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
Tag Archives: CSR
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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Have we picked the low hanging fruit of Sustainable Construction?
The mid 90′s saw my first involvement with sustainable construction, as Business Improvement Manager, setting up strategy and awareness programmes for Mowlem Construction, driven it should be noted to address client bid requirements in PFI and Prime Contracting. At that … Continue reading
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Tagged #GVisChat, accommodationalist, circular economy, climate, collaborative working, construction, CSR, environment, green build, Green Vision, Healthy Product Declaration Standard, ISO 14001, Living Building Challenge, mindfulness, Route to Zero, sustainability, sustainability policy, zero
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Innovation Voucher Provision
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is making Innovation Vouchers available worth up to £5000 for construction and built environment companies. Applications are due to open on the 10th of December and close on the 23rd of January 2013. Fairsnape in association with IBE-Partnership is delighted … Continue reading
Posted in benchmarking, best practice, fairsnape, improvement, social media, sustainability, winning work
Tagged benchmarking, bidding, BIM, collaborative working, Construction Carbon, CSR, Customer Management, EFQM, innovation vouchers, ISO14001, last planner, lean construction, PAS 2030, social media, Strategy, sustainability
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Future ISO14001 revisions to include supply chain and CSR?
ISO 14001, the international environmental management system standard, is shortly to undergo its second revision. The revised standard, which is expected to be published in 2015, will operate into the mid-2020s The EMAS Helpdesk on behalf the European Commission’s Sustainable Production … Continue reading
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Tagged 14001, CSR, EMAS, environmental management system, ISO 14001, ISO 26001, supply chain management
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On Patagonia
Since the early ’80′s Patagonia has featured in my life, initially in respect of climbing hardware and outdoor clothing and latterly as a real source of CSR, Corporate Social Responsible inspiration. I recall my first purchase, and a still a … Continue reading
Posted in CSR
Tagged CSR, Green Vision, Patagonia, sustainability, Vincent Stanley, wilderness, Yvon Chouinard
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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 built environment, comment, CSR, green business, literature, nature, profit from sustainability, resilience, route2zero, sustainability
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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Construction CSR Makeover: can construction learn from Patagonia?
CSR and Transparency seem to be linked buzz words in the world of sustainability at the moment. Fuelled perhaps by an increase in CSR generally, a growing awareness of social media ‘whistleblowing’, the potential of the Social Value Act and a … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon, constructco2, construction, CSR, Patagonia, social media, Social Value Act, SourceMap, supply chain, transparency
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Improving Bid success through construction #CSR
Is your PQQ or Bid success rate dopping? Are you loosing out to competitors and not sure why? You could do no better than to get along to one of the numerous best practice or knowledge exchange events such as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Asda, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Green Vision, PQQ, Walmart
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Sustainable futures require collective power of unconventional partnerships
Early today I came across this excellent quote* from Hannah Jones, Nike’s global head of sustainability and innovation: “We believe that the innovations required to create the future won’t come from a single source. Not from science. Not from technology. … Continue reading →