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: energy
Green Deal November
*Updated 11/11/11* Seems Green Deal is high on my agenda for November! Here is a round up on ‘happenings’ and events: On the 2nd I attended an interesting Green Skills in construction event hosted by teh Guardian. I blogged here on the Great … Continue reading
Posted in energy, events, green buildings
Tagged be2camp, BIM, Green Deal, GVis2011, LCBPC
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ISO 50001 Energy Management Standard issued
ISO has issued ISO 50001, a new standard for energy management systems that aims to help organisations establish systems and processes to improve their energy performance, including efficiency and consumption. It will of course be of particular interest to facilities … Continue reading
Posted in energy, facilities management
Tagged facilities management, ISO 14001, ISO 50001
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Counting construction carbons with ConstructCO2
This blog has reported on numerous occasions (eg here and here) on the need to measure and improve carbon emissions from construction activities separately from that of the building itself or the facility in use. And the need for an … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, carbon calculator, carbon footprint, comment, construction, energy, improvement, innovation, News, sustainability, transport
Tagged be2camp, benchmarking, BREEAM, carbon calculator, carbon footprint, constructco2, CSH, ecobuild, evolution-ip, KPI, Pachube, Paul Morrell
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a transition view of the uk transition housing plan
A welcomed and important perspective on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was posted by Rob Hopkins on the Transition blog: After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there are a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, housing, politics, refurbishment, resilience, sustainability, technology, transport
Tagged transition towns, zero, zero carbon
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on passivhaus challenges
Su Butcher has posted an excellent and very useful comment on PassivHaus being about saving energy over on her blog, Just Practicing. I did comment there in brief but here is a more detailed response. Relationship with Code 6 and Carbon Definition As … Continue reading
CBI low-carbon economy roadmap to 2020
For the first time the UK’s leading business group has set out its vision for a low-carbon economy in a series of climate change roadmaps. The roadmaps, called ‘Going the Distance’, set out a timetable of action to ensure carbon emissions … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, carbon footprint, comment, energy, News, route2zero, sustainability, transport
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musing on a carbon 1:5:200
Reading many items and articles on the carbon issues that the built environment faces in the coming years, I have jotted a number of random thoughts in google notebook, which may one day be useful ‘spin’ for example: …almost every … Continue reading
Posted in 1:5:200, carbon, comment, design, energy, facilities management, sustainability, technology
Tagged facilities management, zero carbon
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facilities carbon management
Indication that carbon management is becoming a key element of the facilities management role is evident through the Guardian article Cut and Run which focuses on UCLAN’s excellence performance in obtaining the Carbon Trust Standard. The Carbon Trust says that universities … Continue reading
Posted in comment, energy, facilities management, Local News, sustainability, transport
Tagged facilities management
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defining zero carbon
As a post on this blog noted at the end of last year, the definition of zero carbon buildings is currently under consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government. I am in full agreement with Casey over at … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, facilities management, futures, green buildings, legislation, links, quality, route2zero, sustainability, technology
Tagged DCLG, facilities management, zero, zero carbon
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#tweetchats … observations + how to
What is a tweetchat? In my view: a global online brainstorm: a fast paced collection of expert opinion, links, references, questioning, learning but above all sharing around the theme of the chat. Dont attempt to make too much sense of it … Continue reading →