to be confused with carbon offsetting. If we are serious about moving to low and zero carbon construction then this Mosslands conservation project looks like a good approach to capturing all those tricky CO2 emissions from your site or … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, carbon calculator, comment, construction, off setting
Tagged co2, constructco2, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, low carbon construction, mosslands, peatlands
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A low carbon diet for construction boards
Question for you:who on your board is really championing sustainability and the low carbon agenda? Board members, as Lucy Marcus reminded us at construcTALKs, need to balance continuity with change, to embrace the changes in technology. From my experience in (small-medium) construction organizations, boards are … Continue reading →